Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ROTUNDA GARDENS

Name: STEVENSON, ROBERT [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ROTUNDA GARDENS
Date: 1749a
Nature: RS paid for designing Rotunda Gardens. Gardens first illuminated in 1749.
Refs: Rotunda MSS (Old Records, &c.) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 220.

Name: ENSOR, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ROTUNDA GARDENS
Date: 1763
Nature: Orchestra, constructed by Simon Vierpyl under direction of JE.
Refs: Rotunda Hospital MSS; Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (lst edition, 1952), 143; Ian Campbell Ross,, ed., Public Virtue, Public Love; th early years of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital (1986), 70,110

Name: NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ROTUNDA GARDENS
Date: ?
Nature: Metal statues of Antinous, Venus de Medici, Mercury, Apollo, Janus and sitting Venus. For Bartholomew Mosse.
Refs: Ian Campbell Ross, ed., Public Virtue, Public Love: the early years of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital (1986), 70,29