Chichester House (College Green)

I suppose the Irish Architecural Archive on Merrion Square would be a good place to start your research, good luck.

I saw one on a lecture some years ago (I think). Though I’m not sure of the source, it might have been taken from a book on the history of the bank, or from an Edward McParland article on Edward Lovett Pearce. As blaise says, the IAA would be the best starting point.

By co-incidence, I was looking that building up at eactly the same time. If you do find a drawing could you post it on the site?

Thanks

I’m not sure that there are any images of Chichester House, unless it appears in the background of one of the Francis Place drawings.

There’s this map of it published in McCullough’s ‘Dublin, an Urban History’ and he records that Chichester House was a re-naming of Cary’s Hospital built in 1595. If that’s true then the little cluster of structures, labelled ‘The Hospital’ on Speed’s map of 1610 may be a diagramatic representation of the building.

Extract of Speed’s map showing Trinity and ‘The Hospital’ north-west of it.

Its easy to forget just how old this city is.

@nneligan wrote:

I am trying to find a drawing (if one exists) of Chichester House which was originally located where the Bank of Ireland is on College Green. I have searched in vain, and was hoping there was someone who might know of such a picture.

I came across another small image of Chichester House from an undated title map that looks to be early 17th century.

This map is orientated the opposite way to Speed’s map (i.e. from the north), but otherwise, the volume, orientation and general massing of the building equates reasonably well on all three manuscript sources. It’s still diagramatic stuff though, you’d hesitate to state conclusively that Chichester House was a large detached dormer bungalow!

Many thanks for your replies, especially the old charts. Apologies for not replying sooner:)