Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, PALACE DEMESNE, OBELISK
| Name: | CARR, JOHN # |
| Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, PALACE DEMESNE, OBELISK |
| Date: | 1782-3 |
| Nature: | 114 ft high. Erected by Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh, to commemorate the Duke of Northumberland to whom he owed his preferment and to provide employment. Design claimed by JC but apparently executed (and modified) by Thomas Cooley and Francis Johnston (after Cooley's death). |
| Refs: |
Sketch inscr. 'designed pr J.C. and built by the ld primate of all Ireland 1782' on rear flyleaf of Carr's copy of Roger Morris, Select Architecture (1755) in Sir John Soane's Museum, but see also 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 1; Brian Wragg (ed. Giles Worsley), The Life and Works of John Carr of York (2000), 103-4(illus.); illus. of obelisk as executed in C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Armagh (UAHS, 1999), 267-8; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 136 |
| Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
| Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, PALACE DEMESNE, OBELISK |
| Date: | 1782-83 |
| Nature: | Erected on Knox's Hill for Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh. Was FJ executant architect, for design by John Carr? |
| Refs: | 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 1; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 136. |