1837 – Kilkenny Castle, Co. Kilkenny
Kilkenny Castle has been an important site since Strongbow constructed the first building here, a wooden tower in the 12th century.
Sir Thomas Newenham Deane (1828-1899)
Sir Thomas Newenham Deane (1828-1899) was born in Cork – his father was also a noted architect and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He joined his father’s practice in 1850 and was made a partner the following year along with Benjamin Woodward. The firm then developed a gothic style based on the naturalistic principles as laid down by John Ruskin. This was to result in the practice playing an important role in the gothic revival in England.
Their two most important building were the Museum building at Trinity College (1854-57) and the Oxford Museum (1854-60) in England. They also designed the Kildare Street Club in Dublin – interiors now mainly destroyed. In later years after the death of Woodward, Deane continued to practice as an architect and formed a partnership with his son Thomas Manly Deane (T.M. Deane) in 1878. This practice was responsible for the design and building of the National Library and Museum complex beside Leinster House. He was knighted in 1890.
1839 – Former Limerick Savings Bank, Glentworth St., Limerick
Architect: W.H. Owen / Sir Thomas Newenham Deane
Originally built as the Limerick Savings Bank; now after a series of bank amalgamations and closures,
1864 – New Castle, Portumna, Co. Galway
Architect: Architect: Sir Thomas Newenham Deane
Built in a French Gothic style for the Marquess of Clanricarde. It was two-storeys with a high pitched roof and an attic of steep gables and dormer-gables.
1865 – Court-na-Farraige, Killiney, Co. Dublin
Architect: Architect: Sir Thomas Newenham Deane
Formerly a private house called Court-na-Farraige, part of a group of fanciful, French chateau-inspired houses along the coastline.
1865 – Crown Life Assurance, Fleet Street, London
Architect: Sir Thomas Newenham Deane
Venetian Gothic office building that was constructed to replace, his deceased partner, Benjamin Woodward’s Blackfriars office.
1865 – Meadow Buildings, Christ Church College, Oxford
Architect: Thomas Newenham Deane
In 1862-65 Meadow Buildings, a Venetian Gothic construction by T.N. Deane, was erected to accommodate on site more of the undergraduates.
1867 – Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance Co., College Green, Dublin
Architect: Thomas Newenham Deane
Demolished in the 1960s to make way for a new office block. Originally constructed on the site of a wing of Daly’s Club –
1867 – Scottish Provincial Assurance Co., O’Connell St., Dublin
Architect: Sir Thomas Newenham Deane
Constructed on the site of Drogheda House, the house occupied by the Earl of Drogheda.
1867 – Shooting Lodge, Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
Architect: Thomas Newenham Deane
Shooting lodge and offices for Marquess of Ormonde. Estimated cost: £3,000. Published in The Irish Builder,
1867 – T.N. Deane’s Design for Royal Courts of Justice, London
Architect: Thomas Newenham Deane
Design submitted by Irish architect, Thomas Newenham Deane, for the Royal Courts of Justice competition in London,
