Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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Refs: Orla McShane, 'The Life and Times of Sandham Symes, Jr', unpublished thesis submitted to Trinity College, Dublin, for Moderatorship Part II Examination, 1988, 30-32, Pls.74-82, citing 2 sets of drawings by SS, dated Sep & Oct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.