Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Brighton, for whom see Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British alrchitects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1120. According to this source the Brighton Gazette reported in 1829 that Amos Henry Wilds had just returned from Limerick where he was engaged upon 'some plans for the improvement and embellishment of that city' and a house for Sir Aubrey Hunter (sic). The latter was almost certainly Sir Aubrey De Vere Hunt, who enlarged his house, Curragh Chase, near Adare, at about this time.(1) The 'improvement and embellishment' at Limerick may be the Pery Square development.(2)

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(1) Bence Jones, 97.
(2) See Judith Hill, The Building of Limerick (1991), 135ff.


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Building: CO. LIMERICK, CURRAGH CHASE
Date: 1829ca
Nature: Adds. for Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt probably by AHW.
Refs: Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 97(illus.); Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1120.

Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, PERY SQ
Date: 1829ca
Nature: AHW involved in plans for 'improvement and embellishment' of Limerick in or before 1829 which may be the laying out of Pery Sq. (see Judith Hill, |The Building of Limerick| (1991), 135ff.)
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (3rd edn., 1995), 1053