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SMITH, WILLIAM CLIFFORD
- Born: 1881/82 Died: 1954
Architect, of Limerick. William Clifford Smith, son of John C. Smith, draper, and his wife, Lucy, was born in 1881 or 1882 in Poole, Dorset. At the time of the English census of 1901 he was a nineteen-year-old architect's pupil, living with his parents at Sunnyside, Kingston Road, Longfleet, Poole. He was presumably articled to a local architect.(1) He appears to have settled in Limerick after winning the competition for designing the Shannon Rowing Club at Limerick in 1902. While he does not appear in the Irish census of 1901, by the time of the 1911 census he was boarding in the house of a widow, Elizabeth McCarthy, in Ennis Road, Limerick. He may have served in the Royal Engineers during the First World War.(2) He formed a short-lived partnership with - Gelson circa 1925 but in 1928 formed a new partnership with Edward Newenham, which lasted until his death on 27 June 1954.(3) The practice, which continued to go by the name of Clifford Smith & Newenham, amalgamated with the Dublin practice of Dermot Mulligan in 1968 to become Newenham Mulligan & Associates.(4)
William Clifford Smith was married and had a daughter, Doreen, who married Charles Johnston in 1937.(5)
Address: Work: 75 O'Connell Street , Limerick.
Home: Ennis Road, Limerick, 1911; Northesk, Lansdowne, Limerick, <=1937(6) until death.
See WORKS (includes works by Clifford Smith & Newenham up until 1940 only).
References
(1) Possibly Henry F.J. Barnes, architect, surveyor and estate agent, of Poole.
(2) Information from Tom Smyth, Limerick.
(3) Irish Times, 28 June 1954.
(4) Information from Newenham, Mulligan & Associates, Dublin.
(5) Irish Times, 10 Sep 1937.
(6) See note 5, above.
22 work entries listed in chronological order for SMITH, WILLIAM CLIFFORD
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Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHANNON ROWING CLUB |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | WCS winner of competition for same. Contractor: Michael Gough, Limerick. Completed 1905 or 1906. Cost £2,000. |
Refs: | Holly Bough (Cork Examiner, 1966), 46; Jim Kemmy & Larry Walsh, Limerick in old picture postcards (1997), No. 82 (illus.); information from Newenham Mulligan & Associates |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, VILLAGE HALL |
Date: | 1910 |
Nature: | 'The original scheme for the hall survives as a drawing, a brilliant adaptation of Voysey's idiom to a communal building by the English architect, Clifford Smith, working in Limerick. What was built in 1911 is much more conventional...'. For 4th Earl of Dunraven. |
Refs: |
J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 264 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, NORTH STRAND, HOUSES (002) |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Pair of villas. Contractor: Sullivan & Sons. |
Refs: | IA & C 1, 4 Mar 1911, 75 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CINEMA |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Conversion of skating rink into a cinema.(See CO. LIMERICK,, LIMERICK, WELLESLEY PLACE, ROLLER SKATING RINK.) |
Refs: | IA & C 1, 15 Apr 1911, 159 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, WELLESLEY PLACE, ROLLER SKATING RINK |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | New roller skating rink. Contractor: D. Sullivan & Sons.(later converted into cinema? See LIM, LIMERICK, CINEMA.) |
Refs: | IB 51, 21 Aug,27 Nov 1909, 533,755 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ENNIS ROAD, HOUSE |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | New house. Contractor: O'Sullivan & Sons. |
Refs: | IA & C 1, 28 Jan 1911, 13 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, BALLINACURRA, HOUSE |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | New house. |
Refs: | IA & C 1, 15 Apr 1911, 158 |
Building: | CO. CLARE, RAHEEN MANOR (SCARIFF) |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Extensive alts. & adds. |
Refs: | IA & C 1, 1 Apr 1911, 131 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, LIMERICK STEAMSHIP CO. |
Date: | 1922 |
Nature: | New premises. Contractor: Kenny & Sons. |
Refs: | IB 64, 4 Nov 1922, 748 |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, DUNGARVAN, MEAGHER STREET, PROVINCIAL BANK |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | Renovation & improvement. Contracter: P. Costen & Son, Waterford. |
Refs: | IB 66, 9 Feb 1924, 102 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, KILFINANE, BARRACKS |
Date: | 1925 |
Nature: | Reconstruction. With - Gelson. |
Refs: | IB 67, 13 Jun 1925, 480 |
Building: | CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, MAIN STREET, PROVINCIAL BANK |
Date: | 1925-26 |
Nature: | New premises. Contractor: Michael White, O'Curry St, Limerick. |
Refs: | IB 67, 22 Aug 1925, 697; 68, 9 Jan 1926, 28 |
Building: | CO. CORK, MALLOW, PROVINCIAL BANK |
Date: | 1926 |
Nature: | Heating installed by Maguire & Gatchell in new(?) premises. |
Refs: | IB 68, 16 Oct 1926, 788 |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ABBEYFEALE, MAIN STREET, PROVINCIAL BANK |
Date: | 1927 |
Nature: | New bank. Site with 50ft frontage acquired in Main Street, 1921. |
Refs: |
Drawing(s) in AIB archives; Irish Times, 7 Apr 1921. |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, WILLIAM STREET, PROVINCIAL BANK |
Date: | 1930 |
Nature: | New single-storey over basement bank on corner site. Red Ruabon facing bricks and artificial stone (made locally by contractors), flat concrete roof. Contractors: D.O'Sullivan & Sons, O'Curry St, Limerick. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 27 Nov 1930 (illus.) |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CASTLETROY, COOLEEN |
Date: | 1936 |
Nature: | New house in International Modern style by Clifford Smith & Newenham for Victor Hewson. |
Refs: |
Ethna Le Masney, 'The International Style comes to Limerick', Architecture Ireland 214 (Feb 2006), 78-79(illus.). |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CASTLETROY, SUNNINGHILL |
Date: | 1937 |
Nature: | New house in International Modern style by Clifford Smith & Newenham for Richard Hewson. |
Refs: |
Ethna Le Masney, 'The International Style comes to Limerick', Architecture Ireland 214 (Feb 2006), 78-79(illus.); Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 56(illus.),57. |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CASTLETROY, YOMA |
Date: | 1937 |
Nature: | New house in International Modern style by Clifford Smith & Newenham for - Ashton. |
Refs: | Ethna Le Masney, 'The International Style comes to Limerick', Architecture Ireland 214 (Feb 2006), 79(illus.) |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CASTLETROY, GARRYKNOCK |
Date: | 1937 |
Nature: | New house in international modern style by Clifford Smith & Newenham . |
Refs: | Ethna Le Masney, 'The International Style comes to Limerick', Architecture Ireland 214 (Feb 2006), 78(illus.) |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CASTLETROY, COOLTARA |
Date: | 1937 |
Nature: | New house in International Modern style by Clifford Smith & Newenham for Vivian St Clare Gloster. |
Refs: | Ethna Le Masney, 'The International Style comes to Limerick', Architecture Ireland 214 (Feb 2006), 78(illus.) |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ADARE MANOR |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'Garden houses by Clifford Smith.' |
Refs: |
J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 263. |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, HOUSES |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'There are further village houses in the same rustic idiom, such as the present Mustard Seed Restaurant that blends with its thatched neighbours so well that it is difficult to think of Smith as an architect in his own right...'. For 4th Earl of Dunraven. |
Refs: |
J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 264 |
Author | Title | Date | Details |
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Le Masney, Ethna | 'The International Style comes to Limerick' | 2006 | Architecture Ireland 214 (Feb 2006), 78-79. |