1893 – Design for Pembroke Technical Schools, Ringsend, Dublin

Unsuccessful entrant in an architectural competition won by William Kaye-Parry. The Earl of Pembroke donated the site free of rent. “The design illustrated in present issue is one of those submitted in competition by Mr Frederick Morley ARIBA, Great Brunswick street. The arrangements of the design are for a one storey building consisting of lecture hall 60 ft by 30 ft arranged also for concerts &c lavatories for males and females, stage and retiring rooms two store rooms each 16 ft by 10 ft, two class rooms each 32 ft by 16 ft, four class rooms each 24 ft by 16 ft, offices &c and a large central circular hall 32 ft diameter with staircase leading to gallery and workshop over. The materials proposed to be used were red bricks with mountain granite dressings and the estimated cost was 4,000.” Published in The Irish Builder, June 1 1893.

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