This landmark building in the heart of Cork city houses Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Business School and Irish Management Institute programmes, bringing together the largest business school in Ireland with the leading, internationally ranked leadership and executive education institute in the country. The opening of the UCC Centre for Executive Education is the latest 深夜亚洲福利久久 building to open in a city centre location.
An T谩naiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney TD, officially opened the 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork Centre for Executive Education at 1 Lapps Quay in Cork on 26 November 2018. Speaking at the opening of the UCC Centre for Executive Education, An T谩naiste Simon Coveney said, 鈥淟ocated in the heart of Cork city, this building represents the ambition and commitment of 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork in leading Ireland鈥檚 future business and executive education. In bringing together Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Business School and IMI, professionals across a wide range of sectors will benefit enormously from the synergies and vision represented by this magnificent building which has had a long history of banking, and will now continue to enrich people鈥檚 lives and our business environment.鈥�
The building at 1 Lapp鈥檚 Quay is a listed property, built in the early 1840s as the home of the Cork Savings Bank. The building fronts on to Lapp鈥檚 Quay, facing the River Lee and the side is on Parnell Place. No 16 Parnell Place is the former secretary's house.
The significance of the former Savings Bank is acknowledged in its inclusion on the City Development Plan 2015-2021, Volume 3 Specific Built Heritage Objectives (Cork City Record of Protected Structures number PS157). Both the Savings Bank and the secretary鈥檚 house at 16 Parnell Place are included on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage鈥檚 survey of Cork City (registration numbers (16 Parnell Place) and (1 Lapp鈥檚 Quay)). Both are awarded architectural categories of special interest and the former bank building is awarded social and artistic categories in addition.
The bank building stayed in continuous banking use from its construction until late 2012 and has retained the majority of its original architectural features and fittings including external stonework, floorplan, roof structure, joinery, plasterwork, woodwork and fireplaces.
The Cork Savings Bank
The Cork Savings Bank (CSB) opened on 20 December 1817. Its first premises were in a room of the Royal Cork Institution, Emmet Place. Then in 1824 its first building, designed by local young architect, Thomas Deane, was erected on Pembroke Street.[1] This building later became the General Post Office (see photo) and was on the site of the present GPO. The Cork Savings Bank moved to its new building on Lapp鈥檚 Quay on Saturday, 20 August 1842: the Trustees had breakfast in the Boardroom.
The CSB was independent from 1817 until 1986 when it merged with the Limerick Savings Bank forming the Cork and Limerick Savings Bank. In 1992 TSB Dublin merged with the C&L Savings Bank to form the Trustee Savings Bank (TSB). In 2001 TSB Bank joined the Irish Life & Permanent Group and the name changed to Permanent TSB. This branch of Permanent TSB closed in 2012. For more about the history of the PTSB, .
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The Trustees of the Bank advertised in February 1839 seeking a plot of ground on which they proposed to build a new bank. It was stipulated that the site had to be 'not less than 60 feet in front, by 100 to 120 feet in depth'.[2] On 3 December 1839 the Trustees met to consider tenders from builders for the construction of a new bank building.[3] Drawings including elevations, sections and plans indicate that Henry Hill, a Cork architect, may have competed for the project.[4] In the event it was Thomas Deane and his brother Kearns Deane who designed the new building, with the brothers superintending the construction of the new bank on the corner of Lapp鈥檚 Quay and Parnell Place.[5] The contractor was Mr T. Fitzgerald. A plaque commemorating the architects and builder was erected inside the building and remains there today.
The constructed building is 32.9m on Parnell Place and 18.8m on Lapp鈥檚 Quay. This purpose-built bank is a corner-sited five-bay two-storey neo-Classical style building of limestone from the quarries at nearby Ballinlough, with the ground floor walls faced with ashlar. The slate roof is hipped and pitched with an ashlar limestone stepped parapet. The original timber panelled door has been retained. The original ground floor contained the Banking Hall and a manager鈥檚 office. The Banking Hall (or 'Cash Office') measures 15.8m 脳 11.8m and is 12m in height, originally with fittings of Spanish mahogany. Upstairs on the first floor there is a grand boardroom with views over the River Lee. In 1841 tenders were sought for the high detailed iron railing that still surrounds the building today.[6] At the end of that year, the fit out of the building began, with a call for estimates for 'Erecting the Counter and other Fittings of the New Savings Bank'.[7] The total cost of the building was 拢11,000. Sir Thomas was, with his business partner Benjamin Woodward, one of the architects of Queen鈥檚 College Cork (now UCC) in the late 1840s.
The work continued until August 1842 when the public were informed that the 'New Bank, Warren's Place', would open on the 20 August 1842. At a meeting of the Trustees and Managers of the Cork Savings鈥� Bank, a vote of thanks was made to the architects, Sir Thomas Deane and Kearns Deane, Esquire, 'for the very able and zealous manner in which they have executed their Plans, whereby an Edifice has been raised in our City, at once convenient in arrangement, appropriate in Design, and beautiful in Structure.'[8] The photo below, from the Lawrence Collection at the National Library of Ireland, shows the Bank in about 1900.
A few months later, in October 1842, the Committee of the bank advertised for tenders for building 'a porch in the Hall of the Bank'.[9] When a larger than life-size statue of William Crawford, senior, was sculpted by the Irishman John Hogan, it was too large for any other space in the city and was installed by Hogan himself in 1846: 'Hogan, the sculptor, has arrived in Cork, and remains for a month to superintend the erection of his statue of the late W. Crawford, Esq., in the Savings鈥� Bank'.[10] For many years the statue was in the Banking Hall until it was moved to the Crawford Art Gallery in 1957.[11] Also in the Banking Hall is a large portrait of James Craig, long-time Treasurer of the Cork Savings' Bank, now in the UCC Curatorial Collections. In 1873 improvements that included 'Cementing and other Repairs' were carried out to 1 Lapp鈥檚 Quay under instruction from Cork architects Henry and Arthur Hill.[12] In the same year, the Hills also took charge of improvements to the bank and the secretary鈥檚 residence, including a new front to that building: 'The same architects and builder [i.e., Messrs Henry and Arthur Hill, architects; Mr Samuel Thomas, of Cork, contractor] are now engaged in carrying out the works of improvement to the Cork Savings Bank buildings, and secretary鈥檚 residence in connection therewith, embracing a new front to the latter, facing Warren鈥檚-place'.[13] Further renovations were carried out in 1950 under the instruction of Henry Houghton Hill,[14] and in 1954 Chillingworth & Levie who were responsible for additional toilet accommodation to the building.[15] These extensions housing toilets and an additional staircase were located to the eastern side of the building in the yard.
In 1843 the annual meeting of the (BAAS) was held in Cork, which was marked by a few pages in the Illustrated London 深夜亚洲福利久久, including an engraving showing the Savings Bank.
In 1863, the CSB advertised for a porter and a female attendant or servant (who would be a female relative of the porter).[16] The wages were 12 shillings a week for the porter and 5 shillings for the female employee. In addition, accommodation 'in the bank' and fuel would be provided as well as livery for the porter. This accommodation was possibly in the attic of the bank.
No 16 Parnell Place
No 16 Parnell Place, adjacent to the former bank building, is a terraced three-bay three-storey former house, built in about 1846. The Building Committee advertised in February 1846 seeking proposals for the erection of 'a dwelling house' adjoining the Bank at Warren鈥檚 (Parnell) Place.[17] The architect was Kearns Deane, Deane Street, Lapp鈥檚 Island. An internal door in the north-west corner of the Banking Hall connected with this house. (The matching door on the north-east of the Banking Hall led to the safe.) In 1873 this building was refaced by the architects Henry and Arthur Hill (as mentioned above).
This was the residence of the secretary of the Cork Savings Bank. The secretary, who reported to the Trustees, received a salary (拢200 in 1873, rising to 拢250 in 1886) and accommodation.
From 1829 onward, the secretaries included: John Besnard, until 1862; then, John F. Harvey and his son John H. Harvey, appointed 1870; Charles Ross Munro, appointed in 1873; succeeded by Henry Carr Cave, who was appointed in 1886 and can be seen as still living in the house with his family and domestic servants in the and Census. By 1911, Cave's son William is a bank officer. According to the death certificate, Cave died at 鈥楽avings Bank House鈥�, aged 81, in 1929. It will be interesting to see whether Cave was still the bank's secretary in 1926 when that census is released in 2026.
Acquisition by UCC
The buildings were purchased by UCC in 2016 from Cork City Council. To facilitate the refurbishment and reuse of the original bank building, a new extension was constructed within the enclosed yard to the east. This enables circulation across the upper floors of 16 Parnell Place to the upstairs rooms of 1 Lapp's Quay thus avoiding the necessity to go through the former Banking Hall. The Banking Hall and lecture rooms are available for large groups at lectures or events. Support functions and required services have also been efficiently catered for in this new construction, and enable the maintenance of the large historic rooms in their original form. Using the narrow space in the yard means that the new accommodation is hidden from exterior view thus preserving the historic streetscape. The buildings now house the UCC Centre for Executive Education in the College of Business and Law.
This project was delivered by the Capital Projects team, Buildings & Estates, UCC. The design team comprised: JCA Architects, civil and structural engineers Horgan Lynch, mechanical and electrical engineering by RPS Group, and quantity surveyors Michael Barrett Partnership. The contractor was Summerhill Construction.
References
[1] John Windele, (Cork: Luke H. Bolster, 1839), 108-109.
[2] Advertisement, 鈥楤uilding ground鈥�, Southern Reporter, 7 February 1839, 3.
[3] Advertisement, 鈥楽avings鈥� Bank, Cork. To Builders, &c.鈥�, Southern Reporter, 26 November 1839, 1.
[4] Dictionary of Irish Architects: 鈥楥O. CORK, CORK, LAPP'S QUAY (& PARNELL PLACE), CORK SAVINGS BANK鈥�, circa 1835.
[5] Cork Standard, 25 October 1839; John Windele, (Cork: Bradford & Co., 1849), 120-121; '', Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Vol. 23, No. 116 (1917) pp 177-185 (181); T. F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (Cork: Watermans, 1981), 112; Frederick O鈥橠wyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork: Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press, 1997), 23, 25 (illus.), 26, 553n.
[6] Advertisement, 鈥楥ork Savings鈥� Bank. Iron railing鈥�, Southern Reporter, 15 June 1841, 2.
[7] Advertisement, 鈥楾o Cabinet Makers and Others. Cork Savings鈥� Bank鈥�, Cork Examiner, 31 December 1841, 1.
[8] Advertisement, 鈥楥ork Savings鈥� Bank鈥�, Southern Reporter, 16 August 1842, 2.
[9] Advertisement, 鈥楽aving Bank.鈥擳o Builders鈥�, Southern Reporter, 25 October 1842, 2.
[10] 鈥樕钜寡侵薷＠镁� of the Week: Domestic鈥�, The Nation, 25 July 1846, 644.
[11] John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish neoclassical sculptor in Rome (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1982), 71 (illus.), 142-143; Crawford Art Gallery CAG.658.
[12] Advertisement, 鈥楥ork Savings鈥� Bank鈥�, Cork Examiner, 3 May 1873, 4.
[13] 鈥楴otes from the South鈥�, Irish Builder 15 (15 May 1873), 140.
[14] Irish Builder 92 (11 November 1950), 1216.
[15] Irish Builder 96 (24 April 1954), 417. The Chillingworth & Levie archive is located in the Cork City and County Archives.
[16] Advertisement, 鈥榃anted鈥�, Cork Examiner, 17 November 1863, 2.
[17] Advertisement, 鈥楾o Builders鈥�, Cork Examiner, 6 February 1846, 3.
Geographical information
No 1 Lapp鈥檚 Quay
Irish grid coordinates: Easting 167922, Northing 71815.
Latitude: 51掳 53' 53.242049鈥� N
Longitude: -8掳 8' 0.218731鈥� E
No 16 Parnell Place
Irish grid coordinates: Easting 167915, Northing 71835
Latitude: 51掳 53' 53.887653
Longitude: -8掳 28' 0.59151
Sources
: Cork No. 6 Urban, National Archives of Ireland
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Ordnance Survey, City of Cork: (1869)
Ordnance Survey, City of Cork: (1893)
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