James Gandon - Other Irish Works

Other Irish Works

Gandon's other works in the city included:

The Four Courts of 1786,

The centre portion of King's Inns Henrietta Street begun in 1795 and completed in 1816 by his pupil Henry Aaron Baker,

The improvement of the Rotunda Assembly rooms 1786.

Gandon's least well known building in Dublin is his Royal Military Infirmary of 1787 on Infirmary Road.

Gandon worked for the Wide Street Commissioners and designed the facades for the shops at ground floor of D'Olier Street, Burgh Quay and some surrounding streets.

One of his most prestigious commissions, which came in 1785, was to extend Pearce's monumental Houses of Parliament, for which he built the (well known today) curved screen wall which links his new corinthian portico for the House of Lords facing College Street to Pearce's original building. This building is now the Bank of Ireland.

His work in Ireland was not confined to Dublin, nor to civic and municipal commissions.

In 1784 he designed the new courthouse and Gaol in Broad Street (Demolished) in Waterford

and he also worked on many private houses, including Abbeville, Dublin which he designed for John Beresford in 1792.

and Emsworth, Malahide, Co. Dublin for Mr. J. Woodmason of 1794,

and Sandymount Park for the painter William Ashford.

He designed Emo Court, Co. Laois in 1790-96 for the Earl of Portarlington, and several buildings surrounding the house including Emo Church.

His town planning work included creating a new setting for the Custom House with a curved terrace of townhouses at Beresfort Place, Dublin,

and the New Geneva town in Co. Waterford which was never completed.

He designed a number of buildings including walled garden, and farm buildings at Carriglass just outside Longford Town.