Selected: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Name: | CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1765 |
Nature: | WC paid 40 gns. by Viscount Headfort for (unexecuted) designs for house with 13-bay garden front, and entrance fron tiwh 7 bay central block, colonnaded quadrants leading to stable and kitchen wings. |
Refs: | Drawings in the collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon; John Harris, Sir William Chambers(London, 1970), 210; John Harris, Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA exhibition catalogue, London, 1973), Pls. 5-7; John Cornforth, 'The Genesis of Headfort', Country Life 153, 5 Apr 1973, 947; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 14 |
Name: | COOLEY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1769-1771 |
Nature: | TC may have acted as overseer of building designed by George Semple |
Refs: | Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 315 |
Name: | SEMPLE, GEORGE [1] |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1769a |
Nature: | New house for Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective; 'straightforward to the point of monotony' (Casey & Rowan) |
Refs: | 7 designs, one initialled 'G.S.' and dated 27 Aug 1760, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc.96/068.3/2/1-7; John Cornforth, 'The Genesis of Headfort', Country Life 153, 15 Apr 1973, 947-8; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 314-5 |
Name: | ADAM, ROBERT # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1772-5 |
Nature: | Dining room, hall, stairs; partially executed. For Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective. |
Refs: | Drawings in Soane Museum, Adam vols. 12 (nos. 96-103). 50 (nos. 57-63), 53 (no. 29), 22 (no. 292) (photocopies in IAA, RP.B.50.5); drawings in Mellon Collection, listed in Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA exhibition catalogue, London, 1973); working drawings in collection of Marquess of Headfort (2009); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 313-316, Pl. 78; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 52. |
Name: | BRIGGS, JOSEPH * |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1773p |
Nature: | Employed as stonecutter at same. |
Refs: | Account of work at Headfort from 1773 onwards in NLI MS 26,649 (E.McP files). |
Name: | MCCULLAGH, JAMES * |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1774a |
Nature: | 'John McCulla' was paid for decorative plasterwork at Headfort House in January 1774. |
Refs: | John Harris, Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA, 1973), unpaginated). |
Name: | COOLEY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1779 |
Nature: | Executed design for bridge in park |
Refs: | Drawing s. & d. May 1779 in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/068.3/3/5; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 315,317 |
Name: | EATON, BENJAMIN [1]* |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1789 |
Nature: | Design for a Chinese temple. For 1st Marquess of Headfort. |
Refs: | Plan and elevation in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/68.3/3/11 |
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1802 |
Nature: | Design for battlemented bridge over River Blackwater, for 1st Marquess of Headfort. |
Refs: |
Plan and elevation, signed and dated 1802, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 06/068.3/3/6. |
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1802ca |
Nature: | Plans for proposed Gothicisation, for Marquess of Headfort. 'which he approved of, paid me for, but never put into execution'. |
Refs: | Drawings (including survey drawings dated 1802) in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 879-885 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 264-5); composite elevation formerly in Murray Collection but now (2010) framed in RIAI (illus. in Irish Architectural Drawings (1965), no. 72); 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3 |
Name: | MCLEISH, ALEXANDER |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1824 |
Nature: | AMcL working on garden/grounds. |
Refs: | E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens & Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 20. |
Name: | FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1870 |
Nature: | Mausoleum for 2nd Marquess of Headfort. Consecrated 5 May 1870. Builder: Henry Sharpe, Kells. |
Refs: | IB 12, 1 Jun 1870, 123; B 28, ? ? 1870, 455; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 317 (illus. pl. 127) |
Name: | FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | 1874-75 |
Nature: | Farm buildings. Cost: £3,635. Builder: Sharpe. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B06/52, B07/20, A06 (Nov 1874) |
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposals for new house, for Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Bt. Not executed. |
Refs: | Plans and elevation in hand of RC in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/68.3/1/2-9; D.J. Griffin, 'A Richard Castle design for Headfort, Co. Meath' in Conleth Manning, ed., Dublin and beyond the Pale: Studies in honour of Patrick Healy (1998), 269-272(illus.) |
Name: | COOLEY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Gates in demesne wall attr. to TC |
Refs: | Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993),, 315 |
Name: | ENSOR, JOHN |
Building: | CO. MEATH, HEADFORT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposal. |
Refs: | Plan and elevation in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc.96/068, 3/1/10; John Harris, Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA exhibition catalogue, 1973), preface, p.1,3(illus.) |