Selected: CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE
Name: | LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE |
Date: | 1871-72 |
Nature: | 7-bay, 3-storey Italianate house with campanile,built of Ardbraccan limestone. Cost over £70,000. Contractor: James Henry, Belfast. For Thomas Gerrard, DL. House badly damaged by fire in 1912 & rebuilt under supervision of J.F. Fuller. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS 0959, 1229, also album of photographs taken after fire for fire damage purposes; IB 16, 15 Jan 1874, 17; 53, 15 Apr 1911, 234; 54, 13,27 Apr 1912, 213,266; 67, 12 Dec 1925, 1020; Kevin Mulligan, Buildings of Meath (2001), 126-7(illus.). |
Name: | LYNN, SAMUEL FERRES * |
Building: | CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE |
Date: | 1874 |
Nature: | Panels representing the Seasons on main staircase. (Staircase later demolished.) |
Refs: |
W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 35; photographs in IAA. |
Name: | FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN |
Building: | CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE |
Date: | 1912-14 |
Nature: | Rebuilding after fire in April 1912, for Thomas Gerrard, DL. Builder: G. & T. Crampton. £23,739. Plasterer: George Rome. |
Refs: |
IAA, PKS 0003. A09 (Sep,Oct 1912,Nov 1914); IB 54, 54, 13,27 Apr,21 Dec 1912, 213,266,728; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 211-12; Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 28-31(illus.) |