Daniel Robertson

Daniel Robertson

Daniel Robertson (died 1849) was a British architect.

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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[1]
  • St. Swithun's parish church, Kennington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1828[2]
  • 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)
  • Johnstown Castle in Co. Wexford (home of the Grogan & Morgan families)
  • Wilton Castle in Co. Wexford (home of the Alcock family)

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 Sugar Loaf mountain in County Wicklow.

References

  1. ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 291
  2. ^ a b Pevsner, 1966, page 259
  3. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 180
  4. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 216
  5. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 274

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