Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE
Name: | BURGH, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1728 |
Nature: | TB's prepares plan for same, rejected in favour of Edward Lovett Pearce's design. |
Refs: | Deputy Keeper's Report xxx, 53 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44), NA/PRO M3036, f.77; Rolf Loeber, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (1981), 35 |
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1728 |
Nature: | RC employed as draughtsman by Edward Lovett Pearce |
Refs: | The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38 |
Name: | PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1729 |
Nature: | New. FS laid 3 Feb 1729. Finished under supervision of Arthur Dobbs after Pearce's death. |
Refs: |
Draft memorial by ELP to Lords Justices of Ireland and designs 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), 1(nos. 1,2,4),2(no.11),5(nos.29,31?),24(no.165),27(no.184), Pls.45,46,47,48a,48b,49); Edward Watson. 'The Irish Parliament House. Who was the architect?', IB 71, 8 Jun 1929, 516-528; E. McParland, 'Edward Lovett Pearce and the Parliament House in Dublin', Burlington Magazine 131 (Feb, 1989), 91-100; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 380-86. |
Name: | OLDHAM, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1729p |
Nature: | Large timber chimneypiece in House of Lords chamber executed by O. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 385. |
Name: | ARMSTEAD, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1729p |
Nature: | Joiner work by JA. |
Refs: | JHCI 4, xxxi. (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | DOBBS, ARTHUR |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1735-1739 |
Nature: | AD supervises completion of Edward Lovett Pearce's design. Estimates, 1735; payments, 1739. |
Refs: |
JHCI 4, cxii-, cxiii, cxliii, clxv (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Desmond Clarke, Arthur Dobbs, Esquire (1958), 42-3; E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 188; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 380. |
Name: | MAGILL, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1750s |
Nature: | Accused at profiteering on works at same by anonymous author of Life and Adventures of Buttermilk Jack (Dublin, 1760). |
Refs: | Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (lst edition, 1952), 169-170. |
Name: | GANDON, JAMES |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1782-1789p |
Nature: | Designed Foster Place entrance front of House of Commons, screen walls and portico for House of Lords. |
Refs: | Design for W front portico, attrib. to JG, in NLI, AD 3520; see E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),383,385 |
Name: | PENROSE, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1786 |
Nature: | May have worked on alts. |
Refs: | APSD, P, 82 |
Name: | HAYES, SAMUEL (COL) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1786-1793 |
Nature: | SH involved in design of extension to House of Commons. |
Refs: | T.J. Mulvany, ed., The Life of James Gandon (1846),112-118; E.McParland, James Gandon(1985), 84-87. |
Name: | SMYTH, EDWARD * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1787 |
Nature: | Statues of Justice, Wisdom and Liberty over pediment of House of Lords. Erected early September 1787. |
Refs: | Dublin Evening Post, ? Apr 1787; Dublin Penny Journal, 15 Dec 1832, 193; Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 70-71 E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), 80; Patrick Lenehan, 'Edward Smyth, Dublin's Sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-1990,71-2 |
Name: | PARKE, EDWARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1787-1793 |
Nature: | Supervises completion of work on House of Commons after death of Robert Parke. |
Refs: | Accounts, 1793-4, in PRONI Foster/Massereene MSS. D562/7523 (see PRONI E-catalogue); Dublin Penny Journal 1 (1832), 192(illus.); E.McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), 204; JHCI 15, ccccix; 16, lxxxix (E. McP.) |
Name: | PARKE, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1787-1793 |
Nature: | RP architect in charge of erection of House of Commons; succeeded after his death by Edward Parke. |
Refs: | James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated; E.McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), 204; JHCI 15, ccccix; 16, lxxxix (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | WALDRÉ, VINCENT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1792-96 |
Nature: | Reroofing of Commons Chamber after its destruction by fire in Feb 1792. Undated design for lustre. |
Refs: |
Dublin Evening Post, 17 Nov 1796; T.S. Mulvany, ed., The Life of James Gandon (1846), E. McParland, 'The Bank and the Visual Arts', in F.S.L. Lyons, ed., Bicentenary Essays Bank of Ireland 1783-1983 (1983), 105,108(illus.); NA/SPO 509/26/15 (re lustre) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 385. |
Name: | SWORDS, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1795a |
Nature: | Brickwork at House of Commons (walls under gallery and work on circular wall). For Board of Works. |
Refs: | Notebooks of Bryan Bolger, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | WOODGATE, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | 1797 |
Nature: | Plan for heating same. |
Refs: | PRONI, D562/7530 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | HOUGHTON, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Royal arms in tympanum of Commons' entrance. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 382. |