Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE

Name: CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE
Date: 1763-75
Nature: For 1st Earl of Charlemont
Refs: Design for staircase string in V & A Drawings Collection, 7078.31 Q2b; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (3rd edn., 1995), 239; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 63-8,204, pl. 93, fig. 7; John Redmill, 'The buildings of William Chambers in Dublin' in M. McCarthy, ed., Lord Charlemont and His Circle (2001), 159-161(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 149-151, Pl.37.

Name: VIERPYL, SIMON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE
Date: 1763p
Nature: SP master mason for construction of same.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 149.

Name: IVORY, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE
Date: 1763p
Nature: JI principal carpenter for construction of same.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 149.

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE
Date: 1789
Nature: Addition of Rockingham library, for James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont. (Demolished in early 1930s.)
Refs: James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated;  E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),151.

Name: CIPRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Connected with chiaroscuros for library
Refs: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England 1537-1837 (1962,1970), II, 185-190.

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Decoration of entrance hall.
Refs: Photograph from Sibthorpe collection in IAA Reading Room Box Files (012/048 Y1,Y2)