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1776 – Tervoe House, Kilkeedy, Co. Limerick

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Architect: Built in 1776 by Colonel W.T. Monsell MP on the site of an earlier house. Demolished in the 1950s. Photograph from the Irish Tourist Association Survey 1943-44. Related Posts: 1848 – Castle Oliver / Clonodfoy Castle, Co. Limerick 1781 – Ash Hill Towers, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick 1813 – Mountshannon House, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick 1813 [...]

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1848 – Clonodfoy Gateway, Co. Limerick

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Architect: G.F. Jones Extravagent gateway and lodge by George Fowler Jones to accompany the grand baronial castle he designed for the Oliver-Gascoigne sisters. Quite a severe design, and quite brooding in comparison to the pink castle. Photograph from the Irish Tourist Association Survey 1943-44. Related Posts: 1848 – Castle Oliver / Clonodfoy Castle, Co. Limerick [...]

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1848 – Castle Oliver / Clonodfoy Castle, Co. Limerick

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Architect: G.F. Jones Also known as Castle Oliver, and constructed by English architect George Fowler Jones between 1845-48 for sisters Elizabeth and Mary Isabella Oliver-Gascoigne. Constructed in the Scottish Baronial style of a local pink sandstone, quarried on the estate. Fowler Jones designed several substantial commissions for the sisters, including almshouses and churches in England [...]

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1781 – Ash Hill Towers, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick

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Architect: Charles Anderson An earlier house of 1781 that was extended and castellated to designs possibly by Charles Anderson. Described in Lewis Topographical Dictionary as “a large castellated mansion now in progress of erection in the ancient baronial style, consisting of a centre flanked by lofty circular towers and two extensive wings, of which one [...]

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1971 – Texaco House, Ballsbridge, Dublin

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Architect: David Keane & Partners One of the earliest use of load-bearing precast concrete perimeter units and glass curtain walling in Dublin. With its dark recessed glazing, the strong geometric forms of the precast units marks this building out from most developer-led schemes in Ballsbridge. According to Docomomo, Keane suggested that his inspiration was the [...]

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1920 – Selected design for West Hartlepool War Memorial, Durham

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Architect: George J. Coombs, A.R.C.A. A competition for the memorial design was managed by architect Ernest Newton, RA, who was then President of Royal Institute of British Architects. The winner was George J. Coombs of Aberdeen. Coombs’ design was apparently complete by 1921, when he died, and his plans were carried out by George Bennett [...]

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1920 – Marsh, Jones, & Cribb Department Store, Leeds, Yorkshire

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Architect: Cackett & Burns Dick From The Building News, July 16 1920: “Messrs. Marsh, Jones, and Cribb, the well-known decorators and furnishers of Leeds, decided to erect new buildings, and offered substantial premiums for competition designs. Sir John J. Burnet, R.S.A., Ll.D., F.R.LB.A., was appointed assessor. Thirty-one plans were submitted by several leading architects, including [...]

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1869 – Milner Field, Yorkshire

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Architect: Thomas Harris Milner Field was a large mansion set within its own parkland, one mile to the north west of the mill and model village of Saltaire. It was commissioned by Titus Salt Jnr, the youngest son of the famous Victorian wool baron and philanthropist Sir Titus Salt, and built in 1869 to the [...]

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1873 – Premises, Boar Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire

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Architect: Thomas Ambler From The Building News, December 19 1873: “This illustration represents one of tho new shops in the reconstruction of Boar-lane, in Leeds. The widening of this street has caused a considerable advance in the value of property having frontages to the new street, and as much as £60 per yard has been [...]

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1874 – Congregational Church, Goole, Yorkshire

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Architect: Thomas Porter From The Building News, October 9 1874: “The new Congregational church and schools about to be erected at Goole (of which we this week give a perepective view) are designed to accommodate about 330 persons, with transept in addition appropriated for sittings for 100 children. Tho nave or body of the church [...]

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Church, near Dromore, Co. Limerick

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Illustration one of the series of sketches contributed by E. W. Godwin, F.S.A. and published in The Building News, December 25 1874. Godwin traveled around Ireland drawing antiquities for research before designing Dromore Castle. He later returned, travelling extensively in the later 1860s. Related Posts: 1868 – Church of the Sacred Heart, The Crescent, Limerick [...]

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1876 – St John Chrysostom’s Church, Victoria Park, Manchester

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Architect: George T. Redmayne The building is in the early English style, and was built to the design of George T. Redmayne, who also designed the College of Art in Cavendish Street, Manchester, and Dalton Hall, next door to St Chrysostoms. Constructed between 1874 and 1876 at a cost of £13,000. After a disastrous fire [...]

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1877 – Christ Church of Ireland, Strabane, Co. Tyrone

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Architect: John Kennedy Described as the new St. Comghall’s Church in the architecture press, but named Christ Church. The foundation stone was laid on Tuesday, November 17, 1874, by the Duchess of Abercorn, and the church opened in 1877. Shortly after it was completed, the architect John Kennedy became embroiled in a dispute over a [...]

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1874 – Offices for Lancaster Gas Company, Lancashire

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Architect: Roland Charnley Published in The Building News, November 27 1874: “Which are now about completed, stand on a plot of ground adjoining the Town-hall, and facing towards the market-place. On the ground- floor is a general office, private office, lavatory, and workshop ; on first door a large showroom for exhibiting gas-lightings, also storeroom, [...]

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1872 – St. Walburge’s Church, Preston, Lancashire

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Architect: S.J. Nicholl From The Building News, November 1 1872: “THE church of S. Walburge, Preston, Lancashire, was, as originally designed, a parallelogram, with an open timber roof in one span of 55ft., and we give this week an illustration of the sanctuary and apse now in course of construction. The apse itself is 25ft. [...]

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