Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, CATHEDRAL SQUARE, BISHOP'S PALACE

Name: HALFPENNY, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, CATHEDRAL SQUARE, BISHOP'S PALACE
Date: 1739
Nature: Unexecuted designs possibly for Bishop's Palace for Thomas Milles, Bishop of Waterford, in RIBA Drawings Collection.
Refs: Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, G-K (1973), 82-3; John Harris, The Palladians (RIBA Drawings Series, 1982), 100(illus.)

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, CATHEDRAL SQUARE, BISHOP'S PALACE
Date: 1749?
Nature: New building incorporating earlier structure. For Charles Este, Bishop of Waterford (1740-1746). Unfinished at time of RC's death.  Girouard suggests that RC may have adapted William Halfpenny's design of 1739.
Refs: TCD MS 1743 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); the Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38;  Mark Girouard, 'The reign of the building families: City of Waterford, Ireland - II', Country Life 141, 8 Dec 1966, 1563;  A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 731.
 

Name: ROBERTS, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, CATHEDRAL SQUARE, BISHOP'S PALACE
Date: 1775a
Nature: Completion, for Richard Chenevix, who became Bishop of Waterford in 1746..
Refs: Letter from Richard Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford, to William Gore, Bishop of Limerick, 16 May 1775, in NLI, Limerick MSS., PC 875, 19/7; Mark Girouard, 'The reign of the building families: City of Waterford, Ireland - II',Country Life 141, 15 Dec 1966, 1627