Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1802
Nature: Unexecuted designs, for Lord Lieutenant, Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke..
Refs: See E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),358

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1807-1814
Nature: FS laid 15 Feb 1807. Opened for worship on Christmas Day, 1814.
Refs: 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3; Board of Works Minute Book 2, 10 Mar 1807 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); 'Annals of Dublin' in Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac (1847); article by Rev. H.J. Lawlor, on Dublin Castle Chapel in JRSAI 12 or 13 (noted in IB 65, 3 Nov 1923); IB 17, 15 Feb 1875, 45; 21, 1 Apr 1879, 111; 38, 1 Mar, 1 Jul 1896, 48,140; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 358-60, Pl.52;  Judith Hill,  '"A stile more suited to Vice-regal splendor": The building of the Chapel Royal, 1807-14' in Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History (Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015), 39-53 (illus.).

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1807p
Nature: External carving and interior plasterwork, with John Smyth. Unfinished at time of death.
Refs: Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 72;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 359;  Rita Larkin,  '"One guinea per head more": The figurative ornament of Edward and John Smyth'
in Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History (Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015), 55-69(illus.).

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1807p
Nature: External carving and internal plasterwork.  With Edward Smyth. Completed by JS after ES's death.
Refs: Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 72;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 359;  Rita Larkin,  '"One guinea per head more": The figurative ornament of Edward and John Smyth'
in Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History (Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015), 55-69(illus.).

Name: STEWART, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1810a
Nature: JS paid 13 guineas for carving in same.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128.

Name: STEWART, RICHARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1810a;1825ca
Nature:  Carving, initially executed with his father; also Wellesley arms, c. 1825. Extensive decorative woodcarving in interior (pulpit now in St Werburgh's church).
Refs: NA/SPO 558AAE/984 and 984/2 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 343,359, Pl.53. 

Name: STAPLETON, GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1812-1813
Nature: GS's bills for plasterwork measured 1812 (£1023-14s-6d), 1813 (£1741-10s-5½d).
Refs: Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 359.

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Pulpit in Chapel Royal.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Jun 1860, 274;  Myles Campbell, '"Throw open those privileged pens": The changing face of the Chapel Royal, 1815-2015' in Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History (Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015), 133-134(illus.). 

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: 1922
Nature: Armorial glass  in aisle windows commemorating former Lord Lieutenants (Viscounts French, Fitzalan & Wimborne, & Marquess of Aberdeen,).
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 45;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 360.
 

Name: BRADLEY, JOSHUA *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Panels depicting four Evangelists in lower part of E. Window. Signed 'J. Bradley'. (St Matthew panel may be by James Donovan.) Probably also three lights at apex of window (four lights of central register ares 15th century continental glass). Paid £182.
Refs: A.M. Fraser, 'George McAllister, Glass-Painter', Dublin Historical Record 9 (1947-1948), 134;  Myles Campbell, '"Throw open those privileged pens": The changing face of the Chapel Royal, 1815-2015' in Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History (Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015), 125-7 (illus.).

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Ventilation and hot water heating system.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 299