Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of London, and pioneer of radial planning in prison design, for whom see Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 126-128. At the age of nineteen he submitted designs in the Dublin Royal Exchange competition, which was won by THOMAS COOLEY THOMAS COOLEY .   He designed Limerick Gaol, c. 1789, and also designed alterations to Newgate Gaol, Dublin.

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3 work entries listed in chronological order for BLACKBURN, WILLIAM #


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CORK HILL, ROYAL EXCHANGE
Date: 1768-69
Nature: Competition entrant
Refs: B 27, 2 Oct 1869, 781

Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, COUNTY GAOL (OLD)
Date: 1789ca
Nature: Designed by WB. Executant architect: - Smyth?
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008),127, citing John Chambers, 'Collections for Biography of English Architects', RIBA, & J. Howard, Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe (1789), 91; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 52-53.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GREEN STREET, NEWGATE PRISON
Date: ?
Nature: Alterations
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 127, citing DNB.