Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1759
Nature: 'Smith Architect' paid £22.15s. for plan for same but may not be responsible for building as executed. For Provost Francis Andrews. (Facade copied from Lord Burlington's design for house for General Wade in Mayfair.)
Refs: Georgian Society Records (1909-13), III, 51-56, Pls. 1-12; Maurice Craig, 'John Smyth and the Provost's House, Dublin', Connoisseur (Apr 1960, 148-155(illus.); arguments against Smith's authorship are rehearsed in E. McParland, 'An Academic Palazzo in Ireland- the Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin - I'', Country Life 160, 14 Oct 1976, 1034-1037 (the second, concluding article is in Country Life 160, 21 Oct 1976, 1106-1109); F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 125ff.;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 393,395-6.

Name: KEENE, HENRY #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1759
Nature: Payment to 'Keen' of £108.6s.8d. recorded 1764 may refer to Provost's House.
Refs: See E. McParland, 'An Academic Palazzo in Ireland- the Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin - I'', Country Life 160, 14 Oct 1976, 1035-6;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 395-6.

Name: WALL, PATRICK & JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1759p
Nature: Stuccowork throughout house. For Provost Francis Andrews.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 41,394.

Name: TURNER, TIMOTHY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1761;1763
Nature: Wrought-iron balustrade to back stair, 1761, and to principal stair, 1763.
Refs: Miriam O'Connor, 'Timothy Turner, an eighteenth-century Dublin ironsmith', Irish Arts Review 12 (1996), 142(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 395.

Name: CRANFIELD, RICHARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1771
Nature: Carving and gilding by Cranfield.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 219

Name: MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1775
Nature: Doubling in depth of N pavilion, for Provost John Hely Hutchinson
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 393n.

Name: MALLET, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1822
Nature: JM paid £26-5s-3½d. for plumbing work.
Refs: Trinity College muniments, MUN/P/2/251.

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1841
Nature: Designs for stables, railing.
Refs: Wide Street Commissioners maps, 190,193 (or 198?) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)