Selected: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Name: | BROWN, LANCELOT 'CAPABILITY' # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1770ca |
Nature: | Gothic stables, for 1st Vsct. Conyngham |
Refs: | Drawing in IAA, Murray Collection 1132; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 168. |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | Design for library ceiling. For Henry, 1st Viscount Conyngham.. |
Refs: |
Signed drawing dated 1773 in NLI, Wyatt-Penrose album (which contains other designs for hall and interior decoration of Slane Castle); C.P. Curran, Irish Decorative Plasterwork (1967), 74-5; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746-1813) architect to George III (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012), 109. |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1773;1785-86 |
Nature: | Castellated house, for Francis, 2nd Baron Conyngham. Exterior by JW 'but no recognizable Wyatt interiors' (Robinson). |
Refs: |
Elevations, s. & d. Feb 1785, in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 21-25 (see B. Goslin, 'History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection', MA thesis submitted to NUI, Jan 1990, 316-7); drawings in NLI, Wyatt-Penrose album; design(s) in album of ceiling designs by JW, Metopolitan Museum of Art; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 479-82; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1185; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746-1813) architect to George III (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012), 109-110, fig.92. |
Name: | PENROSE, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 177?;1783 |
Nature: | Design for eating parlor entablature (& others). For ? Conyngham. Survey drawings, Apr 1783. |
Refs: | Signed drawing of 1770s and 2 survey drawings, 1783, in IAA, Murray Collection, Acc. 92/46, nos. 1088,1103,1104; further survey drawings, Apr 1783, in Slane Castle Collection |
Name: | BROWN, LANCELOT 'CAPABILITY' # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1780-1783ca |
Nature: | Proposed design, ?for 1st Viscount Conyngham (d. 1781). |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection 1091-1094. |
Name: | GANDON, JAMES |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1781-83 |
Nature: | Proposed alterations for William Burton-Conyngham. |
Refs: | Designs attr. to JG in IAA, RIAI Murray Collection 1095-1102, for one of these see D.J. Griffin & S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA, 1993), 36 (no.9, illus.); see E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index; |
Name: | ROBINSON, - |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1783p |
Nature: | Began altering building; replaced by James Wyatt in 1785. For William Burton Conyngham. |
Refs: | A.J. Rowan, 'Georgian Castles in Ireland - I', BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 1964), 16-17, and E.McParland, James Gandon (1985), 116-117,196, n39. |
Name: | STEWART, ALEXANDER * |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1785ca-1787 |
Nature: | AS handled quarrying of stone for remodelling of same to designs by James Wyatt. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 155; E.McP files, citing F. Fergusson (letter and catalogue). |
Name: | SUTHERLAND, JOHN |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1787? |
Nature: | Park laid out by JS. For William Burton Conyngham? |
Refs: | Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 44 (date given as 1767 by E. Malins & the Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (1976), 89) |
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1795ca |
Nature: | Battlemented gateway, for William Burton Conyngham. |
Refs: | 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 2; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 482 |
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1795ca |
Nature: | Finished hall, staircase and entrance, for William Burton Conyngham. |
Refs: | 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 2; Murray Collection catalogue, 322-3; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 482 |
Name: | HOPPER, THOMAS # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1812-13 |
Nature: | Alts, including circular room, for 1st Marquess Conyngham. |
Refs: |
MS. letter from Hopper to Richard Morrison, 17 Dec 1839, in RIAI archives (copy and photograph in IAA, Jones files); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 482-3; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 541. |
Name: | KENNEDY, LEWIS # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1818 |
Nature: | Proposed conservatory and improvements to demesne in portfolio entitled 'Notitiae on the Improvements Proposed...for Slane Castle', addressed to 1st Marquess Conyngham, Feb 1818. |
Refs: | Slane Castle collection (photographs of some of the illustrations are in IAA); see also Mark Odlum, 'Slane Castle, Co. Meath - III', Country Life 168, 31 Jul 1980, 385 |
Name: | MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR) |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | 1820a |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposal for completion. For Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham. |
Refs: | A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 181 |
Name: | SILLERY, CHARLES HENRY |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposed design for stables by - Sillery. |
Refs: | E.McP files, citing information from Mark Odlum, Jun 1978 |