Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, CASTLE WARD

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, CASTLE WARD
Date: 1762ca-1772ca
Nature: New house, for Bernard Ward (later 1st Viscount Bangor). Has one Classical front and one Gothic front. Built of Bath stone. Girouard suggests James Bridges or Thomas Paty, both of Bristol, as architect.
Refs: Lady Llanover, ed., Autobiography and Correspondence of …Mrs Delany (1862), I, 21; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 114-6; Mark Girouard, 'Castleward, Co. Down', Country Life 130, 23 & 30 Nov 1961, 1260-3,1320-3

Name: HAGERTY, -
Building: CO. DOWN, CASTLE WARD
Date: 1856
Nature: Proposed saloon and boudoir. For Edward Ward, 4th Viscount Bangor.
Refs: Drawings in National Trust collection, Castle Ward, Inv. nos. 834267, 834268, see http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/search/1 (last visited Jan 2013).

Name: STIRRAT, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DOWN, CASTLE WARD
Date: 1869
Nature: Additions at either end of house, one including new main entrance with porch.. For Edward, 4th Viscount Bangor.
Refs: Signed drawings (plans, elevation, sections, perspective view), dated 1869, in National Trust collection, Castle Ward. Inv. Nos. 834280-834286, see http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/search/1 (last visited Jan 2013).

Name: MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, CASTLE WARD
Date: ?
Nature: Possible connection with CM.
Refs: 'Ballinlough notebook of visit' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)