Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, FRESHFORD ROAD, COUNTY HOSPITAL (ST LUKE'S GENERAL HOSPITAL)

Name: DOWNES, JOSEPH VINCENT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, FRESHFORD ROAD, COUNTY HOSPITAL (ST LUKE'S GENERAL HOSPITAL)
Date: 1932-42
Nature: New hospital in International Modern style for County Board of Health. JVD appointed architect, Dec1932.  Presents plans and specifications to Board, Aug 1933. Total cost estimated at £103,000 to £105,000.
Refs: Irish Times, 10 Dec 1932, 31 Aug 1933;   IB 74, 17 Dec 1932, 1136; 78, 17,31 Oct 1936, 950,996; 79, 6 Mar 1937, 191(illus.); 80, 8 jAN 1938, 35; 81, 16 Sep 1939, 801; 82, 13 Apr 1940, 248; 84, 26 Sep 1942, 354(illus.); 98, 19 May 1956, 457(illus.); drawing of main entrance exh. RHA 1936, no. 294, axonometric view exh. 1937, no. 243, drawing of chapel exh. 1942, no. 250; photo. of chapel in JRIAI (1943), 18; Centenary Celebration of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and Conference of The Royal Institute of British Architects 21st to 24th June 1939, 61(illus.);  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009),38,39(illus.),42.

Name: ROBSON, HARRY STANLEY
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, FRESHFORD ROAD, COUNTY HOSPITAL (ST LUKE'S GENERAL HOSPITAL)
Date: 1936
Nature: By Downes & Meehan but mainly the work of HSR.
Refs: Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 147

Name: KELLY, THOMAS [2]
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, FRESHFORD ROAD, COUNTY HOSPITAL (ST LUKE'S GENERAL HOSPITAL)
Date: 1939
Nature: Heating system & hot water service.
Refs: IB 81, 16 Sep 1939, 802

Name: CAMPBELL, LAURENCE T. *
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, FRESHFORD ROAD, COUNTY HOSPITAL (ST LUKE'S GENERAL HOSPITAL)
Date: 1943
Nature: Statue of St Luke over entrance.
Refs: Sketch model exh. RHA 1943, no. 328

Name: DOWNES, JOSEPH VINCENT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, FRESHFORD ROAD, COUNTY HOSPITAL (ST LUKE'S GENERAL HOSPITAL)
Date: 1943a
Nature: Chapel.
Refs: Illus. in RIAI Year Book (1943 & 1944), 18.

Name: DOWNES & MEEHAN
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, FRESHFORD ROAD, COUNTY HOSPITAL (ST LUKE'S GENERAL HOSPITAL)
Date: 1963
Nature: New nurses' home.
Refs: IB 105, 20 Jul 1963, 584