Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA ASSEMBLY ROOMS

Name: TRENCH, MICHAEL FREDERICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Date: 1784
Nature: MFT makes designs for assembly rooms and superintends construction.
Refs: E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), 195n61,204;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),


Name: BARNS, WILLIAM *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Date: 1784-1786
Nature: Carpenter employed on same.
Refs: NA/PRO Dub 22, p.7 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: JOHNSTON, RICHARD [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Date: 1784-1786
Nature: Supervising architect for erection of assembly rooms. Appointed to prepare estimate and designs on which to base application to Parliament for funds. Designs based on ideas of Frederick Trench (?modified by Gandon).
Refs: Signed drawings for entrance porch, &c. in British Library C143d4 (photocopies in IAA); James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated;   APSD, Part 17 (1866), J, 18; Noreen Casey, 'Architecture and Decoration' in Ian Campbell Ross, ed., Public Virtue, Public Love (1986), 78-82(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 165-6.


Name: BAKER, MOSES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Date: 1787ca
Nature: Overseer of works.
Refs: JHCI 12, 404 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Date: 1831
Nature: Undated proposals for concert hall in assembly rooms.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 711,712 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 225-6)

Name: O'CONNOR, GEORGE LUKE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Date: 1916
Nature: Winter garden off Pillar Room proposed.
Refs: IB 58, 22 Apr 1916, 187