Selected: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Name: | BLORE, EDWARD # |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1832-1837 |
Nature: | New castellated mansion for 2nd Earl Erne. Shell built, 1832-1834, by James Henry for c. £13,000. Contractor for inside work: Charles McGibbon, Edinburgh. (Boathouse given to Blore, 1841, in National Trust leaflet, but see also George Sudden.) |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, Nos. 270-288, and Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, SD90/4(1-3), SC54/11(4-8), see Margaret Richardson, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects B (RIBA, 1972), 91, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/BvgrEEYUeK/MAIN_CAT/14620059/13 (last visited Apr 2009); copy statement of case with counsel's opinion in dispute with Mr Henry concerning building of Crum Castle. John Creighton Esq., 18 Sep 1834, in PRONI, D1939/16/1A/10 (see PRONI e-catalogue); Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 4: Parishes of Co. Fermanagh 1834-5 (1990), 91; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 131; Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 10 (no.12, drawing reproduced in plate section); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 222-3 |
Name: | GILPIN, WILLIAM SAWREY # |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1838ca |
Nature: | Landscaping of demesne, for Abraham Creighton, 2nd Earl Erne. |
Refs: |
Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 224; Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 280. |
Name: | SUDDEN, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1841;1850ca |
Nature: | Sudden commissioned by Col. John Creighton, afterwards 3rd Earl of Erne, to rebuild house after fire of 1841 using Blore's specifications. Builder: Charles McGibbon, Edinburgh. Rowan atributes boat house in demesne, to GS but given to Blore and dated 1841 in National Trust leaflet on estate. |
Refs: | Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 223; Gervase Jackson-Stops, 'Crom Castle, Co. Fermanagh - II', Country Life183, 26 May 1988, 146. |
Name: | MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1861 |
Nature: | Addition of extra storey and alterations to E wing, for 3rd Earl Erne. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, no.s292-295 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 118,119-20). |
Name: | CRAIG, R. |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1861ca |
Nature: | Proposed addition of bedroom storey at NE corner of castle. For John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne. |
Refs: | Part plan and attached note in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 290,291( see Murray Collection Catalogue, pp.115-120) |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1873;1890 |
Nature: | Addition of extra storey to N wing, 1873. New maids' bedrooms in attic of main block (date?). New billiard room, 1890. For John Henry Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne. |
Refs: | PRONI E-catlogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx, last visited, Nov 2011; Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 732. |
Name: | STIRLING, ROBERT JOHN |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1886 |
Nature: | Made copy of sections of rooms on S front by Blore. Does this mean that he was employed there? |
Refs: |
Copies of sections of rooms on S and W fronts drawn by Blore in PRONI, D1939/2/23/12D,13C,98,99B (see PRONI e-catalogue). |
Name: | BRADBURY, EDWIN |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | 1913 |
Nature: | Refitting and remodelling farm building. For 4th Earl Erne. |
Refs: | IB 55, 1 Mar 1913, 147 |
Name: | BURN, WILLIAM # |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Unexecuted design for mansion, for 2nd Earl Erne |
Refs: | Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects B (1972), 164 |
Name: | PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposed two storey hexagonal building 'For Mr Creighton to be built on a Sunk Island in Lough Hern'. |
Refs: | Unsigned undated drawing in V & A, Elton Hall Collection (see Howard Colvin and Maurice Craig, Architectural Drawings in the library of Elton Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh and Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1964), 16 (no.110), Pl.72b); Maurice Craig, 'Sir Edward Lovett Pearce', BIGS (Jan-Jun 1974), 13; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 223 |
Name: | PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM HENRY # |
Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'Asked for plans for Crom'. For 2nd Earl Erne. |
Refs: |
NLI, MS 1658 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44). |