Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, COUNTY GAOL (OLD)

Name: LILLY, CHARLES
Building: CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, COUNTY GAOL (OLD)
Date: 1789
Nature: CL advertises for tenders for erecting same for Co. Down Grand Jury.
Refs: Belfast News Letter, 15-19 May 1789 (Belfast News Letter Index, www.louisiana.ucs.edu)

Name: BRETTINGHAM, ROBERT WILLIAM FURZE #
Building: CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, COUNTY GAOL (OLD)
Date: 1789-96
Nature: By Charles Lilly but based on design by RFB? For Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire.
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 160, citing APSD; E.R.R. Green & F.M. Jope, 'Patron and architect: an example of relations in the late 18th century', Ulster Journal of Archaeology24-25 (1962), 146; D. Dunleath, P.J. Rankin, A.J. Rowan, Historic Buildingsā€¦ in the town of Downpatrick (UAHS, 1970), 10