Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, GREYABBEY HOUSE

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. DOWN, GREYABBEY HOUSE
Date: 1830s
Nature: Family tradition that WVM worked at Greyabbey while working at Mount Stewart.
Refs: Information from Anne Casement

Name: NIVEN, NINIAN
Building: CO. DOWN, GREYABBEY HOUSE
Date: 1843
Nature: Proposal for garden.
Refs: Drawing, s. &. d. 2 Dec 1843, in house (Archaeological Survey of County Down(1966), 405)

Name: SANDS, JAMES #
Building: CO. DOWN, GREYABBEY HOUSE
Date: 1846ca
Nature: Alterations, including porches at corners of entrance front . For Hugh Montgomery.
Refs: Plans & elevations, 1846,and estimate of £2,580, 18 Nov 1846, for 'sundry works', at Greyabbey House  (Archaeological Survey of County Down (1966), 405);  'Terrace Elevation', signed 'J. Sands, Dec 1846' in PRONI D671/P13/5 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44) (exh. Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), No. 20);  Jeremy Musson, 'Grey Abbey, Co. Down', Country Life, 30 Oct 1997, 50;  C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of North County Down (UAHS, 2002), 80-81(illus.).