Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.)