Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE |
Date: | 1740 |
Nature: | For Robert Rochfort, M.P, lst Baron Belfield (later 1st Earl of Belvedere).. |
Refs: | The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 168 (Pl. 66) |
Name: | CRAMILLION, BARTHELEMY *# |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE |
Date: | 1760ca |
Nature: | Hall, drawing-room and dining-room ceilings attr. to Cramillion by J. McDonnell. |
Refs: | Joseph McDonnell, Irish eighteenth-century Stuccowork and its European Sources(1991), 13,26, pls. 126-131; see also M. Girouard, 'Belvedere House, Co. Westmeath - II', Country Life 129, 29 Jun 1961, 1539; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993) 169. |
Name: | VALLENTINE, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE |
Date: | 1768a |
Nature: | TV worked on gardens at Belvedere, 'the major Part of which were made immediately under said Gardner's Direction, during his service with him[Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere]'. |
Refs: | R.S. Gottesman, The Arts and Crafts in New York(New York Historical Society, 1938), 302 |
Name: | SYMES, SANDHAM |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE |
Date: | 1857 |
Nature: | Proposed imps., for Charles Brinsley Marlay. |
Refs: | Orla McShane, 'The Life and Times of Sandham Symes, Jr', unpublished thesis submitted to Trinity College, Dublin, for Moderatorship Part II Examination, 1988, 30-32, Pls.74-82, citing 2 sets of drawings by SS, dated Sep & Oct 1857 |
Name: | DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE |
Date: | 1884 |
Nature: | Terrace balustrade on garden front, for Charles Brinsley Marlay. |
Refs: | Plan, detail and elevation, s. & d. Walter G. Doolin, 7 Jul 1884, in Mullingar Library (half-size photocopy in Jones File D71) |
Name: | BARRADOTTE, - # |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Gothick ruin folly. |
Refs: | Note in B. of I. files, citing J.C. Lyons, ref. not given but probably article by Mark Girouard in Country Life |
Name: | WRIGHT, THOMAS # |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, BELVEDERE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Artificial ruin and Jealous Wall both similar to plates from Wright's Six Original Designs of Grottos. |
Refs: | Eileen Harris, 'Architect of Rococo landscapes: Thomas Wright - III', Country Life150, 9 Sep 1971, 615(illus.); E. Malins & the Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (1976), 119; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 171, Pl.92; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 1169. |