Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English architect, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), 842. Philip Charles Hardwick was a grandson of THOMAS HARDWICK THOMAS HARDWICK . Most of his known Irish commissions appear to have resulted either directly or indirectly from the patronage of the third Earl of Dunraven, who employed him to complete Adare Manor and to carry out other work in the village of Adare. Hardwick also built a church for Lord Dunraven at Sneem, Co. Kerry. Lord Dunraven was closely involved with St Columba's College, Rathfarnham, for which Hardwick designed additions. It was presumably Hardwick's work at Adare, which included the improvement of the Catholic church in the village, which resulted in his receiving the commissions to design the Catholic cathedral and the Church of St Alphonsus Liguori in nearby Limerick city.

The Irish Architectural Archive's Carberry Collection includes a set of drawings by Hardwick for the Church of St Alphonsus Liguori and one attributable detail drawing for Adare Manor (Acc. 85/200.6/1 and 7/1-29).  The Archive also holds Hardwick's designs for a Tudor Gothic gate lodge at Donacomper, Co. Kildare (Acc. 77/040).

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An engraved portrait of Hardwick is in B 28, 12 Nov 1870, 906, and a photograph in IB 49, 23 Mar 1907, 221.


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, COLLEGE ROAD, ST COLUMBA'S COLLEGE
Date: 1849;1852
Nature: Additions, including old chapel, hall and cloister. Builder: Moyers, Dublin
Refs: Undated bird's eye view and block plan. incr. on verso 'College St Columba Ireland partly executed/P.C. Hardwick in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA drawings collection, PA138/4, see Catalogue of the Drawings of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 88, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/9XUA9hxk2W/MAIN_CAT/274450013/13 (last visited Apr 2009) (this is probably the same view which appears as Plate 31 in Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 15 (Sep 1852), with short description on p. 281);  another signed, undated design for proposed scheme at St Columba's; photocopy of drawing of section through dormitory probably by Hardwick in IAA, RP.D.108.3; RA 1852, no. 1175; B 10, 1 May,9 Oct 1852, 289,642;  Fred W. Attwood, 'History of St Columba's College', The Columban Annual (1933), 39,45-47(illus.)

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE MANOR
Date: 1850-53
Nature: New wing (W end of S front, & Wyndham Tower); 'in progress' when design exh. at RA, 1851. - Morrison appointed clerk of works, 1853.
Refs: Undated drawing for stonework of dining-room chimneypiece, unsigned 'though in P.C. Hardwick's hand' in IAA, Carberry Collection, Acc. 85/200, 6/1; RA 1851, no. 267; F.O. Morris, IV, 39; IB 54, 12 Oct 1912, 584; John Cornforth, 'Adare Manor, Co. Limerick - III', Country Life 145, 29 May 1969, 1366-1369; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 504

Building: CO. KILDARE, DONACOMPER
Date: 1851-52
Nature: Designs for Gothic gate lodge. For Alexander Richard Kirkpatrick.

Refs: Signed plans, sections, elevations, 1 Aug 1851, and details, Feb 1852,  in IAA, Acc. 77/040.

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH (RC; FORMER TRINITARIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1852-54
Nature: Restoration of Trinitarian Abbey in Main Street as RC church, for 3rd Earl of Dunraven. New portions in Early English style. Cost c. £1000 principally cibntributed by Earl of Dunraven. Clerk of Works: Morrison.
Refs: B 10, 8 May 1852, 300; ?11, 30 Jul 1853, 484?; 12, 6 May 1854, 237; 54, 12 Oct 1912, 584; John Cornforth, 'Adare Manor, Co. Limerick - III', Country Life 145, 29 May 1969, 1369(illus.); Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 601

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, MONASTERY, NUNNERY AND SCHOOLS
Date: 1852-54
Nature: 'An extensive building for the scholastic and other purposes of the Catholic Brothers is to be erected…by the [3rd] Earl of Dunraven.
Refs: B 10, 5 Jun 1852, 359; 12, 6 May 1854, 237

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1854
Nature: Restoration. Dowager Contess of Dunraven contributes £500.
Refs: B 11, 30 Jul 1853, 484; 12, 6 May 1854, 237;  B.H. Blacker, 'Sketches of Irish Churches - VIII' in Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette14, no. 156, 23 May 1872.

Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CATHEDRAL PLACE, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: 1855-61
Nature: New cathedral replacing St John's Chapel (very close to but not on same site as latter). Body of church designed by PCH, winner of competition..FS laid 1 May 1856. Opened (unfinished) Jul 1861. (His sketch designs for tower in Cathedral archives. One of these adapted and carried out by M.A. Hennessy.) Contractor: Mssrs. Ryan or William Wallace?. Decoration: Hodkinson (Limerick). High Altar: W. Doolin, Westland Row. Throne by 'a Belgian firm'.
Refs: B 10, 30 Oct 1852, 689; 13, 13 Oct 1855, 486; 15, 14 Mar 1857, 156; 17, 26 Nov 1859, 782; DB 1, 1 Feb 1859, 17; 2, 1 Jan 1860, 178(illus.); 5, 15 May 1863, 81; IB 36, 1 Jul 1895, 157; 49, 23 Mar 1907, 221(illus.); 54, 31 Aug 1912, 509; M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 680; John Fleming, St John's Cathedral, Limerick (1987),

Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET UPPER, CHURCH OF ST ALPHONSUS (RC, REDEMPTORIST)
Date: 1858-1862
Nature: FS laid 30 May 1858; church dedicated 7 Dec 1862. Building of church superintended by Corbett. Builder: W. Wallace.
Refs: Drawings, signed PCH and dated 1858, 1861, 1861 and 1862, in IAA, Carberry Collection, Acc. 85/200.7/1-29; incomplete set of 8 drawings, 7 signed 'P.C.H. Aug. 1858', in NA/PRO 999/329, see Aideen Ireland, 'The Church of St Alphonsus Liguori, Limerick', North Munster Antiquarian Journal 22 (1980), 67-68; M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 676; APSD 5, L, 92

Building: CO. KERRY, SNEEM, CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1863
Nature: New church 'of Italian character' for Lord Dunraven. Square tower, 65 ft high, 'relieved with arched openings'.. FS laid by Lord Dunraven,Sep 1863. Contr: D.W. Murphy, Bantry. Bath stone used. PCH hampered by PP at Sneem 'who insisted on a low-pitched roof, and no pillars or arches'
Refs: DB 5, 15 May,15 Sep 1863, 81,157; IB 54, 14 Sep 1912, 532

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE MANOR
Date: 1864
Nature: Stable offices for 3rd Earl of Dunraven 'just completed'. work superintended by Mr Corbett, Limerick. Builder: James Hunter, Bandon.
Refs: DB 6, 15 Nov 1864, 237

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CROSS & WELL
Date: 1867a
Nature: Design for monumental cross and well set within the break of a low wall outside the W end of a church. . For 3rd Earl of Dunraven.'In a "Wayside Cross and Conduit, at Adan[sic]. Ireland" (57) Mr Hardwick also presents us with a most captivating picture. The chapel and conduit are formed out of the ruins of an old abbey (article on Architectural Exhibition, London, in Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 30, 1 Jun 1867, 259).
Refs: Design for 'Wayside cross and conduit' exh. Architectural Exhibition, London, May-Jul, 1867, No. 57 (see Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 30, 1 Jun 1867, 259);  probably the same as design inscr. on label on verso 'Adare/P.C. Hardwick' in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA drawings collection, PB322/2, see Catalogue of the Drawings of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 87, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/9XUA9hxk2W/MAIN_CAT/274450013/13 (last visited Apr 2009).

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1868
Nature: New porch, 1868 (memorial to Rev. Henry Hampden Jones).
Refs: Design for porch signed PCH, August 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 22; John Cornforth, 'Adare Manor, Co. Limerick - III', Country Life 145, 29 May 1969, 1369(illus.)

Building: CO. ARMAGH, GRANGE (LOUGHGALL), CHURCH OF ST AIDAN (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Polygonal Caen stone font;  Mulligan suggests that pulpit and reading desk may also be by PCH. 
Refs: Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 485;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 524.

Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: ?
Nature: Conversion of former Trinitarian Priory into Convent of Mercy.
Refs: North Munster Antiquarian Journal (1957), 1