Selected: CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE)
Name: | GIBBS, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE) |
Date: | 1747-49 |
Nature: | Gibbs's direct involvement in the design of the house proposed by Terry Friedman.(His thesis accepted by Colvin.) |
Refs: |
Terry Friedman, 'Newbridge, Co. Dublin', Country Life 195, 4 Oct 2001, 108-113; Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman, James Gibbs in Ireland: Newbridge, his villa for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin (Cobbe Foundation & Irish Georgian Society, 2005); Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 423. |
Name: | SEMPLE, GEORGE [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE) |
Date: | 1751 |
Nature: | GS 'engaged in the conduct of the building a new house for...the Archbishop of Dublin [Charles Cobbe]' in 1751 (i.e. to designs by James Gibbs?). May have also designed stables, additions to house and bridge onprincipal driveway. |
Refs: | George Semple, A Treatise of Building in Water(1776), 5; Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman, James Gibbs in Ireland: Newbridge, his villa for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin (Cobbe Foundation & Irish Georgian Society, 2005), 31-35(illus.). |
Name: | STEWART, GEORGE * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE) |
Date: | 1752ca |
Nature: | Possibly employed as master builder for erection of Newbridge House. |
Refs: |
Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman, James Gibbs in Ireland: Newbridge, his villa for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin (Cobbe Foundation & Irish Georgian Society, 2005), 32. |
Name: | PARSONS, ROBERT *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE) |
Date: | 1757-1761 |
Nature: | Urns and eagles for parapet of house, for Thomas Cobbe. |
Refs: | Terry Friedman, 'I consulted several ingenious architects: a Newbridge miscellany', Country Life196, 24 Jan 2002, 61,62(illus.); Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman, James Gibbs in Ireland: Newbridge, his villa for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin (Cobbe Foundation & Irish Georgian Society, 2005),24-28(illus.),32. |
Name: | WILLIAMS, RICHARD * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE) |
Date: | 1764ca |
Nature: | Ornamental plasterwork in principal rooms. For Thomas Cobbe. |
Refs: | Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman, James Gibbs in Ireland: Newbridge, his villa for Charles Cobbe, Arcbishop of Dublin (Cobbe Foundation & Irish Georgian Society, 2005),58-63(illus.). |
Name: | MACK, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE) |
Date: | 1777 |
Nature: | Park bridge, for Thomas Cobbe; also dairy which Knight of Glin says was designed by RM 'in thae 1770s'.. |
Refs: | John Cornforth, 'Newbridge, Co. Dublin - I', Country Life 20 Jun 1985, 1735; Desmond FitsGerald, Knight of Glin, 'Newbridge House', World of Interiors, September 1983,116,117(illus.); Terry Friedman, 'I consulted several ingenious architects: a Newbridge miscellany', Country Life196, 24 Jan 2002, 62,63(illus.). |
Name: | BRUCE, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, NEWBRIDGE HOUSE (DONABATE) |
Date: | 1791 |
Nature: | Semi-Gothick, semi-Classical gate lodge. |
Refs: | Signed and dated elevation in collection of Alec Cobbe, repr. D. Guinness & W. Ryan, Irish Houses and Castles (1971), 157, repr. D. Guinness & W. Ryan, Irish Houses and Castles (1971), 157, and Terry Friedman, 'I consulted several ingenious architects: a Newbridge miscellany', Country Life196, 24 Jan 2002, 63. |