Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.