Selected: CO. ANTRIM, GARRON TOWER
Name: | MILLAR, JOHN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, GARRON TOWER |
Date: | 1847 |
Nature: | Prepares designs for proposed bathing lodge for Marchioness of Londonderry. |
Refs: | Signed, undated 'Plan of a proposed bathing lodge for the Marchioness of Londonderry' in PRONI, D2977/6/4C (see PRONI e-catalogue). |
Name: | VULLIAMY, LEWIS # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, GARRON TOWER |
Date: | 1848?;1852 |
Nature: | Addition of hall, 1852, by LV for Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry; 'it seems plainly established - though technically unproven - that Vulliamy was responsible for the original design as well as for the additions' (Brett). FS for original tower 'laid by Lady Londonderry "with her own fair hand"', Mar 1848. |
Refs: | Signed designs for proposed additions (hall, chapel, tower, dairy), 1852, in Antrim Estate Office, Glenarm, Co. Antrim; 'Plans for proposeed new hall, 1852 (same as preceding?) in PRONI, Antrim Papers, D2977/37/8/1/3A (design for hall exh. Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (Ulster Museum/UAHS, 1972), no. 29); B 6, 25 Mar 1848, 152; C.E.B. Brett, Historic Buildings…in the Glens of Antrim (UAHS, 1971), 22-23,24(illus.). |
Name: | MILLAR, JOHN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, GARRON TOWER |
Date: | 1849 |
Nature: | JM reports (in capacity of supervising architect?) on progress of construction of Garron Tower for Marchioness of Londonderry and proposes additional engineering works to screen tower from public road. |
Refs: |
Report by John Millar, for Lady Londonderryon the progress of construction work at Garron Tower.1 Jan 1849, in PRONI, D2977/54/3/1-3 (see PRONI e-catalogue). |
Name: | BATT, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, GARRON TOWER |
Date: | 1877 |
Nature: | WB reports on state of roof. |
Refs: |
Report and estimate by WB on state of roofs at Garron Tower, 1877, in PRONI, D2977/54/32. |
Name: | GREGORY, PATRICK (PADRAIG) BERNARD |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, GARRON TOWER |
Date: | 1950p |
Nature: | Restoration of house which was gutted by fire between the wars. Foundations of chapel of the Immaculate Conception laid 1954. |
Refs: | IB 96, 31 Jul 1954, 749; C.E.B. Brett, Historic Buildings…in the Glens of Antrim (UAHS, 1971), 23; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 132 |