Competition entry for headquarters of the National Bank on College Green. The National Bank was a competitior of the Bank of Ireland opposite and seen very much as a bank for catholic businessmen rather than the Anglo-Irish aristocracy.
Originally this Bank opened as the Union Bank in 1867 with only four bays on College Green and two on Church Lane.
Demolished in the 1960s to make way for a new office block for the parent company Royal Insurance.
The last of three buildings by Scottish architect David Bryce in Dublin, and the only one lost to the city –
Monument to Henry Grattan MP (1746-1820), shipped from London in November 1875 after the sculptor John Henry Foley had died in 1874.
Office building in an Elizabethan Tudor style on the corner of College Green and Anglesea Street.
Designed in 1879 by Thomas Manly Deane of T.N Deane & Son as offices for the Commercial Union Assurance Company,
Constructed in 1888-89 for poplin manufacturer Richard Atkinson & Co, as a showroom and offices.
Unsuccessful competition entry to design new Ulster Bank for College Green. Placed second, and even more over-blown Victorian than the building constructed and eventually wrecked by the bank.
“These premises, which for some time past have been undergoing considerable alterations and improvements, are now completed.
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