Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, TYNAN ABBEY

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TYNAN ABBEY
Date: 1820ca
Nature: Attributed to JN on basis of photographs of destroyed drawings in Nash's hand (or signed by Augustus Charles Pugin, while a draughtsman in Nash's office?) in Architectural Survey of N. Ireland (copies in IAA, 018/145).. Tudor Gothic. Gothic. For Sir James Stronge, 2nd Bt.(.Later much altered by W.J. Barre and W.H. Lynn. Gutted by fire 1980.)
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (3rd edn., 1995), 694; Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 208(illus.); C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Co. Armagh (UAHS, 1999), 89;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 568-9.

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TYNAN ABBEY
Date: 1866ca
Nature: Improvements, for Sir J.M. Stronge.
Refs: Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 43;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 568.

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TYNAN ABBEY
Date: 1877
Nature: Alterations to entrance front including new porch. For Sir James Matthew Stronge, Bt.
Refs: Signed proposals (plans, elevations, perspective view), some dated April 1877 (photographs of missing originals in IAA 018/045);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 568