Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE |
Date: | 1745 |
Nature: | Designed by RC for James Fitzgerald, 20th Earl of Kildare. Completed by Isaac Ware |
Refs: |
Drawings in IAA, Guinness drawings collection, Acc, 96/68 1/1/1-1/1/23; inscription on foundation stone (text given in J.T. Gilbert, A History of the City of Dublin, Vol. III (1859), 275); The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; David J. Griffin, 'Leinster House and Isaac Ware' in Agnes Bernelle, ed., Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (Dublin, 1992), 60-70; David J. Griffin & Caroline. Pegum, Leinster House (Dublin: IAA & OPW, 2000), 2, 5-29 (illus.), 42-45 (illus.),64-68(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 498-503. |
Name: | LAFRANCHINI, FILIPPO * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE |
Date: | 1750s |
Nature: | Plasterwork in ground-floor dining room attributed to FL by Griffin. |
Refs: |
2 unsigned, undated designs in IAA, Guinness drawings collection, Acc. 96/68, 1/2; repr. in David J. Griffin & Caroline. Pegum, Leinster House (Dublin: IAA & OPW, 2000), Pls. 61 & 62; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 502. |
Name: | WARE, ISAAC # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE |
Date: | 1759c |
Nature: | Completion of staircase, supper room, gallery, saloon, drawing room, Lady Kildare's bedchamber. |
Refs: |
12 unsigned, undated designs in IAA, Guinness drawings collection, Acc. 96/68, 1/3; David J. Griffin, 'Leinster House and Isaac Ware' in Agnes Bernelle, ed., Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (Dublin, 1992), 60-7; David J. Griffin & Caroline. Pegum, Leinster House (Dublin: IAA & OPW, 2000), 3,30-61(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 501-3. |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE |
Date: | 1776-77 |
Nature: | Decoration of picture gallery, for 2nd Duke of Leinster. Duke received 'beautiful design' in Sep 1776 and planned to execute it in the spring of 1777. Executant architect: Thomas Penrose. |
Refs: | Design for end wall of gallery in Penrose Album, NLI (ceiling design seen by C.P. Curran in Penrose Album but now missing); James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (3rd edn., 1995), 1120; David J. Griffin & Caroline. Pegum, Leinster House (Dublin: IAA & OPW, 2000), 4,16,49,70(n.26), Pl.86; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 501-3; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012),112-3(illus.).. |
Name: | OWEN, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE |
Date: | 1780ca |
Nature: | Minor alts. to kitchen wing, basement and second floor. Also unexecuted proposal for dividing ground-floor supper room. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/068.1/4/1,2. See David J. Griffin & Caroline. Pegum, Leinster House (Dublin: IAA & OPW, 2000), ix,4,22,33,67,82, Pls. 27,33,55-6,124. |