English architect, for whom see Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 197-203. Decimus Burton laid out the grounds and designed various buildings for the Zoological Gardens in Phoenix Park in 1832 and between 1834 and 1849 he was engaged on the general improvement of the Park. In 1849 he reported on the new building and on the proposed museum site at Trinity College. Three years later he was one of the architects invited by the college to submit plans for new lecture rooms but declined the invitation. During the 1840s he also designed substantial improvements at Cobh, Co. Cork, for George Alan Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton.
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References
Saunders's News-Letter, 24 Aug 1832.
Drawings and letters in OPW, plans in PRO MPD141, also designs for lodges in NLI, Portfolio 26. See also catalogue of exhibition 'Decimus Burton 1800-1881' (Institute of Landscape Horticulture of Ireland and OPW, 1988); see also F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 152.
TCD Muniments, MUN/P/2/312; PRONI D664/AA/15; for a summary of his report see R.B. McDowell, 'The Campanile - A Centenary', in Trinity, No. 4 (Michaelmas, 1952), 22.
Letter declining invitation, 27 Aug 1852, in TCD Muniments, MUN/P/2326.
Midleton Papers, Guildford Muniments Room, ref. 1248; Cork Examiner, 26 Mar 1845; B 3, 12 Apr 1845, 170.
8 work entries listed in chronological order for BURTON, DECIMUS #
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ZOO |
| Date: |
1831-32 |
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Layout of grounds and designs for buildings. |
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Saunders's News-Letter, 24 Aug,12 Sep 1832; NLI MS 14,895; Dublin Historical Record (Sep 1971), 104; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),306-7.
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK |
| Date: |
1832-1849 |
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Improvements, lodges &c. |
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Plans & letters in OPW; plans in PRO MPD141, also PRO Guide to Maps 3883; designs for lodges in NLI Portfolio 26; Colvin; 19 drawings of lodges, dated 1836-9, in NLI, A.D. 2111-2129; Decimus Burton 1800-1881 (exhibition catalogue, Institution of Landscape Horticulture of Ireland and OPW, 1988) contains copy of Burton's report on the Park and suggestions for its improvement, 27 Sep 1834; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 291,296,300,309-11,.
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CO. LIMERICK, GLENSTAL CASTLE |
| Date: |
1834 |
| Nature: |
Unexecuted designs, for Sir Matthew Barrington. |
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Drawings at Glenstal, Co. Limerick; M. Tierney & J. Cornforth, 'Glenstal Castle, Co. Limerick', Country Life 156, 3 Oct 1974, 935,936(illus.).
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CO. CORK, MIDLETON PARK |
| Date: |
1840s |
| Nature: |
Proposed planting work, for 5th Viscount Midleton. |
| Refs: |
Plan in Guildford Muniments Room, Midleton Papers, ref. 1248
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| Building: |
CO. CORK, COBH, ESPLANADE & IMPROVEMENTS |
| Date: |
1843-1850 |
| Nature: |
2,000ft esplanade on new quay, crescent and several ranges of new buildings 'to be executed by Sir Thomas Deane and Mr Kearns Deane under the direction of Mr Decimus Burton'. For 5th Viscount Midleton; carried out by Thomas & Kearns Deane. |
| Refs: |
Midleton Papers, Guildford Muniments Room, ref. 1248; Cork Examiner, 26 Mar 1845; B 3, 12 Apr 1845, 170; Bryan A. Cody, The river Lee, Cork, and the Corkonians (1859), 133; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 200; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 28
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| Building: |
CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH, BUILDING SCHEME |
| Date: |
1845-1846 |
| Nature: |
Unexecuted project for 3rd Earl of Howth |
| Refs: |
Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 200.
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| Building: |
CO. CORK, MIDLETON PARK |
| Date: |
1848 |
| Nature: |
Map of Midleton Park 'as proposed to be leased for building'. |
| Refs: |
Map, signed and dated Aug 1848, in Guildford Muniments Room, Midleton Papers 145/Box 93
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE |
| Date: |
1849;1852 |
| Nature: |
Reports on proposed sites for campanile, 1849. Invited to submit plans for new lecture rooms but declines, 1852. |
| Refs: |
TCD Muniments, MUN/P/2/312,326; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),399-400.
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