1861 – St. Mary’s Institute for Catholic Blind Females, Harold’s Cross, Dublin
Proposal for an asylum for the blind at Harold’s Cross.
Proposal for an asylum for the blind at Harold’s Cross.
Later known as St David’s Hospital,
Gothic revival institution not much larger than a large Victorian house “for respectable but reduced aged protestants”,
Large District lunatic asylum erected to a design by George Wilkinson (1814-90).
The District Asylum was designed by James Bell and James Barry Farrell in the Italianate style,
Now known as the Downshire Hospital.
From The Builder, April 2, 1870: THE subject of the accompanying illustration is the newly erected asylum for the reception of the insane poor of the county of Berks and boroughs of Reading and Newbury.
Large complex of buildings built between 1869-71.
From The Building News, August 23 1872: “”Mens.”
Design for extensions to Warneford Asylum,