Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM)
Name: | ENSOR, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1764-67 |
Nature: | Erection of Round Room, a plain circular stuccoed building (frieze, blocking course and cornice added in 1787). |
Refs: | Rotunda Hospital MSS; Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (lst edition, 1952), 193-194; Ian Campbell Ross, ed., Public Virtue, Public Love; th early years of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital (1986), 43-44,73,75-77(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),164-5. |
Name: | MCCULLAGH, JAMES * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1774 |
Nature: | JM 'did some plasterwork in the Rotunda[Round Room] for John Ensor'. |
Refs: | C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 75 |
Name: | GANDON, JAMES |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1784-1791 |
Nature: | Alts. & adds. (entrance block & exterior decoration) attr. to JG by McParland on stylistic grounds |
Refs: | See E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),165. |
Name: | SMYTH, EDWARD * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1786 |
Nature: | Ox-head frieze attr. to ES by Curran on grounds of its similarity to carving under N portico of Custom House. (In Coade stone. Could ES have supplied model for this??) |
Refs: | 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), 71 |
Name: | BEAZLEY, SAMUEL # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1820 |
Nature: | Conversion of Round Room into temporary theatre for Henry Harris prior to opening of Theatre Royal, Hawkins St. Opened 19 Jun 1820. |
Refs: | Plan in Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, pf MS. Thr 344 no. 14 (repr. in Görel Garlick, To Serve the purpose of the drama: the theatre designs and plays of Samuel Beazley 1786-1851 (Society for Theatre Research, 2003), 45; Garlick, op. cit., 44-45. |
Name: | MURRAY, WILLIAM [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1831 |
Nature: | Proposed new seating for orchestra &c, in Round Room, 1831. |
Refs: |
Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 711,712 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 225-6). |
Name: | SYMES, SANDHAM |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1860 |
Nature: | Erection of gallery, for Governors of Rotunda Buildings. Contractor: George Farrell. |
Refs: | DB 2, 1 Apr 1860., 236 |
Name: | MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1908 |
Nature: | Alts. to Round Room including new stage and proscenium, increased seating and dressing rooms, for Governors of Rotunda Hospital. Contractors: H. & J. Martin & Co. Work commenced, 4 Jun 1908. Building reopened 31 July 1908. 1908. |
Refs: |
IB 50, 4 Apr,8 Aug,5 Sep 1908, 213,477,551; Freeman's Journal, 6 Jul,1 Aug 1908; Irish Times, 1,11 Aug 1908. |
Name: | O'CONNOR, GEORGE LUKE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1916 |
Nature: | Plans being prepared for alts. & imps. to Round Room, including replacement of floor with sloping one, new gallery, glazed portico. |
Refs: |
IB 58, 22 Apr 1916, 187. |
Name: | HICKS, FREDERICK GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM) |
Date: | 1931 |
Nature: | Replacement of roof. Contractors: J. & P. Good, Ltd., Pearse St. Steelwork by J. & C. McGloughlin, Pearse St. |
Refs: | Irish Times, 20 Aug 1921 (illus.). |