Daniel Robertson (died 1849) was a British architect.

Career

Robertson may have worked under

Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his o ...

in London, England; later he worked at

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and

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. Robertson was an early exponent of the

Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

Revival, designing both

St Clement's Church, Oxford St Clement's Church is an evangelical Church of England parish church situated just to the east of central Oxford, England. History The present church dates from the 1820s, but replaced a much older building, which was demolished in 1829. Th ...

Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 291 and St Swithun's parish church in Kennington, BerkshirePevsner, 1966, page 259 (now in

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

) in this style as early as 1828. Robertson then moved to

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, where he had considerable success and carried out commissions for notable country houses particularly in the southeastern part of the country. His work was in both the Neoclassical style and then in the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style of the 1830s with which he may be most associated.

Works

Robertson's buildings include: *

Oriel College, Oxford Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, w ...

: west range of St. Mary's Quad, 1826 *

Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorot ...

: fireplace in hall, 1826 *

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, Oxford, 1826-30Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 274 *St. Clement's parish church, Oxford, 1828 *St. Swithun's parish church, Kennington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1828 *Ballinkeele House (home of the Maher family) *Bloomfield Castle in

County Wexford County Wexford ( ga, Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was based on the historic Gaelic territory of Hy Kinsella (''Uí Ce ...

*Carrigglas Manor in

County Longford County Longford ( gle, Contae an Longfoirt) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Longford. Longford County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county was 46 ...

(owned by Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Chief Justice of Ireland from 1852 to 1866)) * Castleboro House (home of the Carew family) * Dunleckney Manor in

County Carlow County Carlow ( ; ga, Contae Cheatharlach) is a county located in the South-East Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. Carlow is the second smallest and the third least populous of Ireland's 32 traditional counties. Carlow C ...

(seat of the Bagenal and Newton families) * Lisnavagh House, in

(seat of the McClintock Bunbury family, Baron Rathdonnell) * Johnstown Castle in Co. Wexford (home of the Grogan & Morgan families) *Wilton Castle in Co. Wexford (home of the Alcock family) * Wells House, Wells, Gorey Co. Wexford. In addition to numerous major country house commissions, Robertson was also particularly noted as a landscape designer. His greatest accomplishments in that field were at Powerscourt and Killruddery, both of which capture long-distance views of the Great Sugar Loaf mountain in

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ga, Contae Chill Mhantáin ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is bordered ...

. Wells House also has plans of the gardens designed there by Daniel Robertson.

References

Sources and further reading

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External links

Documentation of some of Robertson's work

Architects who worked in Carlow
Year of birth missing 1849 deaths Architects from London English ecclesiastical architects {{UK-architect-stub