Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Name: | CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1775;1787p |
Nature: | Design commissioned Dec 1775. Executed from 1787 onwards under supervision of Christopher and Graham Myers. |
Refs: | James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 242; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151; Country Life 159, 20 May 1976, 1310-1313; Lesley Whiteside, The Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin (Trinity College Chapel Committee, 1998), 6-7; John Redmill, 'The buildings of William Chambers in Dublin' in M. McCarthy, ed., Lord Charlemont and His Circle (2001), 162; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 390,396-7. |
Name: | MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1779ca |
Nature: | CM executant architect for Chamber's designs for chapel (completed after his death under supervision of Graham Myers). |
Refs: | Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),396-398. |
Name: | DARLEY, GEORGE [1]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1787 |
Nature: | Cut-stone work by GD. |
Refs: | TCD Library MUN/P2 Calendar (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Lesley Whiteside, The Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin' (Trinity College Chapel Committee, 1998), 7-8 |
Name: | MYERS, GRAHAM |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1787-1796 |
Nature: | GM executant architect for completion of Chamber's design for chapel (begun under Christopher Myers) |
Refs: |
Bolger MSS, NLI MS 10,711(4) and TCD Misc. Box IV (2228) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); J. Ferrar, View of Dublin (1796), 15; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 397. |
Name: | HENRY, HUGH * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1787-91 |
Nature: | HH employed as carpenter until his death, c.1791. Assisted by William Semple.. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger papers, NA/PRO 1A/58/128; Trinity college muniments, MUN/P/2/166; E.McParland, James Gandon (1985), 47 |
Name: | CRANFIELD, RICHARD * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1787p |
Nature: | Wood carving of interior and stone carving of front by RC, with his son John Smith Cranfield. |
Refs: | Lesley Whiteside, The Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin' (Trinity College Chapel Committee, 1998), 8 |
Name: | STAPLETON, MICHAEL * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1792 |
Nature: | MS paid £1806-8s-3½d for plastering same. |
Refs: | TCD MS A.8 (3688) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | SEMPLE, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1794 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures stonework by JS on new chapel and adjoining buildings, Aug, 1793, and bricklayer's work at new chapel, June 1794. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125,128 |
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1844-45ca |
Nature: | Monument (marble relief) to John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne (1763-1835). |
Refs: | John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 90(illus.),134 |
Name: | CLAYTON & BELL *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1865ca |
Nature: | Stained glass windows on right and left sides of E window in apse. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 398. |
Name: | MCCURDY, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1871 |
Nature: | Repairs & improvements, including tiling of chancel, Irish marble chancel railing. Work carried out by Mssrs. Sibthorpe. Tiles supplied by Maw & Co. Chapel reopened Oct 1871. |
Refs: | IB 13, 1 Nov 1871, 283 |
Name: | MAYER & CO. *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | 1872ca |
Nature: | Stained glass window of Transfiguration in centre of apse. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 398. |
Name: | MALLET, ROBERT [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Circular stairs on each side of chancel designed and erected by RM. |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 299 |