Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Milanese architect practising in England, for biography of whom see Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 271-272. Columbani is said to have worked in a supervisory capacity for Frederick Hervey, Earl Bishop of Derry, at Downhill, Co. Derry, 1783-5. The Bishop's 'Casino' in Bishop Street Without, Derry, built before 1784, has also been attributed to him. He described bimself as a 'particular friend' of ROGER MULHOLLAND. ROGER MULHOLLAND.

The Irish Architectural Archive holds FRANCIS JOHNSTON' FRANCIS JOHNSTON' s copy of Columbani's New Book of Ornaments (1775)(Acc. 77/6.1).



References

Information in this entry not otherwise attibuted is from Peter Rankin, Irish building ventures of the Earl Bishop of Derry (UAHS, 1972), 14-15.


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Building: CO. DERRY, DOWNHILL
Date: 1783-1785
Nature: PC said to have worked in a supervisory capacity and on plumbing
Refs: Peter Rankin, Irish Building Ventures of the Earl Bishop of Derry (UAHS, 1972), 13-14.

Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP ST WITHOUT, CASINO
Date: 1784a
Nature: Summer palace for Bishop of Derry, attr. to PC.
Refs: J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 203