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- 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
* New Council School, Coalville - 1907
* 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)
* Hosiery Factory, North Street, Whitwick - 1914 (demolished c 2005)
* Working Men's Co-operative Society, Belvoir Road, Coalvile - 1915
* Extensions to Mowsley Sanatorium - 1918
* Hinckley Isolation Hospital, Ashby Road, tuberculosis pavilion - 1924
* County Sanatorium and Isolation Hospital, Ratby Lane, Markfield - 1932.
* Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic Church, (additions) Nuneaton - 1936 (en)
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