Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CROZIER TESTIMONIAL

Name: PAPWORTH, CHARLES WILLIAM
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CROZIER TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1861
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1863, no. 499

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CROZIER TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1861-62
Nature: Winner of competition, announced 1861, for design of column to support statue by Kirk. Contractor: Graham, Belfast, who submitted tender of £240 'without bears' and £274 'with bears'. Completed April 1862.
Refs: RHA 1862, no. 489; DB 3, 15 Nov 1861, 686; 4, 15 Jan,1 Feb,15 Apr,15 Jul 1862, 15,34,96,97(illus.),175; B 20, 8 Feb 1862, 104; Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 25; IALE, 32; Brett, 39

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CROZIER TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1862
Nature: Statue of Crozier and polar bears by JRK. Memorial designed by W.J. Barre.
Refs: Statue of Crozier exh. RHA 1862, no. 480, also one polar bear, 1863, no. 501; DB 3, 15 Nov 1861, 686; 4, 15 Apr 1862, 96;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 174, Fig.242.