Selected: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1731 |
Nature: | New house. For John Browne, M.P. (later Earl of Altamont) |
Refs: | Richard Pococke (ed. G.T. Stokes), Tour in Ireland in 1752 (1891), 88 (E.McP files); the Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38 |
Name: | IVORY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | Proposed adds., for Earl of Altamont. Unexecuted but house enlarged to similar plan, probably also by Ivory, completed 1778. |
Refs: | Ground plan, signed and dated 1775, at Westport House; Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, I', Country Life 137, 29 Apr 1965, 1013; E. McParland, 'Thomas Ivory', BIGS 17 (Jan-Jun 1974), 17 |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1781;1796 |
Nature: | Interior of dining room, 1781. Design for greenhouse, 1796. For John Denis, 3rd Earl of Altamont (cr. Marquess of Sligo, 1800). |
Refs: | Signed designs for drawing room, dated 2 Feb 1781, in collection of Marquess of Sligo, Westport House; Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland - II', Country :Life 138, 6 May 1965, 1074(illus.); John Harris, 'The Wyatts at Westport', Connoisseur 62 (1966), 224; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1184; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012),115,116(illus.). |
Name: | HOLLAND, HENRY # |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1808 |
Nature: | Gateway at NE end of town (demolished 1958ca), for 1st Marquess of Sligo. (D. Griffin says identical to main gate at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire) |
Refs: | Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 530, citing MS diary of the Rev. Daniel Beaufort, TCD MS K.6.63, f.75. |
Name: | WYATT, BENJAMIN DEAN # |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1819 |
Nature: | S wing containing library. Destroyed by fire in 1826. For 2nd Marquess of Sligo. |
Refs: | Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland - II', Country :Life 138, 6 May 1965, 1076; John Harris, 'The Wyatts at Westport', Connoisseur 62 (1966), 224; |
Name: | PAPWORTH, JOHN BUONAROTTI # |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1831 |
Nature: | Design for an ice well for 2nd Marquess of Sligo. |
Refs: | Drawing, s & d 1831, in RIBA Drawings Collection, see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: Office of J.B. Papworth (1977), 129. |
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1858 |
Nature: | New principal staircase of Sicilian marble. Made by Italian workmen. Balustrade by Skidmore, Coventry. Cost under £6,000. For George, 3rd Marquess of Sligo. |
Refs: | Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, II', Country Life 137, 5 May 1965, 1077; Denis, 10th Marquess of Sligo, Westport House and the Brownes (1981), 50 |
Name: | KAYE-PARRY & ROSS |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | 1906 |
Nature: | Alts & imps.for 5th Marquess of Sligo. Builder: R.E. Mellon, Rathgar. |
Refs: | IB 48, 24 Mar 1906, 242 |
Name: | PAPWORTH, JOHN BUONAROTTI # |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Design for proposed gates & lodges attributable to JBP on basis of similarity of screen to design in Rural Residences. For Marquess of Sligo. (Executed with one lodge only, which was demolished and replaced by a larger lodge c. 1905.) |
Refs: | Unsigned, undated drawing at Westport House (information and photograph of drawing from J.A.K. Dean in letter of 7 Aug 2001) |
Name: | SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON * |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Decoration of hall. For Marquess of Sligo. |
Refs: | Drawing in IAA, Sibthorpe Collection Acc. 78/22.A1; Westport House- Historical Sketch - Description of Adam and other Decorations restored by H. Sibthorpe & Son, Ltd, pamphlet, n.d.(copy in Irish Architectural Archive, RP.D.22.9) |
Name: | ROMAINE-WALKER, WILLIAM HENRY # |
Building: | CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Designed terraces on garden front for 5th or 6th Marquess of Sligo. |
Refs: | www.buildingsofireland.ie (last visited, Mar 2016). |