Daniel Robertson (architect)
Daniel Robertson | |
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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
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
Sources and further reading
- ISBN 0-300-07207-4.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 159.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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