Name: |
GAMBLE, MATTHEW * |
Building: |
CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI) |
Date: |
1790-92 |
Nature: |
MG employed as clerk of works. |
Refs: |
Letter from Matthew Gamble to the 2nd Marquess of Downshire, Down, 17 December 1795, in PRONI, DOD 607, Box 2, 1796-7, reproduced by E.R.R. Green & F.M. Jope, 'Patron and architect: an example of relations in the late 18th century', in Ulster Journal of Archaeology 24-25 (1961-2), 150-151.
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Name: |
LILLY, CHARLES |
Building: |
CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI) |
Date: |
1790-92 |
Nature: |
Restoration, for 1st Marquess of Downshire, and Dean William Annesley. (Richardson suggest that Lilly was responsible for exterior, then fell out with Dean on taking him to law for non-payment of fees, and R.F. Brettingham responsible for interior; however Lilly was called upon to report on 'the present state of the cathedral' in 1809, see letter from Thomas Handley to Dean Annesley in PRONI, D607/I/158.)
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Refs: |
Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 189; Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 103
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Name: |
BRETTINGHAM, ROBERT WILLIAM FURZE # |
Building: |
CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI) |
Date: |
1795 |
Nature: |
Design for refitting choir exh. at RA. Richardson suggests that Charles Lilly was responsible for exterior, then fell out with Dean on taking him to law for non-payment of fees, so that R.W.F. Brettingham was made responsible for interior. |
Refs: |
RA 1795, no. 692 (view of cathedral 'as restored' exhib. by B's pupil, S. Woolley, at RA in 1798); Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 189
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Name: |
COBDEN, THOMAS ALFRED |
Building: |
CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI) |
Date: |
1829 |
Nature: |
Completion of tower by 'Cobden and Sands' of London to design by William Farrell. |
Refs: |
Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 102; J. Frederick Rankin, Down Cathedral (1997), 123; ; Thomas McDonnell, 'Thomas A. Cobden, 1794-1842: an architect in Co. Carlow', Carlow History and Society (Dublin, 2008), 627.
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Name: |
WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: |
CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI) |
Date: |
1862-65 |
Nature: |
Various works 'according to plans furnished by the Ecclesiastical Commissoners' architects'. including repair of roof, tower, walls, pinnacles, replacing of 'unshapely' pews, colouring of piers, shafts & groins of arches, and roof 'a delicate salmon pink', &c. Re-opened 10 Dec 1863. Superintending architect: William Fullerton, Armagh. Contractor: George Stockdale, Downpatrick.
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Refs: |
DB 4, 1 Mar 1862, 58; 6, 2 Jan 1864, 14; 7, 1 Apr 1865, 65; B 19, ? ? 1861, 722; 22, ? ? 1864, 14; Irish Times, 15 Dec 1863.
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