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.

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.

1872 – Nos.12-13 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin

Architect: Sir Thomas Newenham Deane

Shops & dwellings, for J.G. Mooney. Constructed in Dalkey granite & Portland stone, it was converted into a branch of the Hibernian Bank in 1878,

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,

1872 – Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Co. Mayo

Architect: Thomas Newenham Deane

Fine Church of Ireland on site provided by 3rd Marquess of Sligo who also provided £1200 towards cost of erection,

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,

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 – 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 –

1878 – St Mary’s Cathedral, Tuam, Co. Galway

Architect: Thomas Newenham Deane

This, the third Cathedral to be built in Tuam, was built on the site of the first cathedral and incorporated a Hiberno-Romanesque arch that remained onsite.

1883 – Unexecuted design for National Museum & Library, Dublin

Architect: T.N. Deane & Son

The selected design after an architectural competition to design a complex of museum and library around Leinster House (then part of the Royal Dublin Society).

Sir Thomas Newenham Deane (1828-1899)

1865 – Crown Life Assurance, Fleet Street, London

1865 – Meadow Buildings, Christ Church College, Oxford

1872 – Nos.12-13 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin

1867 – Shooting Lodge, Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary

1872 – Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Co. Mayo

1867 – T.N. Deane’s Design for Royal Courts of Justice, London

1867 – Scottish Provincial Assurance Co., O’Connell St., Dublin

1867 – Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance Co., College Green, Dublin

1878 – St Mary’s Cathedral, Tuam, Co. Galway

1883 – Unexecuted design for National Museum & Library, Dublin

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