Selected: CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1731-1740 |
Nature: | New house incorporating existing castle for Richard Wingfield, M.P. (later Viscount Powerscourt).(Accidentally burnt out, 4 Nov 1974.) |
Refs: | The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; Maurice Craig, The Architecture of Ireland from the earliest times to 1880 (London & Dublin, 1982), 188; David J. Griffin, 'Richard Castle's Egyptian Hall at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow', The Georgian Group Journal 1995), 119-124 |
Name: | CHEARNLEY, SAMUEL |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1745ca? |
Nature: | Design for gates, attr. to SC. |
Refs: | IAA, Powerscourt Albums (89/62), 1/8/1; reproduced in Griffin & Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (Dublin, 1993), 31 (No. 4c). |
Name: | PROVIS, HENRY THOMAS # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1834 |
Nature: | New lake in Deer Park, which emptied itself soon after construction because of the bursting of a bank. |
Refs: | Map and estimates, dated 25 Jun 1834, in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc. 89/62, 1/54/1 & 1/57/1; E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 92-3. |
Name: | MALLET, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1836 |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposal for supporting saloon floor by J. & R. Mallet. |
Refs: | Drawing, signed John & Robert Mallet and dated 27 May 1836, and letter from Robert Mallet to Rev. W. Magee, 7 Jun 1836, about the proposal in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, 1/28/1 and 1/87(P)1 |
Name: | MALLET, ROBERT [2] |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1836 |
Nature: | Proposal for supporting saloon floor by J. & R. Mallet. (William Farrell also involved.) Not executed. |
Refs: | Drawing, signed John & Robert Mallet and dated 27 May 1836, and letter from Robert Mallet to Rev. W. Magee, 7 Jun 1836, about the proposal in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, 1/28/1 and 1/87(P)1 |
Name: | DARLEY, FREDERICK [2] |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1836ca |
Nature: | Proposals for improvements to screen walls and kitchen out-offices |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Powerscourt Albums (89/62), 1/17/1-1/19/1, a letter from John and Robert Mallet to Rev. W. Maghee, 7 Jun 1836, in a pocket at the back of this album., 1/87(P)/1, states that the Mallet's designs for raising the saloon floor had been 'submitted to Mr Darley'. |
Name: | ROBERTSON, DANIEL |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1840-44 |
Nature: | Modifications to house and schemes for terrace and gardens to S. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, 1/26/1-1/27/1. 1/30/1. 1/36/1-1/51/2, 1/60/2-1/73/1, 1/87(P)/2-3 |
Name: | LOUCH, FITZGIBBON |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1851 |
Nature: | Proposed gardens and orchard. |
Refs: |
Site map, signed and dated 1851, in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc. 89/62.1/60/1. |
Name: | HODSON, GEORGE FREDERICK JOHN (SIR) |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1854-57;1859;1866 |
Nature: | Design for Tinnehinch gate lodge, 1854. Gift from Frederick, 4th Marquess of Londonderry, husband of 7th Viscount Powerscourt's mother. Erected, 1856-57. Also design for gateway, 1859, and design for tunnel to allow drive from house to waterfall without gates, 1866. |
Refs: |
Set of 3 drawings for lodge, signed and dated Mar 1854, in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc. 89/62, 1/33/1, 1/34/1, 1/35/1; another alternative set, 1854, in IAA, Hollybrooke Drawings collection, Acc. 87/55.24/1-4. Design for gateway, Acc. 87/55. 24/5; design for tunnel, Acc. 87/55.25/1. |
Name: | KELLY, JOHN WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1860 |
Nature: | Proposal for repairing embankment and erecting overfall for artificial lake in Deer Park for 7th Viscount Powerscourt. |
Refs: | Design, specification and accompanying letter, all dated 29 Sep 1860, in IAA, Powerscourt Album 1, pages 58 and 87(P). |
Name: | BURN, WILLIAM # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1862-4 |
Nature: | Laundry, designed 1862-3 and built 1864; subsequent schemes, 1865-1884, by Burn's nephew J. MacVicar Anderson. |
Refs: | Note by Mervyn, 7th Viscount Powerscourt at beginning of Powerscourt Volume 2 in IAA. |
Name: | FERGUSON, DUNCAN CAMPBELL |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1864 |
Nature: | Proposed stables and coach house, for Mervyn, 7th Viscount Powerscourt. |
Refs: | Plan and elevation, signed and dated 10 Aug 1864, in IAA, Powerscourt Albums (89/62), 1/81/1, 1/83/1. |
Name: | ANDERSON, JOHN MACVICAR # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1865-1884 |
Nature: | Reconstruction of dining room, constr. of W. wing, alts. to E. wing, and several unexecuted proposals. |
Refs: | RA Exhibition 1871, No. 969; drawings for projected alterations, 1864-1886, in IAA, Powerscourt Albums (89/62), 2/1/1-2/44/1, 3/1/1-3/38/1; further drawings, dated April 1880, in RIBA, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects A (1968), 28, and and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/u0QUYOAuNs/MAIN_CAT/182420123/9 (last visited Apr 2009) (photographs of these drawings in IAA). See also notes by Lord Powerscourt, 1893-94, at the beginning of each of the Powerscourt Albums, the substance of which is included in his book, A Description and history of Powerscourt (London, 1903), 32-3,37,66-7. |
Name: | HOWE, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1866 |
Nature: | Proposal for terraces for 7th Viscount Powerscourt. |
Refs: | Drawing, signed and dated March 1866, in IAA, Powerscourt Album 1/51/1; Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of gardening in Ireland (1995), 128 |
Name: | LEROY & CIE # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1867-69 |
Nature: | Wrought iron gates for Tinnehinch entrance to demesne. Exhibited Paris Exhibition, 1867. Erected at Powerscourt, 1869. |
Refs: |
Half elevation, annotated by Lord Powerscourt, in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc. 89/62.1/85/1. |
Name: | THOMAS, WILLIAM BRODRICK # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1867a |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposal for gardens to S of house. |
Refs: | Unsigned, undated drawing inscribed (in hand of Lord Powerscourt) 'by Brodrick Thomas by 1867' in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc, 89/62.1/551 (repr. E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 84, but wrongly captioned as by Daniel Robertson); Malins & Bowe, op. cit., 86. |
Name: | PENROSE, FRANCIS CRANMER # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1874-75 |
Nature: | Lower or garden terrace on S front. For Mervyn Edward, 7th Viscount Powerscourt. Contractor: George Moyers, Dublin. Clerk of Works: Hawkins. Cost between £4,000 and £5,000. |
Refs: |
14 drawings signed and dated 1874 and 1875 in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc. 89/62, 3/40/1 - 3/53/1; IB 17, 15 Nov 1875, 322. |
Name: | DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1894-95 |
Nature: | Billiard or 'Long' Room, for 7th Viscount Powerscourt.. Decoration designed by TND. Builder: Bolton. Amount of tender, £3,250. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS 0747, A07, p.201 (Dec 1894); Viscount Powerscourt, A Description and History of Powerscourt (1903), 50-51 |
Name: | OWEN, CHARLES ASTLEY |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | 1909 |
Nature: | Unexecuted design for porch on N front, for Mervyn, 8th Viscount Powerscourt. |
Refs: | Drawing, signed and dated 1909, in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc. 89/62.1/86/1 (loose) |
Name: | KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON * |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposed saloon chimneypiece. For 7th Viscount Powerscourt. Not executed. |
Refs: | Elevation, signed 'J.R. Kirk dist et fect.' in IAA, Powerscourt Albums, Acc. 89/62.1/29/1. |
Name: | SALVIATI, ANTONIO # |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, POWERSCOURT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Mosaic lunette in saloon above door into drawing room.(Destroyed in fire.) |
Refs: |
The Salviati Architectural Mosaic Database, ttp://salviatimosaics.blogspot.ie/2013/04/powerscourt-house.html (last visited, May 2017). |