Selected: CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE
Name: | HOPPER, THOMAS # |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE |
Date: | 1810? |
Nature: | Principal staircase attributed to Hopper by Lacy. |
Refs: | Thomas Lacy, Home Sketches (1852), cited by P. Bowe, '"The Science of Elegant Luxury": Johnstown Castle', Irish Arts Review17 (2001), 157 (Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 95, who attributes staircase to Daniel Robertson, says that Norman remodelling of Johnstown 'reputedly started as early as 1810') |
Name: | ROBERTSON, DANIEL |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE |
Date: | 1836 |
Nature: | Gothicization and enlargement for H.K. Grogan Morgan, assisted by Martin Day. |
Refs: | Signed drawings, dated 1836, in collection of OPW in 1961 (see Connoisseur May, 1961, 283); Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 94), 91,94 |
Name: | DAY, MARTIN |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE |
Date: | 1846 |
Nature: | Designs for west (labelled) north front and battlemented gateway in demesne.(?By MD as executant architect for Daniel Robertson) For H.K. Grogan-Morgan. |
Refs: | Signed dated elevations in collection of Mary Sherwood, Enniscorthy (descendant of Martin Day)(photographs in IAA, neg.C7/120,122; elevation of W front repr. Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 94)) |
Name: | PAIN, JAMES |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposed new front (3-storey, symmetrical, Gothic, with stepped battlements) |
Refs: | 'Copy of a Design for new front to Johnstown Castle by Pain' by Sandham Symes in collection of William Harvey (a descendant of Sandham Symes), 86 Beechwood Drive, Broomhill, Glasgow; |
Name: | CONNOR, PATRICK * |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Decorative plasterwork. |
Refs: | Thomas Lacey, Sights and Scenes in our Fatherland (London, 1863), 422-3 (information from Rolf Loeber, Feb 2012). |