Selected: CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART
Name: | BOGGS, ALEXANDER |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | 1782 |
Nature: | 'Alexander Bogs' paid for plans for offices. For Robert Stewart. |
Refs: | PRONI D654/H1/1 |
Name: | STUART, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | 1782-83 |
Nature: | Temple of the Winds, for Robert Stewart. |
Refs: | Payment for plans in account book among Londonderry papers in PRONI, D654/H1/1. |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | 1783 |
Nature: | Wyatt paid for designs for house (£83) and stables (£25) by Robert Stewart, MP (later 1st Marquess of Londonderry). |
Refs: |
PRONI Londonderry MSS: payments recorded in account book ref. D654/H1/1 p.39; ground and first-floor plans for stables only, one signed and dated June 1783, D654/M71/4b,c. (Information from Anne Casement, Magherintemple, Ballycastle, Co. Antrim); an anonymous undated ground plan for proposed stables is in PRONI, Caledon Papers, D654/M/71/4D, see PRONI E-catalogue, Mountstewart Papers, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx (last visited, Nov 2011). |
Name: | DANCE, GEORGE (JUNIOR) # |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | 1804-5 |
Nature: | GD gave advice and designs for building of west wing. Executant architect: John Ferguson. For Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry. |
Refs: |
3 drawings, and letter from Dance to Lord Londonderry, 1804, in Soane Museum D 3/9/4-6 and D3/9/1a (see Jill Lever, Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum (Oxford University Press, 2004); G. Jackson-Stops & H. Montgomery Hyde, Mount Stewart (National Trust, 1978), 5; PRONI D654/H1/4; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of North County Down (UAHS, 2002), 96-7. |
Name: | FERGUSON, JOHN [1] |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | 1805ca |
Nature: | Superintended erection of George Dance's design. |
Refs: | Drawings and correspondence including 3 drawings by Ferguson and letter from Ferguson to the Earl of Londonderry, 29 Feb 1804, in Soane Museum, D3/9/1-3 and D3/9/1d (see Jill Lever, Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, Oxford University Press, 2004); PRONI D654/41/4 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | WYATT, BENJAMIN DEAN # |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | 1820s |
Nature: | Hussey proposes that BDW and Philip Wyatt worked at Mount Stewart for 3rd Marquess of Londonderry as they were employed by him at Londonderry House, London, during the 1820s: 'the character of the building as a whole strongly suggests that date and the authorship of James Wyatt's sons'. |
Refs: | Christopher Hussey, 'Mount Stewart, County Down - I', Country Life 78, 5 Oct 1935, 361 |
Name: | COATES, FRANCIS * |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | 1848 |
Nature: | FC supplier of stained glass windows for dome in hall. |
Refs: | Anne Casement, 'William Vitruvius Morrison's scheme fore Mount Stewart, County Down: was it ever realised?', Irish Architectural and Decorative studies 7 (2004), 57 |
Name: | MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS |
Building: | CO. DOWN, MOUNT STEWART |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Adds. & alts., including new entrance front and portico, not carried out until 1845-49, several years after WVM's death, under supervision of Charles Campbell. For Charles William Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. |
Refs: | John Morrison, 'Life of the late William Vitruvius Morrison' in John Weale, ed., Quarterly Papers on Architecture I (1843-44), 6; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 132-134(illus.); Anne Casement, 'William Vitruvius Morrison's scheme fore Mount Stewart, county Down: was it ever realised?', Irish Architectural and Decorative studies 7 (2004), 32-59(illus.) |