Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, BELAN HOUSE

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. KILDARE, BELAN HOUSE
Date: 1743
Nature: Remodelling of existing house, temple, obelisks with F. Bindon for John Stratford, later 1st Earl of Aldborough. Attr. to RC by Knight of Glin.
Refs: Lord Walter Fitzgerald, 'Belan', Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 7 (1912-14), 333-4;  The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38.

Name: BINDON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. KILDARE, BELAN HOUSE
Date: 1743ca
Nature: Designed by Richard Castle & FB for John Stratford, MP (later 1st Earl of Aldborough).
Refs: J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (1825 & 1826), II, ?; Parliamentary Gazetteer (1844), I, 231; JRSAI 41 (1911), 243; BIGS, 10, Nos. 2 & 3, Apr-Sep 1967, 11; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 35(illus.)

Name: CAPON, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. KILDARE, BELAN HOUSE
Date: 1794
Nature: Theatre, for 2nd Earl of Aldborough.
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 218.