Selected: CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL
Name: | BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL |
Date: | 1790-1794 |
Nature: | Interested himself in design of house (by F.Johnston) |
Refs: | Frank Mitchell, 'The Evolution of Townley Hall', BIGS 30 (1987) |
Name: | PLAYFAIR, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL |
Date: | 1792 |
Nature: | Unexecuted design for house prepared in Rome for Blayney Townley Balfour, Apr 1792. |
Refs: | Plans and sections in IAA, Townley Hall Collection, Acc. 85/156 (repr. D.J. Griffin and S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (1993), 40-41); drawings, one dated 13 Apr 1792, in NLI, Townley Hall papers, MS 9593; duplicate set in National Monuments Record Scotland, Edinburgh (with original sketch designs that JP made for Townley in Rome tipped in); E & W elevations in RIBA Drawings Collection (see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects O-R (1974), 78); John Ingamells, ed., A Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800 (1997), 44,775. |
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL |
Date: | 1794-1802 |
Nature: | New classical house, for Blayney Townley Balfour. |
Refs: | Elevation of principal front and plan and elevation of unexecuted entrance gates and railing, dated 1802, in IAA, Murray Collection, 1172,1173 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 333-334); drawings by FJ dated 1794-1797 in IAA, Townley Hall Collection, Acc. 85/156; elevation of gate lodge in NLI MS 46,593; photostats of plans & estimates in NLI, AD 1951-2027; C. Hussey, 'Townley Hall', Country Life 104, 23,30 Jul 1948, 178-81,228-31'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 2; E. McParland, 'Francis Johnston, Architect', BIGS 12 , nos. 3 & 4 (Jul-Dec 1969), 64-73(illus.); Frank Mitchell, 'The evolution of Townley Hall', BIGS 30 (1987), 3-61; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 503-508 (Pls. 81,82) |
Name: | DARLEY, HUGH * |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | HD had some connection with Townley Hall. |
Refs: | E.McP files, citing TCD MS 3771 (information given to him by R. Loeber) |