Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, FRONT SQUARE, CAMPANILE

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, FRONT SQUARE, CAMPANILE
Date: 1852-54
Nature: 1st stone laid 1 Dec 1852. Statues of Divinity, Science, Medicine and Law by Joseph Robinson Kirk. Cost: £3,500. Builder: Henry Kingsmill.
Refs: Trinity College muniments, MUN/P/2/322; B 10, 30 Apr,17 Jul 1852, 269,460; 11, 1 Jan,24 Sep,29 Oct 1853, 8,611,672; 12, 18 Nov 1854, 594; 13, 19 May 1855, 234,235(illus.); DB 4, 1 Aug 1862, 200; R.B. McDowell, 'th Campanile - A Centenary', Trinity, no. 4 (Michaelmas 1952), 21-23;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 399-400.



Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, FRONT SQUARE, CAMPANILE
Date: 1854
Nature: Statues of Divinity, Law, Physic and Science on campanile.
Refs: Sketch models exh. RHA 1854, nos. 281,282,285,286;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 173(illus.); given to Thomas Kirk in Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 335.