Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Name: | JONES, JAMES [1] |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1835p |
Nature: | Proposed portico (not executed). Addition of nursery wing, started shortly after 1835. Dining room. Also stables and colonnaded 'Rides'? For Col. John Madden. |
Refs: |
Signed, undated elevation and plan of portico (and similar unsigned design) in coll. of John Madden, Hilton Park; (photocopy in Irish Architectural Archive, 86/129.1/2); journals of John Madden (1836-1902) in same coll. say that nursery wing 'was admirably bult from the plans of a Mr Jones of Dundalk, an architect and builder'; information from John Madden, Hilton Park; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 353,355,356. |
Name: | NIVEN, NINIAN |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1870ca |
Nature: | Formal gardens and terraces. NN visited house in Dec 1870. |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 356 |
Name: | LANYON, CHARLES (SIR) |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1871 |
Nature: | CL visits house re rebuilding of house destroyed by fire in 1803 (but William Hague chosen as architect for same). Client: John Madden. |
Refs: | PRONI Madden MSS, D/3465, see Peter Collins, County Monaghan Sources in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (1998), 117. |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1872-75 |
Nature: | Extensive alts., portico, refacing of exterior, excavation of ground round basement, &c., for John Madden. |
Refs: |
Set of signed drawings, some dated or postmaked 1872,1873, 1874, at Hilton Park (photographs and handlist in IAA); letters from WH to John Madden, 1872-75 in Madden MSS in PRONI D3465/J/20 (see PRONI e-catalogue); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 153; Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 722-726(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 352-356, Pl.99. |
Name: | FITZPATRICK & MOLLOY * |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1873ca |
Nature: | Carved capitals for porte cochère. |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 354 |
Name: | MONTGOMERY, ROBERT # |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1875ca |
Nature: | Carved coat of arms in pediment for £10.10s., for John Madden, who thought the work 'badly done'. |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 354. |
Name: | SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON * |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1877ca |
Nature: | Encaustic tiles in entrance hall supplied by HS & Son, for John Madden |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 354. |
Name: | MAYER & CO. *# |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK |
Date: | 1878 |
Nature: | Heraldic stained glass in stair hall. Installed by Walter Wells in 1878. |
Refs: | Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 355 |