Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of London, for whom see Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 (revised edition, [1968]), 22. For Ireland Atkinson made the elaborate neo-classical monument to Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough (d. 1758), and his first wife in Fiddown CI church, Co. Kilkenny.(1)



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(1) Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 25(illus.),34.


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Building: CO. KILKENNY, FIDDOWN, CHURCH (CI, FIDDOWN PARISH, OLD)
Date: 1758p
Nature: Neo-classical monument to Brabazon Ponsonby, lst Earl of Bessborough, d. 1758, and his first wife, Sarah (née Margetson).
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 25(illus.),34.