Frederick Darley was an Irish architect who designed and built a number of buildings in
Dublin
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, including in
Trinity College Dublin. He was also responsible for a number of civic and church buildings across Ireland. He was a son of the builder and architect
Frederick Darley Senior, and his father served as
Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1808–1809. His mother was Elizabeth (Guinness) Darley, eldest daughter of
Arthur Guinness
Arthur Guinness ( 172523 January 1803) was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness beer, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759.
Born in Celbridge, County Kildare around 1725, Guinness ...
of Beaumont, Drumcondra.
In 1833–1843, Darley was the Ecclesiastical Commissioners architect for the
Church of Ireland
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Diocese of Dublin.
Frederick Darley junior was a pupil of
Francis Johnston. Darley himself was succeeded by his pupil
John McCurdy as architect to Trinity College Dublin.
Darley was a founding member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) and lived on Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin.
Buildings designed by Darley
* New Square, Trinity College Dublin.
* Carpenter's Asylum, 35
Seán McDermott Street
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Located in the north inner city, it runs west-east as an extension of Cathal ...
(formerly Gloucester Street) (1832)
*
Merchants' Hall
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*
King's Inns
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Library,
Henrietta Street, Dublin
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*
Trinity Church, Dublin, which became ''The Exchange'', on Gardiner Street.
*
Bethesda Chapel, Dublin
The Bethesda Chapel, Dublin, was an Episcopal Church of Ireland, church on Granby Row and Dorset Street, Dublin.
History Chapel
The Bethesda chapel was founded by Dublin merchant William Smyth, nephew of the Bishop of the same name, in 1784. It ...
, former
Church of Ireland
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church on Dorset Street (1840 rebuild) (demolished).
*
Royal Irish Institution
The Royal Irish Institution (RII) was a Dublin-based art institution established in 1813 to encourage the displaying of fine arts in Ireland.
One object was to start an academy in Dublin resulting in the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1823 and a g ...
,
College Street, Dublin
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(demolished 1866)
References
1798 births
1872 deaths
Architects from Dublin (city)
19th-century Irish architects
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