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Architect: John Nash Appealing gothick treatment for a gate lodge to the main castle. Unusual in that the main house is in a Scottish baronial style. The facade is a charming sham, a side elevation shows an ordinary two-room cottage with one elaborate facade to the avenue.
Construction on St. Mary's Cathedral started in the 12th century, and was completed around 1194. The full title of this Cathedral is the "Cathedral and Parochial Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary". It was started in 1172 by Donal Mor O'Brien, the last King of Munster. The design has strong indications of both Romanesque and
‘Rem does not speak in the provinces’ – so went the beautiful rumour of the fax sent to the Architectural Association of Ireland from oma in 1996,
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Architect: Fred Chancellor Published in The Building News, August 22 1873: "One of our illustrations this week is a Lodge recently erected for J. Jolliffe Tufnell, Esq., at Langley's-park, near Chelmsford. It is built of red brick and oak framework, filled in with ornamental plastering. The architect is Mr. Fred, Chancellor. "
Architect: Alfred Waterhouse ' Alfred Waterhouse's major existing work and masterpiece in Manchester is the town hall (1868) with a design in Venetian Gothic. The building is executed with solid and splendid interior detail. Completed in 1887, this most impressive neo-Gothic building cost a million pounds and is acknowledged as a masterpiece in its own
Architect: Fred Chancellor From The Building News, October 23 1874: "We give this week plans and sketch of a pair of cottages, several of which have been built upon the estates of G. Alan Lowndes, Esq., in the county of Essex. The feature of the plan of each cottage is a good-sized dining-room, with a
Architect: J.J. McCarthy The present-day entrance gates, offices and mortuary chapel at Glasnevin were designed by J.J. McCarthy (1817 -1882), Ireland’s pre-eminent architect of Catholic churches. Hiberno-Romanesque in style, a symbol of the new Catholic Ireland of the late nineteenth century. The chapel comprises a nave, sanctuary, two transepts and a sacristy. The west porch
Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.
Blarney Castle, County Cork, Irelend
The images and text of this Building of the Month are reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. More drawings from the Irish Folklife Architectural Drawing Collection are available here Almost ten years ago I received a call from Rosa Meehan, curator with the National Museum of Ireland, to ask if I
Architect: Sextus Dyball From The Architect, November 13, 1875:This cottage residence has been recently erected upon a site in Church Road, Upper Norwood, for Mr. James Franks. The accommodation was especially arranged to suit the requirements of the owner. The brickwork is executed in dark-coloured stock bricks, relieved with bands and arches of blue and
Architect: M. Amoudru
Architect: Robert W. Edis Designed for for J.R. Corbett esq with North, South, West Elevations & Section including ground plans & 1st floor plans published in The Building News, January 1st 1875.
Rough men-at-arms, cross-gartered to the knees Or shod in iron, climbed the narrow stairs
County Down has the Mourne Mountains, beaches, golf courses and hedge mazes offset a natural landscape of ethereal beauty
Architect: Rawlinson Parkinson Perspective & birds eye views including plans, for R.J. Ashton esq. at Bishop Gate House and published in The Building News, April 1st 1870.
Architect: Alfred G. Jones The former Coburg Gardens (now Iveagh Gardens) hosted the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865 and a further exhibition in 1874. After the exhibitions, the building were converted to examination halls for the Royal University of Ireland, which was created in 1880. And later became the central building of University College Dublin.
Architect: G.J. & F.W. Skipper "This house was built about three years ago, and the peculiarity of plan is due to its having no view at the back. The ground floor is raised above the general ground-level, and a simple gravel path inclined all ways leads up to the front entrance. The materials are split
Architect: C.M. Stedman Designed for R. Lathbury esq. and published in The Building News, October 14th 1881. "The site of this house is the south-west angle of the fine old garden of Park House, Chiswick, and has a frontage on the south to a second-rate street. This explains the model of the plan arrangement. The
Bungalow Bliss by Jack Fitzsimons was the best-known book, but there were other planbooks in Ireland during the 1970s. The Irish Bungalow Book by Ted McCarthy, and published by Mercier Press, Cork, circa 1979 displays a good selection of the standard Irish house designs from the period. Essentially designed as self-build projects, these books did
A look at Ireland's most famous castle, Kylemore Abbey, in pictures. If you're visiting Connemara, you can't skip a visit to this beautiful Irish castle and Victorian walled garden. Read more about planning your visit to Connemara, Ireland.
It was 2003 when I was last in Ireland, with the Atlantic Botanic Garden. So taken was I with the diversity of garden design and breadth of plant material (sighting…
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Architect: Alfred Waterhouse "We give this week illustrations of a house, at present in course of construction by Mr. A. Waterhouse, A.R.A., for his own residence. It is situated at Yattendon, a small village about ten miles to the west tif Reading, in a district interesting alike from the beauty of its scenery and its
Desmond Guinness and his wife, Mariga, brought Irish Georgian architecture, furniture, and art onto the international stage in the 1960s
On a hilltop about a mile from Doagh is a Bronze Age whinstone megalith known as The Holestone. Couples used to promise marriage by clasping hands through the hole in the stone, a convention that can...
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This fixer-upper is in need of a complete renovation, but could be a stunning property once it’s done. Stone farmhouses in Ireland are rarely priced at prices like this - take a look!
