Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.