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An album of designs by William Farrell on paper watermarked 1814 and 1817 is in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, ref. RAN 1/N/4.(14) Plans, sections and elevations by Farrell for outbuildings at Glanmore Castle, Co. Wicklow, 1815, are in the IAA, Acc. 88/90.
Aged and Infirm Carpenters' Asylum (founded 1832): president from 1835(15) or earlier until 1842(16) or later.
Addresses:(20) 61 Queen Street, 1812; 11 Kildare Street, 1813-21; 46 St Stephen's Green, 1823-26; 55 St Stephens' Green East, 1827-33; 33 Dawson Street and Sydney Lodge, 1835; 2 Ely Place, 1836-37; 17 Merrion Row, 1839; 112 Baggot Street Lower, 1839;(21) 113 Baggot Street Lower, 1843 until death.
(1) Board of Works minutes, 30 Dec 1808, 20 Jul,16 Aug 1810 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44); the circumstances of his dismissal are decribed in full by Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan, 'New light on Ballyfin', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 8 (2005), 92-93.
(2) Letter from Rolf Loeber to E. McParland, 9 Nov 1973 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(3) 'An alphabetical list of the Freemen of the City of Dublin, 1774-1824', The Irish Ancestor XV (1983), Nos. 1 & 2, 52; his admission was by Grace Especial rather than birth or service.
(4) Gentleman's and Citizen's Amanack (1814), 185.
(5) See Wilson's Dublin Directory, 1824, 135. A descendant of Farrell's pupil Sandham Symes, William Harvey, 86 Beechwood Drive, Broomhill, Glasgow, holds the following drawings by Farrell which appear to relate to his responsibilities as architect for the province of Armagh: undated plan and elevations for a neo-Norman cathedral, signed William Farrell, Architect; unsigned, undated plan and elevations (in same hand) for a Gothic cathedral; unsigned, undated west elevation of a church with a square tower and side entrances.
(6) North West Ulster, 64.
(7) Royal Dublin Society Proceedings 76/41 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(8) RIAI council meeting minutes, 18 Nov 1851, 94; general meeting minutes, 18 Dec 1851, 99; B 9, 20 Dec 1851, 805.
(9) Information about Farrell's marriage and the baptisms of several of their children is from Irish Genealogy, http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie (last visited, Feb 2014).
(10) G.D. Burtchaell & T.U. Sadleir, eds., Alumni Dublinenses (1935), I, 274.
(11) During the 1830s Wilson's and the Post Office directories list the practice as 'William Farrell & Sons', but a drawing for Dromore church, Co. Tyrone, dated October 1839, in RCB, Portfolio 3A is signed 'William Farrell & Son, 112 Baggot St Lwr, Dublin'.
(12) RIA, Haliday Pamphlets 1542/7 (photocopy in IAA).
(13) IB 36, 15 Jul 1894, 169.
(14) See John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96-97.
(15) Freeman's Journal, 23 Nov 1835.
(16) Pettigrew & Oulton's and Thom's Directories.
(17) Account of inaugural meeting in Civil Engineer & Architect's Journal 2 (Oct 1839), 394.
(18) RIAI council meeting minutes, 12 Dec 1842, 19.
(19) Typescript list of RIAI officers in IAA; RIAI report, 21 Nov 1850 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(20) From Wilson's, Post Office, Pettigrew & Oulton's and Thom's directories unles otherwise indicated.
(21) See note 7, above.
Refs: Elevation in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) no. 60; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 97.
Nature: Scheme by Charles Lilly, 1790, apparently completed by Farrell, who made extensive additions, including E. wing and stair hall at the rear. For Andrew Nugent.
Nature: Outbuildings, for Francis Synge.
Refs: Plans, sections & elevations, dated 1815, in IAA, Glanmore Castle drawings, Acc. 88/90.
Refs: Ground and gallery plans and N. elevation in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 3-5; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 595; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 298.
Refs: Site plan and plan of school house &c, former dated Dec 1815, in collection of Church of Ireland Training College, Rathmines.
Nature: Submits plans for alts.
Nature: Designs for addition of Gothic chapel wing and offices to existing classical block.
Nature: 'The church has been lately re-built after a design suggested by Mr French [i.e.Michael Frederick Trench], of Heywood...skilfully carried into effect by Mr. Farrel, architect' (Brewer). 'The church, completed in 1818 by aid of a loan of £2500 from the late Board of First Fruits is a handsome building of hewn stone in the pointed style of architecture: the interior is fitted up neatly but without any display of ornamental decoration; a gallery, in which is an organ, extends across the west end; the east window is of modern painted glass. The belfry tower is that of the former church, which was allowed to remain when the rest of the edifeice was taken down; it stands a little detached from the main building.'(Lewis).
Refs: J.N. Brewer, Beauties of Ireland (1825), I, 246; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), 584.
Nature: New church built 1819 at cost of £1,569.4s.7¼d. WF corresponds with Primate Beresford about it. Did he design it?
Refs: NLI, special list 155 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy & Parishes (1911), 377; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 128.
Nature: Tenders invited for carrying out alterations to designs by WF.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 23 Jul 1819.
Nature: New glebe house opposite church for Rev. James Spencer Knox. Cost £4,000; 'gaunt cubic house' (Rowan).
Nature: Large classical house incorporating earlier parts, for Sir Henry Brooke, Bt. Contractors: Colborne & Richards.
Refs: Indenture between Thomas Colbourne of Camden Street, Dublin, and Richard Richards of Roscommon, builders, and Henry Brooke of Colebrooke, for the building of a new house at Colebrooke, to be finished by 1 January 1823, for £9,700: 0: 0d., to the satisfaction of William Farrell, architect, and bond of indemnity from Thomas Colbourne, Richard Richards and John Murphy to Henry Brooke [20 June 1820] in PRONI, Landed Estates Courts rentals, D3004/B/8 also T1042/41 (see PRONI e-catalogue); specification and account of charges, 1820, in PRONI, T1042/39 (see PRONI e-catalogue); A. Day, P. McWilliams & L. English, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland 4 (1990), 7; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 200-201.
Nature: Executed to designs of WF (winner of competition?). Plaque in hall has inscr. 'Architect William Farrell. Opened 3 Oct 1820'.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 11-14; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96 (photographs in IAA); side elvation in posession of William Harvey (a descendant of Farrell's pupil Sandham Symes), 86 Beechwood Drive, Broomhill, Glasgow .
Nature: Attributed to WF by Williams.
Nature: Remodelled by WF at cost of £3,000.. Work supervised by Henry Lambert. Contractor: Baker, Williams & Cockburn.
Nature: New church in Tudor idiom. WF reports on old church (built 1698-1701) in 1819. Architect for rebuilding, begun Aug 1821 with grant of £3,850 from Board of First Fruits. Contractor: Abel Bass. Bass's estimate of £107.10s.8d. for building wall round churchyard accepted Jul 1822, as also Charles Gibbons's estimate of £265 for railings. church consecrated, 12 Dec 1824.
Refs: Alice M. Best, 'St Paul's Parish, Dublin', JRSAI 104 (1974), 24; Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 219; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 241.
Nature: By WF and John Meason, for Henry Halton.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 607.
Nature: Plans for offices by WF, 1823.
Nature: New church replacing earlier one; 'it was built at an expense of about £3500, of which £1022 was a loan and £900 a gift, in 1822, from the late Board of First Fruits' (Lewis).
Nature: Large classical house and two gate lodges, main lodge based on design by Henry Hakewill for Blenheim Palace. For 2nd Marquess of Ely. House blown up in 1970.
Nature: New court house which 'may be attributed with confidence to William Farrell in view of its similarity to his designs for Carrick-on-Shannon though the Parliamentary Gazetteer says it is...after a design by Bowden'. (Bowden died in 1822.) Mulligan gives court house to WF but says that Bowden had 'proposed a design, but died in 1822'.
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 55(illus.),56; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013),252.
Nature: WF prepares designs for house and offices for perpetual curacy of Balleek.
Refs: 3 sheets of drawings (plans, section, elevation), signed and dated Jul 1825, in PRONI, DIO/4/22/7/14 (see PRONI e-catalogue).
Nature: New church. Tenders to be submitted to 'Architect of the Board of First Fruits [for] Armagh, 55 St Stephen's Green', March 1825. Loan of £784.12s.3¾d. from Board of First Fruits.
Nature: New hall and tower church erected to standard William Farrell design.
Nature: New kitchen. Contractor: Sinclair Carroll (£475.4s.5d).
Nature: Erected as chapel-of-ease to St Peter's church; 'an unpretending edifice of grey stone' (Bassett). Tenders invited Apr 1827. FS laid 10 Dec 1827. Corporation donated £300. Board of First Fruits donated £900 in 1829.
Nature: Simple Gothic, hall and tower type, with tower and spire. Built with loan of £1500 from Board of First Fruits and £800 from Rev. Gray Porter. Opened for worship by Dec 1828.
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 14: Parishes of Co. Fermanagh 1834-5 (1992), 37; J.B. Leslie, Clogher Clergy and Parishes (1929), 165; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 320-321; illus. in Clergy of Clogher (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 38; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 148.
Nature: Completion of tower by 'Cobden and Sands' of London to design by William Farrell.
Refs: Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 102; J. Frederick Rankin, Down Cathedral (1997), 123.
Nature: 2-storey Classical block, for Theophilus Lucas-Clements. Described in OS memoir for parish of Drung as 'lately erected...a beautiful modern mansion'.
Refs: Ainsworth Report, 406 (E.McP); Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 40: Counties of South Ulster 1834-8, 21; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 239(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 560.
Building: KEVIN V. MULLIGAN, THE BUILDINGS OF IRELAND: SOUTH ULSTER (2013), 115, PL.79.
Nature: Rebuilding of church originally designed by Francis Johnston (except for tower) with side aisles, balconies and probably new roof.
Refs: Plans in PRONI T1257/1,2 (see PRONI e-catalogue); R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup and P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 134-5; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 115, Pl.79; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 120.
Nature: Addition of N aisle.
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore , 97(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 190.
Nature: Addition 'according to plans by Mr Farrell, architect to Board of First Fruits'. £300 granted by Board of First Fruits for same 1830.
Refs: Drogheda Journal, 29 May 1830; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 584; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 276.
Nature: New chapel-of-ease for 400 persons for Tynan parish built 1830 at cost of about £1,600. Given to WF by Mulligan.
Refs: RIA, OS memoirs, Box 18 (or see Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 1: Parishes of Co. Armagh, 1835-9, 125); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 382; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 126.
Nature: Built as a dower house for Colebrooke Park 'presumably also by Farrell'. For Sir Henry Brooke.
Nature: 'The new parochial church, erected in the townland of Laragh in the year 1831, is a neat oblong building, capable of accommodating about 250 parishioners.'(OS Memoirs). Design given to William Farrell by Mulligan.
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 1: Parishes of Co. Armagh, 1835-9, 41; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 536; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 242.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 447.
Nature: New church, consecrated 1831. 3-bay hall with bellcote, angle buttresses and porch.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 500; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 126.
Nature: New church. £1000 donated by Countess of Rossmore, loan of £2000 from Board of First Fruits, £1000 bequeathed by Mrs Jackson; remainder raised by subscription. Site next to existing church approved, Jan 1831. Church opened, 24 Feb 1836. Builder: John Clarke.
Refs: St Patrick's Church, Monaghan (illustrated booklet published by St Patrick's Church post 2002), 5-6; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 465-6, Pl.62.
Nature: WF makes proposals for rebuilding, not carried out. For 2nd Marquess of Abercorn.
Nature: Hall and tower church erected at expense of Jane, Dowager Countess of Rosse (£2,000).
Refs: Inscr. on church giving architect's name and date; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 65; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 276; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 250.
Nature: New church, 'a very neat building , by a gift of £900 from the late Board of First Fruits' (Lewis). 'One of William Farrell's ubiquitous single-cell designs' (Mulligan). 3-bay nave, short chancel, bellcote and battlemented porch on W front.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 415; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 576 exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 246.
Nature: New church, 'resembling in front one of the grand altars of York Minster', built on ground given by Lord Charlemont. WF corresponded with Primate Beresford about it. Did he design it?
Refs: NLI, special list 155 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Slater's Irish Directory (1846); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 263.
Nature: New chapel-of-ease for parish of Killeshandra.. Loan of £800 from Board of First Fruits and donation of £100 from Lord Farnham. 'The standard three-bay single-cell design, here in the service of the parish of Killeshandra.' (Mulligan).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 142; Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 243(illus.).
Nature: New church. 5-bay hall and chancel with 3-bay W front.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 362; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 121..
Nature: New market house for 2nd Earl of Leitrim. Builder: James Creddan, Enniskillen.
Refs: A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 3,389,582.
Nature: Small Gothic church, 'built to a standard design' by WF.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 330; illus. in Clergy of Clogher (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 54.
Nature: New church for newly formed ecclesiastical district 'built to William Farrell's most ubiquitous chapel of ease design' (Mulligan). 3-bay hall short chancel, pinnacled bellcote and corner buttresses, battlemented porch.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 211; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 246.
Nature: New chapel of ease in Drumgoon parish.'Built...to William Farrell's standard single-cell design' (Mulligan). 3-bay with bellcote at W end and shallow chancel.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 293; exterior illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 241.
Nature: New church 'built in 1834 to a design by William Farrell' (Mulligan). 3-bay hall and tower type.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 559; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 241(illus.).
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996 , 232(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 201.
Nature: 'solid stone house...with the recessed panel decoration and cubic massing characteristic of William Farrell, who may well have been the architect'.
Nature: 'The Bishop [George de la Poer Beresford] has lately erected a palace in lieu of the old one…The new palace…is built in the Grecian Doric style and covered with Roman cement. It appears too lofty, and in other repects is not well proportioned. The drive from the public road…is badLy managed, being tortured into short curves, for which the character of the ground is not fitted.' (Binns) Given to William Farrell by Mulligan.
Refs: Jonathan Binns, The Miseries and Beauties of Ireland (1837), I, 306; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), Pl.54. 396.
Nature: New church, replacing one of 1688. Gothic, with 5-bay nave, 2-storey pinnacled porch, pinnacled belfry and short chancel.. By W. Farrell & Son.
Refs: Signed and dated drawings in RCB Library, portfolio 20; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 375; Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),243(illus.).
Refs: Drawings in RCB Library,signed, and approved in 1838 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 453; illus. in Clergy of Clogher (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 89.
Nature: Primitive neo-Norman five-bay hall with bellcote and three porches. By William Farrell & Son. Consecrated 2 Aug 1840.
Refs: Drawings, s. & d. William Farrell & Son, 1838, in RCB Library, portfolio 3A; J.B. Leslie, Clogher Clergy and Parishes (1929), 169; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 295; illus. in Clergy of Clogher (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), Pt. 1, 40.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 443; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 128.
Nature: WF responsible for nave only, built at sole expense of Lord John George Beresford. Completed Aug 1842. Consecrated 7 Aug 1843.
Nature: New church 'in the Saxon style of architecture' (replacing one of 1795)with 5-bay nave, short chancel and tower at W. end. Designed by WF for Rev. G.N.Tredennick. Completed 1842. Cost: £3,405,11s.8d.
Refs: B.H. Blacker, Sketches of Irish Churches, ? ? (B of I); Rev. F.E. Bland, Stoiry of Crinken 1840-1940, 7; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 289.
Nature: New church by William Farrell & Son. 3-bay hall with bellcote. Also lodges?
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 265; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 128.
Refs: Plans & elevations, signed William Farrell & Son and dated 25 May 1840, in RCB Library, portfolio 6 (illus. in on-line catalogue www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org); Christian Examiner, 1, no. 8, 1 Aug 1840, 255; Fourth and final report of the Down & Connor Church Accommodation Society (1843), 7; Brett, 27; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 109.
Refs: J.B. Leslie, Clogher Clergy and Parishes (1929), 150; illus. in Clergy of Clogher (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), Part 1, 32; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 281.
Nature: Single cell 3-bay church.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 351; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 127.
Nature: Design either by Thomas Elliott or WF with Elliott as contractor. Church consecrated 7 Jun 1842..
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 277; exterior illus. in Clergy of Clogher (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 50; Duncan Scarlett, Dedicated to St Anne (2007), 43; interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 149.
Nature: Designs for new chancel and buttress piers.
Nature: Restoration of interior of church built 1786 and addition of tower, spire and chancel (Leslie, but cf. Rowan). Builder: William Scott.
Refs: J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy & Parishes (1911), 427-8; M. Scott, The Scotts of Lisanelly and Lisnamallard (Glasgow, 1924), I, 42-3; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 167; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 130.
Nature: New church, probably designed by WF or Joseph Welland. Cruciform with W tower (not executed), N & S porches off transepts. Battlemented with decorated bellcote on W gable. Design approved 1841. Dedicated 1843. Opened Oct 1844. Consecrated 3 May 1845.
Refs: Unsigned drawing, inscr. 'Approved 1841' and 'Dedicated 1843', in RCB Library, portfolio 12; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 215-6(illus.).
Nature: Additions including 13-bay, 3-storey range of cells.
Refs: Contract drawings, letters &c.,1841-2 in PRONI D/571/129-179, and accounts for advertisements placed in newspapers in respect of gaol, memorials and letters from WF to Commissioners for enlarging same, 1843-44, FER/4/6/8-20.
Nature: New chapel of ease in parish of Aghabog. Cruciform with 3-stage pinnacled tower'intended as an eye-catcher for vistas from Newbliss House' (Mulligan). Consecrated by Bishop of Clogher, 1 Jul 1841. Built and endowed by Andrew Ker, Esq..
Refs: Christian Examiner 2, no. 8, 1 Aug 1841, 255Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 494-5.
Nature: New church, consecrated 21 Nov 1843; 'low rubble-built cruciform church in the Tudoresque idiom of William Farrell' (Rowan).
Refs: J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy & Parishes (1911), 272; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 428; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 122.
Nature: WF & Son make plan for same.
Nature: New. 62-bay, 3-storey range in institutional Elizabethan style. (Quantities taken by Thomas Turner and Patrick Kerr.) Opened 1853. Contractor: William Hague, Cavan.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 245.
Nature: Attr. to WF suggested by Casey & Rowan.
Nature: Attr. to William Farrell by Rowan. For - Maxwell?.
Nature: By William Farrell for Rev. Francis Gervais. Now gone.
Nature: Lodge identical to WF's gate lodge at Ely Lodge.
Nature: Designs for plain 3-bay house with simple portico for John George. Mulligan points out that design as executed looks more like a Richard Morrison villa, and Dermot Brennan of David Slattery Conservation Architects, says (Oct, 2018) that design strongly resembles that of Thornhill, Cherrygarth Road, Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, on which David Slattery Conservation Architects did a report. John George could be the Dublin barrister of the same name who was also an MP for Co. Wexford.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 53-55; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 97; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 534.
Nature: Proposal for 'house for Hon. George Knox' (?Prehen). 3-bay, 2-storey, Gothic, with label mouldings and ornate string course.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 49-52; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 97.
Nature: Designs by WF for 'House for Ralph Dopping'(?Ernehead). Long, regular, battlemented Gothic house, forming with its outbuildings the best part of an irregular polygon.
Refs: Plan and elevation in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 47,48; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Nature: Designs by WF for Roger Hall.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 43-46; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 38-42; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Nature: WF designs 5-bay house with 3-bay prjecting central porch. For William Henry Magan.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 30-37; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Nature: WF designs 3-storey, 5-bay house with projecting pedimented central bay. For John Staunton Rochfort.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 23-27; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Nature: Designs for 2-storey, 5-bay building, the 3 central bays projecting and topped by balustrade.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 15-18; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Nature: Designs for classical building with projecting pedimented central bay containing kitchen, with hall above it and 2-storey operating theatre above hall.
Refs: Plans and entrance front elevation in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 6-10; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Nature: WF designs additions with very extensive offices, outbuildings, farm buildings and conservatory. For Sir Samuel Hutchinson, Bt.
Refs: Plan and elevation in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 28,29; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.
Refs: Undated plan and elevations of neo-Norman cathedral, signed William Farrell, Architect, and unsigned, undated plan and elevations (in same hand) of Gothic cathedral in collection of William Harvey (a descendant of Farrell's pupil Sandham Symes), 86 Beechwood Drive, Broomhill, Glasgow; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 98.
Nature: Enlargement of house subject of dispute between Archdeacon and WF (as architect to Board of First Fruits) Does this mean that WF was the architect for the enlargements?
Refs: PRONI, Letters from Richard Mant to Lord Downshire and Thomas Parry., 1824-1843, D671/C/188.
Nature: New glebe house 'easily attributable to william Farrell' (Mulligan).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 376.

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