Unique Scale Model by Benjamin Woodward “The Castellated Gate Lodge” Dromore Castle, Templenoe, Co. Kerry ******************
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[email protected] 663 Unique Scale Model By Benjamin Woodward In 1851 Deane made him a partner in the firm of Deane and “The Castellated Gate Lodge” Woodward, alongside his son, Thomas Newenham Deane. In Dromore Castle, Templenoe, Co. Kerry 1852, when the plans submitted by Woodward for the design of ************************ the new Museum at Trinity College Dublin met with approval, the firm moved to Upper Merrion Street, Dublin. The partnership The above lot is the Scale Model of Dromore Castle Gate continued to flourish in Ireland and England and the acceptance Lodge, designed by Benjamin Woodward, Architect, Cork & of Woodward’s plans for the Oxford University Museum of Natural Dublin, 1816-1861. History, which was begun in 1855, marked the highlight of his This imposing model, is made in two sections, mostly of Baltic career. pitch pine and measuring approximately 105cms (41¼”) high His Irish work included approximately twenty private dwellings x 114cms (45”) wide, on a scale of one inch to one foot. in Kerry, Dublin, Kilkenny and Wexford, his last major project for The Gate Lodge was completed by Benjamin Woodward c.1849, Deane and Woodward being the Kildare Street Club in Dublin. in the Gothic Revival style. The lodge has a chimney at one end Designed in 1858 with Venetian details, it included a magnificent and a hexagonal turret at the other, while the castle has a round central staircase and remarkable stone carvings executed by C.W. turret with spiral staircase and round rooms, attached to a larger Harrison and probably by James O’Shea. It was finished in 1861, round tower. but he did not live to see its completion, dying that year at the Dromore Castle lies in woodland overlooking the Kenmare Bay, age of 45. six miles outside Kenmare on the road to Blackwater Bridge and Woodward was one of the most accomplished, original and Sneem. Commissioned by Denis Mahony and designed and built prolific architects of 19th Century Ireland, designing over by the architect Sir Thomas Deane, the building was started in sixty buildings in the last twelve years of his life alone. He was 1831, but not completed until 1839. Deane’s Scale Model of the also devoted to the conservation of medieval buildings. He Castle is now owned by the National Architectural Archive, Dublin incorporated the original C12 Romanesque chancel during the where it is on permanent display. restoration of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tuam,. He was the first Benjamin Woodward (1816-1861), Architect. Born on the 16th Inspector of National Monuments to be appointed under The Irish November, 1816, in Tullamore, County Offaly, little is known about Board of Works. his early education. However, after the family eventually settled in Reference “Dictionary of Irish Biography”, R.I.A. 2009. Dublin, he began an apprenticeship in civil engineering, probably in 1833, with William Stokes, Civil Engineer, a friend of the family. Provenance: After the death of Denis Mahony, who was a His proficiency in the profession of architectural design was thus Minister of the Church, the castle was left to his son Richard, self-taught. who, when he died in 1870, owned over 26,000 acres in County In June 1844, he produced a set of measured drawings for Holy Kerry. The estate passed to his son Harold Segerson Mahony. A Cross Abbey, Co Tipperary. On the strength of these he was gold-medallist in Philosophy at TCD, he was the last Irishman elected to the Kilkenny Archaeological Society. The drawings to win a Wimbledon Singles title, in 1896, also winning the Irish also caught the eye of Sir Thomas Deane, the celebrated Cork Singles that year. Nine years later, he was tragically killed in a architect. It was this expertise that persuaded Deane to invite cycling accident in Kerry, aged 37. Neither he nor his sister, Nora Woodward to join his Cork firm in 1846. Later that year these Evaleen Hood, had children and the property passed from Nora same drawings were exhibited at the Royal Institute of British to her cousin and mother’s great-nephew, Hughe Bolton Waller. It Architects in London. Woodward was then appointed to help remained in the Waller family until it was sold in 1994. design large scale neo-Gothic works, including Queen’s College Hence by descent to the Present Owners. €3000 - 4000 Cork, (1846-1849), and later The Asylum at Glanmire in Cork. 64 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED.