Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Name: | DOYLE, ROBERT [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1815 |
Nature: | Plans for new fine arts department. Also paid for plans for botanical garden, 1820. |
Refs: | Royal Dublin Society proceedings "Doyle".(IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | BAKER, HENRY AARON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1823-27 |
Nature: | Bust gallery and drawing school on NE side of house. Builder: Manders. |
Refs: | APSD II, D, 76; John Turpin, 'The Dublin Society's School of Architectural Drawing', BIGS 28 (1985), 14; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 417,481n,499. |
Name: | BEHNES, WILLIAM *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1826ca |
Nature: | Statue of George III. Completed in 1845 by Constantine Panormo. |
Refs: |
Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 12. |
Name: | MURRAY, WILLIAM [1] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1838 |
Nature: | Proposals for statue gallery and lecture hall. Not executed. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 647-652 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 200-201); section of gallery exh. RHA 1840, no. 338. |
Name: | PAPWORTH, JOHN THOMAS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1840-41 |
Nature: | Alteration of north wing to provide museum and other improvements, including large lecture room with central skylight; 'in progress' in 1841. Work completed by George Papworth. |
Refs: | Designs exh. RHA 1840, nos. 332,242; 1841, no. 414; APSD, P, 40; David J. Griffin & Caroline. Pegum, Leinster House (Dublin: IAA & OPW, 2000), 72-73,Pl.126. |
Name: | LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1853 |
Nature: | JJL's design for proposed museum of natural history placed second. |
Refs: | B 10, 3 Jan 1852, 13 |
Name: | FERGUSON, DUNCAN CAMPBELL |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1853 |
Nature: | DCF's design for proposed museum of natural history wins competition. |
Refs: | B 10, 3 Jan 1852, 13 |
Name: | DOUGLAS, FRANCIS H. ## |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1868 |
Nature: | Erection of 400 stables on 5 acre site for purposes of Dublin Horse Show. Contractor: Goodfellow. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 14 Jul 1868. |
Name: | DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1880s |
Nature: | Entrance gates, piers and railings. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 499. |
Name: | DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | 1893-97 |
Nature: | New lecture theatre and connecting passage to Science and Art Museum. Rapidly approaching completion, Jan 1897. Builder of lecture theatre: Bolton & Son. Organ by Willis, London. |
Refs: | Designs for & photographs of fittings in sketchbook in NGI, Cat. no. 7396; drawings(s) dated 1894 in OPW; IAA, PKS 0733, B16/10, B16/30, B17/06, B18/05, A07 (Aug 1893-Jul 1895, , pp.98-100,415); B 70, 13 Jun 1896, 519; 64th Report of the Board of Public Works, Ireland (1895), 6; Irish Times, 6 Jan,19 Apr 1897. |
Name: | DARLEY, FREDERICK [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Continued George Papworth's work on Museum. |
Refs: | M. Craig, 'The Society's Buildings' in J. Meenan & Desmond Clarke, eds., RDS: the Royal Dublin Society 1731-1981 (1981), 64. |