Frederick Villiers Clarendon (c.1820 – 17 October 1904) was an

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noted for his design work on a number of large public buildings in

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, including the

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and

Arbour Hill Prison Arbour Hill Prison () is a prison located in the Arbour Hill area near Heuston Station in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. The prison is the national centre for male sex offenders. Adjacent to the prison are the Church of the Sacred Heart, the ...

Life

Frederick Clarendon was born in Dublin around 1820 and received a Bachelor of Arts at

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in 1839. Directly after graduation he was employed by the

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, where he would remain until his retirement in 1887. Clarendon died in

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, Dublin in 1904.

Works

Clarendon's earliest major works focussed on Dublin's prison system. Arbour Hill Prison was redesigned in 1845 by Sir.

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with Clarendon acting as executive architect, and Clarendon was also co-designer of the "Criminal Lunatic Asylum" in Dundrum two years later. Clarendon oversaw the renovation and extension of the

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's premises on

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between 1852 and 1854, as their existing

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location had become overcrowded. Clarendon's most remembered work is Ireland's

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adjacent to

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, known as the "Dead Zoo". The

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had been obliged to use a public architect in order to obtain treasury funding, and the building was taken over by the State in 1877. Today the Museum forms part of the

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. Clarendon provided his services free of charge to design the Mariners Hall,

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in 1867. This then served as a

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Meeting House for over thirty years, services being conducted through the medium of

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, the language of the immigrant seasonal fishermen of the village.

Arms

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarendon, Frederick Irish architects 1820 births 1904 deaths

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