Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE

Name: TAYLOR, -
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1755ca
Nature: Work on hall.
Refs: A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 712.


Name: NEWTON, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1769a
Nature: Makes survey plan of part of 'Parlor Floor' perhaps on behalf of James Stuart for Hon. Henry Loftus before latter succeeded to viscountcy on 12 Nov 1869.
Refs: Part plan of parlour floor, annotated with suggestions for decorative schemes (in hand of Henry Loftus?) in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, SC72/8, see Margaret Richardson, ed.,Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: C (RIBA, 1972), 19, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/MHgInBIexv/MAIN_CAT/51420022/13 (last visited Apr 2009) which wrongly attribute the drawing to William Chambers;  information from Simon Loftus, Nov 2100.

Name: STUART, JAMES #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1769p
Nature: Internal decoration, including that of ground floor gallery, attr, to JS by McParland on stylistic grounds and on basis of  remark by Lady Shelburne  in 1769 that some interiors at Rathfarnham were being decorated 'after Designs of Mr Stuart's' . For Hon. Henry Loftus.
Refs: E.McParland, 'Rathfarnham Castle, Co. Dublin', Country Life 172, 9 Sep 1982, 737;  Kerry Bristol, 'Rathfarnham Castle in the architectural oeuvre of James 'Athenian' Stuart:  a question of patronage', in Michael McCarthy, ed., Lord Charlemont and his Circle:  essays in honour of Michael Wynne (2001), 113-122, mistakenly suggests that Stuart was employed initially by the previous owner of the house (information from Simon Loftus, Nov 2011);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),496.

Name: CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1770-1
Nature: Interiors, for Henry, 4th Viscount Loftus (cr. Earl of Ely, Nov. 1771).
Refs: Undated part plan of ground floor in RIBA Drawings Collection, J4/37 (see Margaret Richardson, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: C (RIBA, 1972), 19;   correspondence between Loftus and Chambers in letter books of Sir William Chambers, British Library, Add. MSS 41133 & 41134 (information from Simon Loftus, Nov 2011);  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008) 243-4; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 241-2, which wrongly suggests that Chambers was employed from 1769

Name: REVELEY, WILLEY #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1790s
Nature: Design for castellated Gothic gateway attr. to WR.. For Charles Tottenham, Earl of Ely.
Refs: Unsigned, undated elevation, said to be by WR, formerly in collection of Jesuits at Rathfarnham Castle and later sold at auction. Photograph in IAA. Source of attribution not known (N. Sheaff?).

Name: POWELL, CHARLES B.
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1913
Nature: Alts. & extension, for Jesuits.
Refs: IB 55, 7 Jun 1913, 365

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1927-28
Nature: 6 stained-glass windows, now in Tullamore RC church
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 71

Name: POWELL, CHARLES B.
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE
Date: 1953;1956
Nature: Extension to S lodge, 1953, and N lodge, 1956. For Jesuits.
Refs: IB 95, 12 Sep 1953, 953; 98, 11 Aug 1956, 729