Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE
Name: | SEMPLE, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1805 |
Nature: | Awarded 3rd premium in competition. |
Refs: | Minutes of Ballast Board (1808) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Parliamentary Papers Municipal Corporations (Irl) Report on City of Dublin 1835, 1836, p.145-6 (E.McP) |
Name: | ASHPITEL, WILLIAM HURST # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1805 |
Nature: | Competition design for 'Ormond Bridge' exh. RA, 1806.. |
Refs: | RA 1806, no. 844 |
Name: | SAVAGE, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1805;1808?;1813 |
Nature: | JS winner of 100 guinea premium in competition for same (after old Ormond Bridge was swept away 3 Dec 1802). ?New or revised design, 1808. FS laid 9 Aug 1813. Completed 16 Mar 1816. . Cost: £25,800. Contractor: George Knowles. For Corporation of the Port of Dublin (alias Ballast Board). |
Refs: |
Competition design, 1805, in RIBA Drawings Collection (see Margaret Richardson, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects S (1976), 21); design exh. RA 1806, no. 933, and another in 1809, no. 845; Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh, History of Dublin II (1818), 1096; G. Petrie, Historical Guide to Dublin (1821)., ?; 'Annals of Dublin' in Wilson's Dublin Directory (1825); APSD S, 25; J.W. de Courcy, The Liffey in Dublin(1996), 351; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 695. |
Name: | BAKER, HENRY AARON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1805? |
Nature: | Competition entrant? |
Refs: | Design exhibited Hibernian Society of Artists 1814, no. 262 |
Name: | ROSS, WILLIAM [1]*# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1812ca |
Nature: | WR submits design for same. |
Refs: | Thomas Humphreys, The Irish Builder's Guide (Dublin, 1813), 325 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44). |
Name: | SMYTH, JOHN [4]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1813-16 |
Nature: | Keystones, representing Peace, Hibernia and Commerce on one side and Plenty, the Liffey & Industry on the other. |
Refs: |
J. Warburton, J. Whitelaw and R. Walsh, History of the City of Dublin (1818), II, 1093; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 392; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 695. |
Name: | KNOWLES, GEORGE # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1813-1816 |
Nature: | GK awarded contract in Oct 1812 and completed bridge in spring of 1816. Bridge designed by James Savage. |
Refs: |
The Liffey Bridges from Islandbridge to Eastlink: a historical and technical report compiled by the Liffey Bridges Survey Team (1987), 68; J.W. De Courcy, The Liffey in Dublin (1996), 217; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 695-6. |
Name: | HALPIN, GEORGE [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND BRIDGE |
Date: | 1813-1816 |
Nature: | John S. Sloane gives responsibility for the Whitworth and Richmond bridges to George Halpin[1]. According to Casey, GH made minor alterations to Savage's design. |
Refs: |
IB 22, 1 Apr 1880, 99; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 695. |