1819 – Shelton Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Architect: Sir Richard Morrison
The ancestral seat of the Earls of Wicklow was the palatial Shelton Abbey, near Arklow,
The ancestral seat of the Earls of Wicklow was the palatial Shelton Abbey, near Arklow,
Five-bay gable-ended Gothic Methodist church, with the façade finished in uncoursed rubble stone with dressed stone to the openings.
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A fine Renaissance Revival style church of 1861 to designs by Patrick Byrne. A central bay projects slightly and rises above the cornice line to merge with a short bell tower with domed roof.
Originally a hunting lodge of ca 1750, enlarged as a castellated style house during the early 1800s by John Proby,
Designed by noted English church architect Sir Arthur W. Blomfield, the gift of 5th Earl of Carysfort William Prob,