Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.