Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English architect, for whom see A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary (1985) and Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 207. Detmar Blow produced designs for an orangery for Viscount De Vesci at Abbey Leix, Co. Laois, which date from not later than 1910.(1)

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(1) The three plans, sold by Mealy's, Castlecomer, 3 & 4 Dec 1997 (Lot 459) give Blow' address as 9 King's Bench Walk, which he had left by 1910.


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Building: CO. LAOIS, ABBEY LEIX
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed orangery. For 5th? Viscount de Vesci.
Refs: Set of 3 plans sold by Mealy's, Castlecomer, 3 & 4 Dec 1997 (Lot 459) (see catalogue, p.77; see also A.P.W. Malcomson, The De Vesci Papers (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2006), 165)

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE MANOR
Date: ?
Nature: Set of Venetian Renaissance lanterns in long gallery.  Removal of organ in hall also attr. to DB by Williams. For 4th Earl of Dunraven.
Refs: Christie, Manson & Woods, Adare Manor, Ireland, sale catalogue 9-10 Jun 1982, introduction by Knight of Glin, Lots J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 

Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE VILLAGE
Date: ?
Nature: 'Two terraces of dormered and gabled cottages radiate from the [village] hall, their porches upheld by rustic posts.  These were designed by Detmar Blow.' For 4th Earl of Dunraven.
Refs: J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 264.