Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: HOPCRAFT, ROBERT GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND)
Date: 1929
Nature: RGH involved in remodelling of existing Francis Johnston building, for OPW. (Including filling in of archway and opening ground floor side windows, creating new central hall &c. Contractor: G. & T. Crampton.
Refs: Photograph in IAA, Acc. 92/75; obituary in RIAI Yearbook 1948, 34;  Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 72(illus.)

Name: BYRNE, THOMAS JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND)
Date: 1929
Nature: Remodelling of existing building (formerly part of Bank or Ireland) by Office of Public Works to form new  premises for Currency Commission. New stonework on facade of Portland stone and Ballyknocken granite.  Carving by Pettain (brackets) and Mather (urns).  TJB principal architect.  C.W. Pemberton, FSI, assistant architect. Contractors: G. & T. Crampton Ltd, Hmmersmith Works, Ballsbridge.
Refs: Irish Times, 13 Dec 1928 *(illus.);  Architect & Building News 126, 19 Jun 1931, 411 (illus.).

Name: BECKETT & HARRINGTON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND)
Date: 1953
Nature: New office block & vaults
Refs: IB 95, 18 Jul 1953, 755

Name: ALCOCK, JOSEPH PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND)
Date: ?
Nature: Improvements for OPW
Refs: Irish Times, 8 Jul 1966 (obituary); Oibre 4 (Sep 1966), 3 (obituary)