Selected: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, CARYSFORT AVENUE, STILLORGAN PARK HOUSE
Name: | PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, CARYSFORT AVENUE, STILLORGAN PARK HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Unexecuted plans for Palladian remodelling of house. Obelisk (executed), designed as mausoleum for Lady Allen. Also water feature with grotto (executed). For John Joshua, 2nd Viscount Allen. |
Refs: | Drawings in 'Stillorgan Album' in collection of Proby family, Elton Hall, Hunts., and in V & A, Elton Hall Collection (see Howard Colvin and Maurice Craig, Architectural Drawings in the library of Elton Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh and Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1964), xlv, 3(no.19), 4(nos. 20,23), 7(nos.44,46), 14(no. 93), 37 (nos. 252 & 253), Pls.73,77-80; photographs of these and drawings in Stillorgan photo box in IAA); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 265(illus.) |
Name: | LEGGETT, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, CARYSFORT AVENUE, STILLORGAN PARK HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Landscape improvements. |
Refs: | R. Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 423. |