Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL)
Name: | HEWETSON, CHRISTOPHER * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL) |
Date: | 1771-1783 |
Nature: | Monument to Provost Richard Baldwin. Carved in Rome by CH and installed in Theatre (also known as Examination Hall) by Edward Smyth. |
Refs: |
A Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by John Ingamells (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997), 494; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 51-52(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 397. |
Name: | CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL) |
Date: | 1775;1777-1786 |
Nature: | Design commissioned Dec 1775. Executed 1777-86 under direction of Graham Myers |
Refs: |
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. 150; Country Life 159, 20 May 1976, 1310-1313; measured drawings by C.A. Harrington, Sep 1909, in TCD library; 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: | DARLEY, GEORGE [1]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL) |
Date: | 1778-9 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures stone-cutter's work ny GD on new theatre. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 and NLI MS 10,711; TCD Library MUN/P2 Calendar (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | ARMSTRONG, JOSEPH * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL) |
Date: | 1779 |
Nature: | Hewn stone work for theatre by JA. |
Refs: | NA/PRO Bolger MSS. 1A/58/128 |
Name: | HENRY, HUGH * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL) |
Date: | 1779-86 |
Nature: | HH employed as carpenter. |
Refs: | E.McParland, James Gandon (1985), 47 |
Name: | MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL) |
Date: | 1779ca |
Nature: | CM executant architect for Chamber's designs for theatre and chapel (completed after his death under supervision of Graham Myers) |
Refs: | Trinity College muniments, MUN/P/2/145/16,17Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),396-398. |
Name: | STAPLETON, MICHAEL * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL) |
Date: | 1784 |
Nature: | Stuccowork by MS. |
Refs: | C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 79; TCD vouchers 1760-99 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 397. |