Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)

Name: CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1775;1787p
Nature: Design commissioned Dec 1775. Executed from 1787 onwards under supervision of Christopher and Graham Myers.
Refs: James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 242; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151; Country Life 159, 20 May 1976, 1310-1313; Lesley Whiteside, The Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin (Trinity College Chapel Committee, 1998), 6-7; John Redmill, 'The buildings of William Chambers in Dublin' in M. McCarthy, ed., Lord Charlemont and His Circle (2001), 162;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 390,396-7.

Name: MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1779ca
Nature: CM executant architect for Chamber's designs for chapel (completed after his death under supervision of Graham Myers).
Refs: Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated;  John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151;    Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),396-398.

Name: DARLEY, GEORGE [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1787
Nature: Cut-stone work by GD.
Refs: TCD Library MUN/P2 Calendar (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Lesley Whiteside, The Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin' (Trinity College Chapel Committee, 1998), 7-8

Name: MYERS, GRAHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1787-1796
Nature: GM executant architect for completion of Chamber's design for chapel (begun under Christopher Myers)
Refs: Bolger MSS, NLI MS 10,711(4) and TCD Misc. Box IV (2228) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); J. Ferrar, View of Dublin (1796), 15; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 397.

Name: HENRY, HUGH *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1787-91
Nature: HH employed as carpenter until his death, c.1791. Assisted by William Semple..
Refs: Bryan Bolger papers, NA/PRO 1A/58/128; Trinity college muniments, MUN/P/2/166; E.McParland, James Gandon (1985), 47

Name: CRANFIELD, RICHARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1787p
Nature: Wood carving of interior and stone carving of front by RC, with his son John Smith Cranfield.
Refs: Lesley Whiteside, The Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin' (Trinity College Chapel Committee, 1998), 8

Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1792
Nature: MS paid £1806-8s-3½d for plastering same.
Refs: TCD MS A.8 (3688) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1794
Nature: Bryan Bolger measures stonework by JS on new chapel and adjoining buildings, Aug, 1793, and bricklayer's work at new chapel, June 1794.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125,128

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1844-45ca
Nature: Monument (marble relief) to John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne (1763-1835).
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 90(illus.),134

Name: CLAYTON & BELL *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1865ca
Nature: Stained glass windows on right and left sides of E window in apse.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 398.

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1871
Nature: Repairs & improvements, including tiling of chancel, Irish marble chancel railing. Work carried out by Mssrs. Sibthorpe. Tiles supplied by Maw & Co. Chapel reopened Oct 1871.
Refs: IB 13, 1 Nov 1871, 283

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1872ca
Nature: Stained glass window of Transfiguration in centre of apse.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 398.

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: ?
Nature: Circular stairs on each side of chancel designed and erected by RM.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 299