Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, GLENBEIGH TOWERS

Name: CRISP, HENRY #
Building: CO. KERRY, GLENBEIGH TOWERS
Date: 1868-1870
Nature: With Edward William Godwin, for Rowland Wynn. House leaked badly and work was taken over by J.F. Fuller. Winn entered action against Godwin and Crisp for cost of Fuller's successful intervention, 'but the defendants caved in, and the trial never took place'.
Refs: J.F. Fuller, 'Reminiscences of Fifty Years', IB Jubilee Number 1909, 26; J.F. Fuller, Omniana (1916), 203

Name: GODWIN, EDWARD WILLIAM #
Building: CO. KERRY, GLENBEIGH TOWERS
Date: 1868-70
Nature: By Godwin and Henry Crisp for Hon. Rowland Winn. House leaked badly and work was taken over by J.F. Fuller. Winn entered action against Godwin and Crisp for cost of Fuller's successful intervention, 'but the defendants caved in , and the trial never took place'.
Refs: Ground plan and elevation, 1870 in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection PB519/4(1-12) , seeBritish Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/QY0BWPhHh3/MAIN_CAT/201970011/9 (last visited May 2009) and Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 32, (no. 23), see also p. 41 (no. 105) for what may be an early proposal for the house; drawings of house and entrance gate in sketchbook in V & A, E.230-1963 A123B; RA 1868, no. 881; B 28, 21 May (1870), 400; Architect 5, 13 May 1871, 248(illus.; original drawing by Axel Haig in IAA, Acc. 98/35); IB 43, 28 Aug 1902, 1378(illus.); C.L. Eastlake, A History of the Gothic Revival (1872), 426,427; Dudley Harbron, The conscious stone: the life of Edward William Godwin (London, 1949), 70-71,73,93,94; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 136(illus.); Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland, typescript copy of doctoral dissertation, Yale University, 1970, II, 692-3; J.F. Fuller, 'Reminiscences of Fifty Years', IB Jubilee Number 1909, 26; J.F. Fuller, Omniana (1916), 203

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. KERRY, GLENBEIGH TOWERS
Date: 1870p
Nature: JFF called in by Rowland Winn to deal with problem of leaking walls and roofs at 'Rosbeigh Castle'. JFF apparently successful. Foreman: Isaac Abraham. (Winn sued Godwin & Crisp for cost of Fuller's repairs, , 'but the defendants caved in , and the trial never took place'.)
Refs: J.F. Fuller, 'Reminiscences of Fifty Years', IB Jubilee Number 1909, 26; J.F. Fuller, Omniana (1916), 203