Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE

Name: SANDYS, FRANCIS [1]
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE
Date: 1771
Nature: FS exhibits 'elevation of a building proposed for an almshouse intended to be built at Mitchelstown...for reduced gentlemen and gentlewomen' at Society of Artists in Ireland, 1771 (no. 81).
Refs: ALEI, II, 639

Name: MORRISON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE
Date: 1771-1776
Nature: JM's plans chosen (but built - or completed? - to design of Oliver Grace).
Refs: MS correspondence re same, May 1775-Apr 1881, in NLI, Limerick Papers, PC 875, Bundles 8/35,37,75, 15/5,8,24, 19/7, 22/4,5,11 (information from Anthony Malcomson); Freeman's Journal, 23-26 Mar 1771; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 1-2; F. O'Dwyer, '"A Noble Pile in the late Tudor Style": Mitchelstown Castle', Irish Arts Review 18 (2002), 34(illus.),35;  National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20818022 (last visited, Feb 2017); exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 371.

Name: GRACE, OLIVER
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE
Date: 1775ca-1881
Nature: John Morrison's plans chosen but built - or completed? - to design of OG.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 23-26 Mar 1771; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 1-2; F. O'Dwyer, '"A Noble Pile in the late Tudor Style": Mitchelstown Castle', Irish Arts Review 18 (2002), 34(illus.),35

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE
Date: 1876-77
Nature: Chapel being repewed 'in the modern style'; 'huge box-stall pews, and towering two-decker...swept away'.  other improvents include new pulpit, reading desk, communion rail and stained glass E window. Reopened Apr 1877. (Shallow chancel presumably added at this time.)
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 210, 24 Oct 1876, 325; 19, no. 216, 1 Apr 1877, 118.