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British architect
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Daniel Robertson .
Daniel Robertson
Died 1849 Nationality British Occupation Architect
Daniel Robertson (died 1849) was a British architect.
Career
Robertson may have worked under
Robert Adam in London, England; later he worked at
Kew and
Oxford . Robertson was an early exponent of the
Norman Revival, designing both
St Clement's Church, Oxford
[1] and St Swithun's parish church in
Kennington, Berkshire
[2] (now in
Oxfordshire ) in this style as early as 1828.
Robertson then moved to
Ireland , where he had considerable success and carried out commissions for notable country houses particularly in the southeastern part of the country. His work was in both the
Neoclassical style and then in the
Gothic Revival style of the 1830s with which he may be most associated.
Works
Robertson's buildings include:
Oriel College, Oxford : west range of St. Mary's Quad, 1826
[3]
Wadham College, Oxford : fireplace in hall, 1826
[4]
Oxford University Press , Oxford, 1826-30
[5]
St. Clement's parish church, Oxford, 1828
St. Swithun's parish church, Kennington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1828
[2]
St. Matthais' Church , Hatch Street, Dublin, 1842.
Ballinkeele House (home of the Maher family)
Bloomfield Castle in
County Wexford
Carrigglas Manor in
County Longford (owned by
Thomas Langlois Lefroy , Chief Justice of Ireland from 1852 to 1866))
Castleboro House (home of the Carew family)
Dunleckney Manor in
County Carlow (seat of the Bagenal and Newton families)
Lisnavagh House , in
County Carlow (seat of the McClintock Bunbury family, Baron Rathdonnell)
Johnstown Castle in Co. Wexford (home of the Grogan & Morgan families)
Wilton Castle in Co. Wexford (home of the Alcock family)
Wells House , Wells, Gorey Co. Wexford.
In addition to numerous major country house commissions, Robertson was also particularly noted as a landscape designer. His greatest accomplishments in that field were at
Powerscourt and
Killruddery , both of which capture long-distance views of the
Great Sugar Loaf mountain in
County Wicklow . Wells House also has plans of the gardens designed there by Daniel Robertson.
References
^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 291
^
a
b Pevsner, 1966, page 259
^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 180
^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 216
^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 274
Sources and further reading
Colvin, H.M. (1997) [1954]. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 . New Haven:
Yale University Press . pp. not stated.
ISBN
0-300-07207-4 .
Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire .
The Buildings of England . Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books . p. 159.
Sherwood, Jennifer;
Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire .
The Buildings of England . Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books . pp. 53, 91, 180, 216, 274, 291.
ISBN
0-14-071045-0 .
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