Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY

Name: WILLS, MICHAEL
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1753-54
Nature: Works for Ralph Howard at same.
Refs: IAA, MS. cash book of Michael Wills, Acc. 81/88, 34-37,39-43 Christine Casey, '"De architectura": an Irish eighteenth-century gloss', Architectural History 37 (1994), 90-91

Name: DARLEY, MOSES *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1754a
Nature: HD works for Ralph Howard (at Shelton Abbey?)
Refs: Accounts of MD with Ralph Howard in NLI, MS. 1725(a) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: BRETTINGHAM, MATTHEW #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1755a
Nature: MB designs plan and elevation of unspecified house (but presumably Shelton Abbey) for Ralph Howard.
Refs: Letter from MB to Ralph Howard, 10 Jan 1755, published in

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1819ca
Nature: Remodelling of house, to 'represent an ecclesiastical edifice of the fouteenth centyry converted into a baronial residence at some subsequent period'  by WVM and Richard Morrison (Wright), for William Forward Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow.
Refs: Unsigned perspective view in WVM's hand in catalogue of exhibition at Cynthia O'Connor Gallery, May 1991 (no. 4);  G.N. Wright, A Guide to the County of Wicklow (1822), 81;  J.P. Neale,Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland II (London, 1823), no. 72;  John Morrison, 'Life of the late William Vitruvius Morrison' in John Weale, ed., Quarterly Papers on Architecture I (1843-44), 8;  A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 161-164(illus.)

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1819ca;1840
Nature: Remodelling, with William Morrison, for William Forward Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow. 'Nunnery' wing of 1840c, attributable to RM on stylistic grounds.
Refs: G.N. Wright, A Guide to the County of Wicklow (1822),11, 81; J.P. Neale,Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland II (London, 1823), no. 72;
 John Morrison, 'Life of the late William Vitruvius Morrison' in John Weale, ed., Quarterly Papers on Architecture I (1843-44), 8; 
A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 161-164(illus.)

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1869ca
Nature: Proposed billiard room in Perpendicular Gothic style for Earl of Wicklow (probably Charles Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow, who succeeded his uncle in 1869).
Refs: Undated plan, section, elevations, specifications, signed John McCurdy, architect, 10 Leinster Street (i.e.between 1866 and 1870) in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, 79/17, T177.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1878
Nature: Work at same, for 5th Earl of Wicklow. Builder: Millard. Plasterwork: James Hogan & Sons.
Refs: IAA, PKS B08/15, B09/12, A07, p.138 (1879);  46th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1877), 15;  IB 20, 15 Aug 1878, 235.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: 1903
Nature: Renovation in progress. For Ralph Howard, 7th earl of Wicklow.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 1 Aug 1903.

Name: BIRCH, JOHN #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: ?
Nature: Labourers' cottages for Earl of Wicklow.
Refs: John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881) 21,Pl.3