Thomas_Ignatius_McCarthy
Thomas Ignatius McCarthy, LRIBA (born 31 January 1880, died 13 Feb 1951) was an architect based in Coalville, Leicestershire.
Early in the twentieth century, Thomas Ignatius McCarthy set up a practice as a surveyor and architect in Coalville, which was a partnership shared with Henry Collings (1880 - 1960). Collings was responsible for the design of the Coalville Clock Tower war memorial - a building admired by Pevsner.
Examples of work by Thomas Ignatius McCarthy (some possibly in conjunction with Henry Collings):
- Primitive Methodist Church, Marlborough Square, Coalville - 1903
- Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Parsonwood Hill, Whitwick - 1904[1]
- New Council School, Coalville - 1907[2]
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, 19 High Road, Beeston, Nottinghamshire 1908.
- Olympia Picture House, Coalville - 1910 (demolished 1933)
- South Porch, Saint Andrew's Church, Thringstone - 1911
- The Plaza Cinema, Silver Street, Whitwick - 1914 (destroyed by fire, 1982)[3]
- Hosiery Factory, North Street, Whitwick - 1914 (demolished c 2005)[4]
- Working Men's Co-operative Society, Belvoir Road, Coalvile - 1915[5]
- Extensions to Mowsley Sanatorium - 1918[6]
- Hinckley Isolation Hospital, Ashby Road, tuberculosis pavilion - 1924[7]
- County Sanatorium and Isolation Hospital, Ratby Lane, Markfield - 1932.
- Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic Church, (additions) Nuneaton - 1936[8]