Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE

Name: SEMPLE, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1751
Nature: Repaired bridge in 10 days after flood.
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 20-23 Jul 1751; APSD 7, S, 51

Name: WILLS, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1752
Nature: Proposal for enlarging rather than rebuilding same and plan for a new bridge. (Neither proposal adopted)
Refs: A Scheme for enlarging Essex Bridge; whereby, not only three-fourths of the expence of a new bridge will be saved; but the Publick shall enjoy the benefit in six months. Together with a plan for a new bridge (Dublin, 1752); Christine Casey, '"De architectura": an Irish eighteenth-century gloss', Architectural History 37 (1994), 90

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [1] *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1752
Nature: Helps GS prepare estimate for reconstructing same.
Refs: George Semple, A Treatise on Building in Water (1766), 37

Name: HULL, WILLIAM *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1753-1755
Nature: WH one of contractors for same.
Refs: Pue's Impartial Occurrences, 14 Jul 1753 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: SEMPLE, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1753-1755
Nature: New bridge. Begun 19 Jan 1753. Finished 11 May 1755. Cost: £20,661.11s.4d. Detailed, illustrated description of building of bridge given by Semple in Treatise on Building in Water.
Refs: George Semple, A Treatise on Building in Water (1766); Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 11-15 Feb,4-7 Jul,10-14 Nov 1752; 16-21 Jan 1753; 19-22 Jun 1756; Walter Harris, History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin (1766), 474-478(illus.); IB 12, 15 Dec 1870, 291-3; APSD 7, S, 51; CARD XI, 186;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 692, 695.

Name: MACK, ROBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1753-56
Nature: Built by RM to designs by John Semple.
Refs: Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1st edition, 1952), 225; the Dublin entry in APSD, D, 75, dates the bridge to 1753-5.

Name: GRIFFITH, JOHN PURSER (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1872
Nature: Design for lowering, ?by RG.
Refs: Drawing, s. & d. March 1872 in IAA, Griffith Collection, 85/166.3

Name: STONEY, BINDON BLOOD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1873-74
Nature: Rebuilding to design by BBS (modified from design of Parke Neville). Contractor: William J. Doherty. Opened Oct 1874 (before erection of ironwork)
Refs: IB 15, 15 May 1873, 134; 16, 15 Sep,1,15 Oct 1874, 250,264,280,330; 17, 15 Mar 1875, ?; R.C. Cox, Bindon Blood Stoney: Biography of a Port Engineer (Dublin, Institution of Civil Engineers, 1990), 28-31(illus.)

Name: NEVILLE, PARKE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1874
Nature: Proposed widening and improvement. Plans modified by Mr Stoney of Port & Docks Board.
Refs: IB 16, 15 Oct 1874, 280

Name: DOHERTY, WILLIAM JAMES [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1874
Nature: WJD contractor. Designed by B.B. Stoney.
Refs: IB 16, 1 Oct 1874, 264; 40, 1 Mar 1898, 38

Name: COURTNEY, STEPHENS & BAILEY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Date: 1874p
Nature: Ironwork used in lowering and widening bridge to designs by Bindon B. Stoney.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 111 (1892-3), 364;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 695.