Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL
Name: | PARKE, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1772 |
Nature: | 'Mr Parke' an unsuccessful competition entrant. |
Refs: | Freeman's Journal 9-12 Jan 1773 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); for 2 competitions of 1772 and 1773 see S. O'Reilly & Nicholas Robinson, New Lease of Life: The Law Society's building at Blackhall Place (Dublin, 1990), 9. |
Name: | OMER, ROWLAND |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1772 or 1773 |
Nature: | Competition entrant. |
Refs: | Freeman's Journal 9-12 Jan 1773 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); for 2 competitions of 1772 and 1773, see S. O'Reilly & Nicholas Robinson, New Lease of Life: The Law Society's building at Blackhall Place (Dublin, 1990), 9. |
Name: | REILLY, JAMES [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | 'Riely' a competition entrant. |
Refs: | Freeman's Journal, 'Blue Coat notes' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44). |
Name: | IVORY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | Ivory winner of competition. Retired from commission in 1780 when curtailed plan was executed by John Wilson. |
Refs: |
Set of drawings presented to George III, now in British Library; James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated; E. McParland, 'Thomas Ivory', BIGS 17 (Jan-Jun 1974), 17; L. Whiteside, A History of the King's Hospital (1975), 50,51,55; S. O'Reilly, New Lease of Life: the Law Society's Building at Blackhall Place (1990), 7-25(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 252-254, Pl.6. |
Name: | GIBSON, WILLIAM [3] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | Unsuccessful competition entrant. |
Refs: | Freeman's Journal 2-4 Mar 1773 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); for 2 competitions of 1772 and 1773, see S. O'Reilly & Nicholas Robinson, New Lease of Life: The Law Society's building at Blackhall Place (Dublin, 1990), 9. |
Name: | ALLEN, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | Awarded 3rd premium in competition |
Refs: | Freeman's Journal, 28-30 Jan 1773 |
Name: | MORGAN, JOHN [1]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1775 |
Nature: | Simon Vierpyl responsible for ornamental stone carving with John Morgan[1]. |
Refs: | Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 22-29 Aug 1775; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 489; S. O'Reilly, New Lease of Life: the Law Society's Building at Blackhall Place (1990), 27-31 |
Name: | VIERPYL, SIMON * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1775 |
Nature: | SV responsible for ornamental stone carving with John Morgan[1]. |
Refs: |
Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 22-29 Aug 1775; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 489; S. O'Reilly, New Lease of Life: the Law Society's Building at Blackhall Place (1990), 27-31; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 252. |
Name: | THORP, CHARLES [1] * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1778 |
Nature: | CT paid £378.10s.7d for work at same including £70 for Board room ceiling.(Damaged by fire in 1930s and reproduced in papier maché by John Sibthorpe.) |
Refs: | NLI MS,13,659(6) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Blue Coat School MSS (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 76; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 253. |
Name: | CRANFIELD, RICHARD * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1780ca |
Nature: | Woodwork by Cranfield. |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 219; S.O'Reilly and Nicolas K. Robinson, New lease of life: the Law Society's Building at Blackhall Place (1990), 31. |
Name: | WILSON, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1780p |
Nature: | Placed in charge of finishing school after resignation of Thomas Ivory in 1780. |
Refs: |
M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 219-20; Lesley Whiteside, A History of the King's Hospital(1975), 53-55; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 253. . |
Name: | POOL, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1810ca |
Nature: | RP submits design for steeple to Lord Lieutenant for his approval. |
Refs: | NA/SPO 547/353/1 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | KAYE-PARRY, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1890 |
Nature: | New drainage and sanitary arrangements. |
Refs: | IB 32, 15 Nov 1890, 263; Candidate's circular, 6 Nov 1893, submitted to Inst. CE (information from Miss Carol Arrowsmsith, Inst.CE archives) |
Name: | STIRLING, ROBERT JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1894 |
Nature: | Erection of cupola (not to Ivory's design) to complete tower designed by Ivory. |
Refs: | Architect , ? ? 1894, ? (B of I); Sean O'Reilly & N.K. Robinson, New Lease of Life: the Law Society's building at Blackhall Place (1990), 19; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),252. |
Name: | DREW, THOMAS (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1901-04 |
Nature: | Completion of cupola. |
Refs: | IB 43, 30 Jan 1901, 609(or 607?),613(illus.); 45, 24 Sep 1903, 1988; 46, 2 Jul 1904, 401; 71, 5 Jan 1929, 6 |
Name: | SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1930ca |
Nature: | Replacement in papier maché of stucco ceiling in boardroom after damage of original by fire, 1930ca. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 253. |
Name: | HONE, EVIE * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1936 |
Nature: | Stained glass window in chapel, The Risen Christ. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 254. |
Name: | KAYE-PARRY, ROSS & HENDY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHALL PLACE, BLUE COAT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1949 |
Nature: | Sports pavilion. |
Refs: | IB 91, 11 Jun 1949, 548 |