Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, ANTRIM CASTLE

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, ANTRIM CASTLE
Date: 1813-1818
Nature: Works at same.
Refs: Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 6; W.D. Girvan, R. Oram, A. Rowan, Historic Buildings…in Antrim & Ballymena (UAHS, 1969), 6; PRONI Ferrard MSS. T2519/4/1996

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, ANTRIM CASTLE
Date: 1824a
Nature: 'The gate house, leading from the town of Antrim to the Castle court has also been added by the present possessor [Thomas Henry Skeffington, Viscount Ferrard] and is remarkable for the sympathetic hinges on which the massive gates are opened and closed'. Tudor style.
Refs: J.P. Neale, Views of Seats (2nd series), II (VIII) (1825), no. 55; for description see also Irish Penny Journal, 17 Apr 1841, 329-30; J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms, 2nd ser. II (1855), 70.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, ANTRIM CASTLE
Date: 1824a.
Nature: Undergoing repairs, 1823 or 1824. For Thomas Henry Skeffington, Viscount Ferrard. 'The exterior towards the Court has been recently restored by the present possessor to the character of the period in which it was originally erected.' Demolished, 1970.)
Refs: Pigot and Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824), ?; J.P. Neale, Views of Seats (2nd series), II (VIII) (1825), no. 55; for description see also Irish Penny Journal, 17 Apr 1841, 329-30; J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms, 2nd ser. II (1855), 70.

Name: FENNELL, WILLIAM JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, ANTRIM CASTLE
Date: 1884a
Nature: Gate lodge, for Lord Massereene. Unexecuted.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1884, no. 365; IB 27, 1 Oct 1885, 270,271(illus.); J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 2 (no. 12, illus.)

Name: FENNELL, WILLIAM JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, ANTRIM CASTLE
Date: 1898
Nature: Restoration of keep in deer park to be carried out for Viscount Massereene & Ferrard.
Refs: IB 40 , 1 Jul 1898, 100