Thomas Francis McNamara

Thomas Francis McNamara, RIAI, RIBA (1867–1947) was an Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architect active throughout the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Ireland who designed many hospitals and Roman Catholic churches.

Life

McNamara started his career as a pupil and later managing assistant of William Hague Jr., an architect who designed many Roman Catholic churches generally in the French Gothic style, McNamara rose from being a pupil to managing assistant. forming a business partnership with Hague's widow, practising as Hague & McNamara until about 1907, when he practised under his own name, the firm of T. F. McNamara. After this, he ventured more into Hispano-Romanesque architecture. His office was located on Dawson Street, Dublin, until 1911, at number 50. In 1912, he was appointed architect to the Dublin Joint Hospital Board.

Works Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Omagh (1892-1899), designed in the French Gothic style and built by the Colhoun Brothers of Derry at the contract price of £46,000 County Hospital at Mullingar, begun in 1933 Crooksling Sanatorium, Brittas, County Dublin 28 houses on Bath Avenue, Dublin Numbers 8 and 9, Moore Street, Dublin