Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE
Name: | SEMPLE, GEORGE [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1751 |
Nature: | Repaired bridge in 10 days after flood. |
Refs: | Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 20-23 Jul 1751; APSD 7, S, 51 |
Name: | WILLS, MICHAEL |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1752 |
Nature: | Proposal for enlarging rather than rebuilding same and plan for a new bridge. (Neither proposal adopted) |
Refs: | A Scheme for enlarging Essex Bridge; whereby, not only three-fourths of the expence of a new bridge will be saved; but the Publick shall enjoy the benefit in six months. Together with a plan for a new bridge (Dublin, 1752); Christine Casey, '"De architectura": an Irish eighteenth-century gloss', Architectural History 37 (1994), 90 |
Name: | SEMPLE, JOHN [1] * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1752 |
Nature: | Helps GS prepare estimate for reconstructing same. |
Refs: | George Semple, A Treatise on Building in Water (1766), 37 |
Name: | HULL, WILLIAM * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1753-1755 |
Nature: | WH one of contractors for same. |
Refs: | Pue's Impartial Occurrences, 14 Jul 1753 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | SEMPLE, GEORGE [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1753-1755 |
Nature: | New bridge. Begun 19 Jan 1753. Finished 11 May 1755. Cost: £20,661.11s.4d. Detailed, illustrated description of building of bridge given by Semple in Treatise on Building in Water. |
Refs: |
George Semple, A Treatise on Building in Water (1766); Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 11-15 Feb,4-7 Jul,10-14 Nov 1752; 16-21 Jan 1753; 19-22 Jun 1756; Walter Harris, History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin (1766), 474-478(illus.); IB 12, 15 Dec 1870, 291-3; APSD 7, S, 51; CARD XI, 186; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 692, 695. |
Name: | MACK, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1753-56 |
Nature: | Built by RM to designs by John Semple. |
Refs: | Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1st edition, 1952), 225; the Dublin entry in APSD, D, 75, dates the bridge to 1753-5. |
Name: | GRIFFITH, JOHN PURSER (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1872 |
Nature: | Design for lowering, ?by RG. |
Refs: | Drawing, s. & d. March 1872 in IAA, Griffith Collection, 85/166.3 |
Name: | STONEY, BINDON BLOOD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1873-74 |
Nature: | Rebuilding to design by BBS (modified from design of Parke Neville). Contractor: William J. Doherty. Opened Oct 1874 (before erection of ironwork) |
Refs: | IB 15, 15 May 1873, 134; 16, 15 Sep,1,15 Oct 1874, 250,264,280,330; 17, 15 Mar 1875, ?; R.C. Cox, Bindon Blood Stoney: Biography of a Port Engineer (Dublin, Institution of Civil Engineers, 1990), 28-31(illus.) |
Name: | NEVILLE, PARKE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1874 |
Nature: | Proposed widening and improvement. Plans modified by Mr Stoney of Port & Docks Board. |
Refs: | IB 16, 15 Oct 1874, 280 |
Name: | DOHERTY, WILLIAM JAMES [1]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1874 |
Nature: | WJD contractor. Designed by B.B. Stoney. |
Refs: | IB 16, 1 Oct 1874, 264; 40, 1 Mar 1898, 38 |
Name: | COURTNEY, STEPHENS & BAILEY * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ESSEX BRIDGE |
Date: | 1874p |
Nature: | Ironwork used in lowering and widening bridge to designs by Bindon B. Stoney. |
Refs: |
Min.Proc.Inst.CE 111 (1892-3), 364; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 695. |