Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Cork. Alexander Sharp Deane was born in Cork on 25 November 1796, the second son of ALEXANDER DEANE[1]  ALEXANDER DEANE[1] and his wife Elizabeth (née Sharp). He was a brother of THOMAS DEANE  THOMAS DEANE and of KEARNS DEANE KEARNS DEANE , with whom he collaborated.(1) He was admitted a freeman of Cork on 15 September 1818.(2)160; In February 1823, according to JOHN HOGAN JOHN HOGAN , Thomas Deane apprenticed Alexander to 'Nicholson, Architect, London'.(3) This was Alfred Nicholson (1788-1833), who was a drawing master, rather than an an architect. Alexander Deane worked for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners at least from 1837 until 1842,(4) and designed St Peter's Market, Cork.(5)

Alexander Sharp Deane was known in Cork as 'Sandy Bull' Deane, probably to distinguish him from his first cousin ALEXANDER DEANE [2] ALEXANDER DEANE [2] . He married Mary Lane, second daughter of a woollen manufacturer named James Lane, of Riverstown, Co. Cork, on 23 August 1828. Like his brother Kearns, he died from tuberculosis early in 1847.

Address: Lapp's Island, 1824;(6) Blackrock Road, Ballintemple, from 1834 or earlier; 4 Belgrave Place, Cork, 1846.(7)

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References

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane & Woodward, (Cork University Press, 1997), 7,8,9,11,14,59,548n. Genealogical information is from Hector Deane, owner of the Deane family tree compiled by Thomas Manly Deane, (Aug 2009) and from www.familysearch.org.

(1) IB 43, 13 Feb 1901, 634.
(2) Information from Hector Deane (Aug 2009)
(3) John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 24.
(4) NA/SPO/OP Church 1844(319), 1837-8(142) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44); his drawing for Ballinadee Church, Co. Cork, 3 Jun 1839, is signed 'Alex Deane, dist. archt.'. 
(5) Inscription on building gives date of 1843 or 1848 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(6) Pigot & Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824).
(7) Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1846).


8 work entries listed in chronological order for DEANE, ALEXANDER SHARP


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Building: CO. CORK, CARRIGNAVAR, CHURCH (CI, DUNBULLOGE PARISH)
Date: 1837
Nature: Proposed new church. (Lewis writes, 1837, that a church 'has recently been ;built at Carrignavar by subscription, to which the incumbent and Justin McCarty, Esq., were the principal contributors; the latter gave the site.')
Refs: Sketch by Alexander Deane, 1837, of design by Rev. Archdeacon Kyle in RCB Library, portfolio 8; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 568

Building: CO. CORK, AGHABULLOGUE, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1838
Nature: New.
Refs: Signed and dated drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 5

Building: CO. CORK, INCHINABACKY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1838
Nature: New 3-bay rectangular church, with entrance and bellcote at W end.
Refs: Signed and dated drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 5

Building: CO. KERRY, KILLURY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1838
Nature: New church - replacing 'neat' church of 1822 (Lewis) -
Refs: Drawing(s), signed and dated 1838, in RCB Library, portfolio 2, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org (last visited, Feb 2016); Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 23 infers that it was built if not designed by Alexander Deane[2].

Building: CO. CORK, KILMICHAEL, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1838-39
Nature: New church.
Refs: Signed drawing(s), dated 1838, in RCB Library, portfolio 9 (Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 23, infers that it was built if not designed by Alexander Deane[2])

Building: CO. CORK, BALLINADEE, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1839
Nature: Proposed rebuilding of church of 1759.
Refs: Signed  working plan and elevation dated Cork, 13 Jun 1839, in  in Representative Church Body  Library, portfolio 8, See RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/1634,1635 (last visited, Feb 2017).

Building: CO. CORK, CROOKHAVEN, CHURCH (CI, KILMOE PARISH)
Date: 1839-1841
Nature: New 3-bay rectangular church, lit by single lancets. W door. S vestry.. Consecrated, Aug 1841..
Refs: Signed sheet of drawings showing plan, section and elevations, dated 13 Jun 1839, in Representative Church Body Library, portfolio 9, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/1906 (last visited, Jan 2017);  Christian Examiner 2, no. 8, 1 Aug 1841, 255Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 23, infers that it was built if not designed by Alexander Deane[2]

Building: CO. CORK, CORK, NEW BAZAAR
Date: 1850
Nature: Structure with wrought iron roofs by Mallett & Co., Dublin.
Refs: B 8, 31 Aug 1850, 413