Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1750-1757 |
Nature: | RC's design carried out by John Ensor, with modifications. FS laid Jul 1751. Completed, 1757. |
Refs: |
Registry of Deeds, Vol. 134, pp. 37-9, no. 89277, and Vol. 139, pp.332 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 2-6 Jul 1751; James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated; C.P. Curran, The Rotunda Hospital: its Architects and Craftsmen (Dublin, 1945); The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; Ian Campbell Ross, ed., Public Virtue, Public Love; th early years of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital (1986), 23-24,65-66; D.J. Griffin & S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (Dublin, 1993), 27; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 30,162-164, Pl. 30. |
Name: | ENSOR, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1750-1757 |
Nature: | Richard Castle's design carried out by JE, with modifications. |
Refs: | Rotunda Hospital MSS; The Case of Bartholomew Mosse (1755) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); C.P. Curran, The Rotunda Hospital: its Architects and Craftsmen (Dublin, 1945); The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; D.J. Griffin & S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (Dublin, 1993), 27; Ian Campbell Ross,, ed., Public Virtue, Public Love; th early years of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital (1986), 23-24,65-66; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),162-164. |
Name: | HUTCHINS, WILLIAM * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1750s |
Nature: | Wrought-iron handrail of principal stair. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 163. |
Name: | CRAMILLION, BARTHELEMY *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1755-1758 |
Nature: | Plasterwork and altarpiece in chapel; ceiling of room in gardens. |
Refs: | C.P. Curran, Dublin decorative plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 51-55, pls. III (facing p. 14), 72-81; Joseph McDonnell, Irish eighteenth-century Stuccowork and its European Sources(1991), 13-15, 24-25, 125-127, frontispiece, pls. 104-7; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 163-4 . |
Name: | WEST, ROBERT * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1756a |
Nature: | RW paid £534.8s.8 1/2d for cornices and plastering, 1 Dec 1756 and £460.1s.2 1/2d, for plaster and stucco, 6 Dec 1756. Work 'presumably included the ornamental work on the staircase ceiling and walls; as well as the soffits of the gallery in the Chapel' (McDonnell). Casey also gives ceiling of entrance hall RW. |
Refs: | C.P. Curran, The Rotunda Hospital: its architects and craftsmen (1945), 23; C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries(1967), 51-56, Pls. 72-81; Joseph McDonnell, Irish eighteenth-century stuccowork and its European sources (National Gallery of Ireland, 1991), 21,24-25, Pls.132,133; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 163. |
Name: | CIPRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1759 |
Nature: | C. in negotiation with Dr Mosse about decoration of chapel ceiling |
Refs: | M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 145 |
Name: | TRENCH, MICHAEL FREDERICK |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1790ca |
Nature: | Pavilions at ends of colonnades flanking hospital building attr. to Trench by Warburton, Whitelaw and Walsh but to Gandon by E. McParland. |
Refs: | J. Warburton, J. Whitelaw and R. Walsh, History of the City of Dublin (1818), 672, but see also E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), 91 |
Name: | OWEN, JACOB |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1863 |
Nature: | Alterations to and renovations of chapel. JO furnished plans 'gratuitously'. Work carried out by Bennett, caninet maker & upholsterer, Henry Street. Chapel reopened 29 Nov 1863. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 27 Nov,1 Dec 1863. |
Name: | BUTLER, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS(?) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1878 |
Nature: | FAB makes survey of building in or before 1876 and designs alterations & improvements |
Refs: | Irish Times, 1 Mar 1876; B 36, 12 Jan 1878, 45; IB 18, 1 Mar 1876, 69; 20, 15 Jan 1878, 27 |
Name: | MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1893-95 |
Nature: | AEM winner of competition to design new Thomas Plunket Cairnes wing. 3 storeys. Contract signed 3 Nov 1893. Opened 27 Nov 1895. Contractor: James Kiernan, Talbot St. Sanitary arrangements and gas fittings by Maguire, Dawson St. Cost: £12,000. |
Refs: |
Design exh. RHA 1893, no. 448; IB 35, 15 Jul 1893, 162(illus.),165; 37, 1 Dec 1895, 281; 39, 15 Mar 1897, 58; Irish Times, 24 May,10 Oct 1894; Irish Times, 2 Apr 1895. |
Name: | MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1905-07 |
Nature: | New wing providing 6 additional wards, accommodation for nurses & c. on site of colonnade on W side of main block. Cost about £8,000.. Contractor: B. White. Opened by Countess of Aberdeen, 27 Aug 1907. Steelwork, fire resisting floors and flat roofs by Homan & Rogers, Manchester. Plumbing and heating by Howard MacGarvey, Lombard St. |
Refs: | Drawings by Murray and Homan & Rogers in IAA, Alan Hope Collection, Acc. 86/127, Folder 1; IB 47, 28 Jan,11 Feb,4 Nov 1905, 62,81,761,773; 48, 19 May,3 Nov 1906, 386,888; Irish Times, 28 Aug 1907; design exh. RHA 1915, no. 479 |
Name: | MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1912 |
Nature: | Alts. & imps. in formation of new labour wards in Plunkett Cairnes wing. Contractor: B. Whyte, Summerhill. |
Refs: |
IB 54, 3 Feb 1912, 78; Irish Times, 7 Mar 1912. |
Name: | MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1913 |
Nature: | Reconstruction of students' quarters,comprising new roms, bathrooms, lavatories, heating, electricity &c. Contractor: B. White, Summerhill. Electric work by Coates, Leinster St; plumbing by Coates, Leinster St; heating by Maguire & Gatchell. |
Refs: | IB 15, 10 May 1913, 319 |
Name: | HICKS, FREDERICK GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1929;1931-32 |
Nature: | Alts. & adds. |
Refs: | IB 71, 2 Mar 1929, 194; 73, 26 Sep 1931, 830; 74, 13 Feb 1932, 137; 77, 6 Apr 1935, 269 |
Name: | HICKS, FREDERICK GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1934-36 |
Nature: | New nurses' home and out-patients' dept. Tenders invited for erection of nurses' home, Nov 1934. Plans for outpatients' dept. approved by Dublin Corporation, Dec 1934. Tenders invited for carrying out proposed alterations and additions to main building, Apr 1935. |
Refs: | Design for nurses' home exh. RHA 1936 (no. 292); Irish Times, 6 Nov 1934, 8 Apr 1935; ; IB 76, 17 Nov 1934, 1003; 77, 12 Jan 1935, 29; 78, 2 May 1936, 358; AJ 89, 22 Jun 1939, 1086 |
Name: | HICKS, FREDERICK GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1937-1940 |
Nature: | Rebuilding of students' quarters. |
Refs: | IB 79, 16 Oct 1937, 928; 80, 20 Aug 1938, 710; 82, 25 May 1940, 339(illus.). Contractor: E. Stone & Sons, Ringsend. |
Name: | HOPE, JOHN # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1949;1952;1958 |
Nature: | In-patients'dept., staff room, fire escape, alts., 1949; extension, 1952; temporary paediatric unit in gardens. |
Refs: | IB 91, 3 Sep,15 Oct,24 Dec 1949,822,964,1218; 94, 25 Oct 1952, 1015; 100, 23 Aug 1958, 608; Luan P. Cuffe, Architectural Survey (1953), 6-7(illus.) |
Name: | SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Redecoration of chapel. |
Refs: | Photograph of work in progress from Sibthorpe collection in IAA Reading Room Box Files (012/051 Y14) |