Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET SOUTH, NO. 046-50 (GAIETY THEATRE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: CALDBECK, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET SOUTH, NO. 046-50 (GAIETY THEATRE)
Date: 1870
Nature: New theatre for 1300 to 1400 persons proposed to be erected in South King St by Mssrs. Gunn of Grafton St.  Application for patent for same considered by Arrorney General and Solicitor General, 23 Feb 1870.
Refs: Irish Times, 24,26 Feb 1870.

Name: PHIPPS, CHARLES JOHN #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET SOUTH, NO. 046-50 (GAIETY THEATRE)
Date: 1871
Nature: New theatre for Mssrs. Gunn. .Drawings inspected by Irish Times correspondent, 4 Feb 1871.  FS laid 1 Jul 1871 by Lord Mayor. Opened 27 Nov 1871. Contractor: Meade & Son.
Refs: Irish Times, 7 Feb,27 May 1871;  IB 12, 1 May 1870, 99; 13, 1 Feb,1,15 Jul,1 Nov 1871, 30,175,188,280; 45, 3 Dec 1903, 3007; 76, 1 Dec 1934, 1017; B 29, 28 Jan,8 Jul,2 Dec 1871, 64,531,942; Architect 6, 15 Jul 1871, 35;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 549.

Name: MATCHAM, FRANK #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET SOUTH, NO. 046-50 (GAIETY THEATRE)
Date: 1883
Nature: Parterre and grand circle bars in extension to W of theatre.
Refs: 12 undated drawings for Gaiety Theatre [Dublin?], in Victoria & Albert Museum Theatre Collections, THM/2/58;  www.gaiety theatre.ie   

Name: PHIPPS, CHARLES JOHN #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET SOUTH, NO. 046-50 (GAIETY THEATRE)
Date: 1891
Nature: Redecoration and refurbishment, including new fibrous plaster ceiling, tympanum, panels, groins, fronts of upper circle and private boxes by George Jackson & Sons, London. For Michael Gunn.
Refs: Irish Times, 1,3 Aug 1891.

Name: ASHWORTH, CHARLES HERBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET SOUTH, NO. 046-50 (GAIETY THEATRE)
Date: 1912
Nature: Reopened, 19 Aug 1912, after remodelling, incorporating adjacent house. New front, new veranda and lamps, new seating in dress circle, new stairs to upper circle and gallery, new and enlarged dressing rooms, &c. Structural contractors: H. & J. Martin. Wrought iron veranda by Mssrs. McGloughlin.
Refs: Irish Times, 16 Aug 1912.

Name: O'CONNOR & AYLWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET SOUTH, NO. 046-50 (GAIETY THEATRE)
Date: 1951;1954-55
Nature: New parterre bar & alts. to coffee room and? dress circle bar, 1951. Further alts., 1954-55
Refs: IB 93, 15 Sep 1951, 964; 96, 27 Feb 1954; 97, 26 Mar,17 Dec 1955, 3111299