Selected: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1802-05 |
Nature: | Gothicization and enlargement, for Joshua Edward Cooper. Also Gothic gateway. |
Refs: |
Drawings, two dated 1802 and 1803, in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 943-950 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 283-4); 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 4; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 164a (note 26) |
Name: | GOODWIN, FRANCIS # |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1832 |
Nature: | Gothic gate lodge on Dublin road, for Edward Joshua Cooper, M.P. |
Refs: | 2 elevations of lodge from road and from park (former as engraved in Goodwin's Domestic Architecture Vol. I (1833), design no. 14) sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 12 Jun 1980 (Lot 128); drawings for Markree Castle (including ones by FG?) in possession of present owners |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1832 |
Nature: | Observatory, for Edward Joshua Cooper |
Refs: | Terence O'Rorke, History of Sligo (1889), 352. |
Name: | MACDOWELL, PATRICK * |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1834 |
Nature: | Marble group of Procris and Cephalus, for Captain Cooper. |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 62 |
Name: | ATKINSON, THOMAS WITLAM # |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1838ca |
Nature: | Proposed alterations? For Edward Joshua Cooper. |
Refs: | Undated sheet of rough sketches, possibly for proposed alterations, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, SB66/2, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects A (1968), 39, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/1Huer6Lx38/MAIN_CAT/158920097/13 (last visited May 2009). |
Name: | GWILT, JOSEPH # |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1841-3 |
Nature: | Adds. including interiors of drawing room, boudoir, ante-room and chapel executed in carton pierre by Wallet & Hubert, Paris. With his son John Sebastian Gwilt, for E.J. Cooper. ('Beautiful and costly' fittings of chapel presented to diocese by the Misses Cooper in 1882. To be installed in synod hall.) |
Refs: |
Drawings dated 1842 in RIBA drawings collection, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 78, no. 18; design 'as now completing' exh. by J.S. Gwilt at RA, 1843, no. 1214; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 145, 7 Oct 1882, 708. p.708! |
Name: | BENSON, JOHN (SIR) |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1843? |
Nature: | Superintends works. For Edward Joshua Cooper. |
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Name: | WARDROP, JAMES MAITLAND # |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1866 |
Nature: | 'Extensive' works for Edward Henry Cooper in progress. (According to O'Rorke, EHC 'encompassed it with battlemented walls' giving it the 'apperance of a fortress quite as much as a private mansion'.) |
Refs: |
DB 8, 15 Aug 1866, 209; |
Name: | MONRO, JAMES MILNE # |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE |
Date: | 1890-1900 |
Nature: | Alterations for Edward Henry Cooper. |
Refs: | www.scottisharchitects.org.uk, citing Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 201-2, and Monro & Partners collection in Glasgow City Archives, MON 1890/14 |