Selected: CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT
Name: | MARTIN, JAMES [1] |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1741-1745 |
Nature: | Architect/builder of house, now known as agent's house, for 7th Earl of Abercorn (finished by 8th Earl). |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 4,6,9,10; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 45,47,133,Pl.57; Gervase Jackson Stops, 'Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone - I', Country Life, 12 Jul 1979, 86(illus.),87 |
Name: | SHEEHAN, DAVID * |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1745 |
Nature: | Made 3 or 4 chimneypieces, for 8th Earl of Abercorn. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 8-9. |
Name: | BROOMFIELD, JAMES * |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1746p |
Nature: | JB employed to 'raise trees, plant clumps...and superintend the clearing of the park and the building of the park wall'. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn letters (1972), 262; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 135 |
Name: | MILLER, JAMES [1]* |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1749 |
Nature: | JM builds stables. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 26-7 |
Name: | DICK, JAMES * |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1778 |
Nature: | JD employed as stonecutter. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, ed., The Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 120 |
Name: | STEWART, ALEXANDER * |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1778-1781 |
Nature: | AS employed as mason during period house was being rebuilt to designs by George Steuart. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 119-120,123,155. |
Name: | HAWKSHAW, - |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1779 |
Nature: | Hawkshaw described as 'foreman ' to George Steuart in building new house at Baronscourt. |
Refs: | B of I files, citing John H. Gebbie, ed., The Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 124. |
Name: | STEUART, GEORGE # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1779-1781 |
Nature: | New 5-bay, 3-storey house for James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn, with 3-bay loggia of coupled Tuscan columns and shallow pediment. Cost: £8,015.8s.7½d. 'This new house is all of hewn white stone not very large but very convenient and well finished' (Beaufort). |
Refs: | Survey elevation and plan of house before alts. by Soane in Soane Museum; account book of GS, 1779-1784, in PRONI, Abercorn Papers, D623/C/3/1 (see PRONI E-catalogue); letters from GS to 8th Earl of Abercorn, 1780, in PRONI T2541/1A1/13/47; MS. journal of the Rev. D.A. Beaufort, 1787-1788; John H. Gebbie, ed., The Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 135; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 130-131; Gervase Jackson Stops, 'Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone - I', Country Life, 12 Jul 1979, 87-88(illus.) |
Name: | SOANE, JOHN (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1789;1791-92 |
Nature: | Remodelling and enlarging of existing house, for 1st Marquess of Abercorn. Work supervised by Robert Woodgate. Main block gutted by fire, 1796. |
Refs: | Plan and elevation for a greenhouse for the Hon John James Hamilton, 1789 in Soane Museum, Drawer 8, Set 3, no. 23; 2 elevations in PRONI, T1726; PRONI, T2541/IAI/18-21 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); letters from Steuart to 1st Marquess of Abercorn, from 1779, in PRONI, Abercorn Papers, D 623 (see PRONI E-catalogue); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 130-132; Dorothy Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect (1984), 150-151,251, Pls. 101-2. |
Name: | WOODGATE, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1791-96;1798 |
Nature: | RW clerk of works for John Soane for erection of house, 1791-96; in charge of reconstruction, 1797-98, after fire of Dec 1796. |
Refs: | Ground floor plan, s. & d. Dec 1795, in Soane Museum, Drawer 29, Set 2; letters and accounts of RW to Marquess of Abercorn re building of house, 1791-1800, in PRONI, Abercorn MSS, D.623/A/106-7, also T2541/1A1/18-21; John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn letters (1972), 169,175,177,181,344,345,348,350; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 131-2; Dorothy Stroud, Sir John Soane, Architect (1984), 64,150-151; Gillian Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic (1999), 103 |
Name: | LEE, JAMES |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1794 |
Nature: | Lee, head plasterer at Baronscourt, leaves for Brown Hall, Co. Donegal. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, ed., The Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 183 |
Name: | TURNER, - [2]* |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1810 |
Nature: | Restoration and re-roofing for 1st Marquess of Abercorn. |
Refs: | John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn letters (1972), 388-9,393; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 132. |
Name: | FARRELL, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1831ca |
Nature: | WF makes proposals for rebuilding, not carried out. For 2nd Marquess of Abercorn. |
Refs: | Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 131 |
Name: | ROBINSON, PETER FREDERICK # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1832ca;1835ca |
Nature: | 'Rock Cottage' and Newtownstewart Gate taken from Designs Nos. 1 & 4 in Robinson's |Designs for Lodges & Park Entrances| (1833). For 2nd Marquess of Abercorn. |
Refs: | J.A.K. Dean, The Gate lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 135(illus.) |
Name: | MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1835-1843 |
Nature: | Reconstruction, with Richard Morrison, for James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn. |
Refs: | G. Jackson-Stops, 'Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone', Country Life 166 (12,19,26 Jul 1979), 86-9,162-5,232-5; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 23-28(illus.) |
Name: | MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR) |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1835-1843 |
Nature: | Reconstruction, with William Morrison, for James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn. |
Refs: | G. Jackson-Stops, 'Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone', Country Life 166 (12,19,26 Jul 1979), 86-9,162-5,232-5; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 23-28(illus.) |
Name: | BELL, JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1889 |
Nature: | New stables. 16th century style, 'partaking in general features in what is known as the Baronial', for James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn. FS laid 18 Sep 1889. Contr: J. Ballantine, Derry |
Refs: | IB 31, 15 Oct 1889, 234 |
Name: | RICHARDSON, ALBERT EDWARD (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | 1947 |
Nature: | House reduced in size and remodelled. (Further alts. & adds, 1969-72, by Erith & Terry, see British Architectural Library Catalogue.) |
Refs: | Watercolour view exh. RA 1948, no. 1157; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 131 |
Name: | THOMAS, WILLIAM BRODRICK # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Parterre on garden front. |
Refs: | E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 46(illus.),47. |
Name: | NIVEN, NINIAN |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Lower parterre to connect upper parterre to lakeside terrace, for Duke of Abercorn.. |
Refs: | E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 46(illus.),47 |
Name: | MALLET, ROBERT [2] |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Tower gate entrance designed and erected by RM for lst? Duke of Abercorn. |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 299 |
Name: | CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Large dining room chimneypiece (removed from Duddingston House, Edinburgh) |
Refs: | Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 133 |