Download James Gibbs in Ireland: Newbridge His Villa for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin epub

Everything you need to know about Dublin from our travel experts. One of the greatest stately homes of Ireland, Newbridge House, in Donabate, was built between 1740 and 1760 for Charles Cobbe, archbishop of Dublin.

Everything you need to know about Dublin from our travel experts. A showpiece in the Georgian and Regency styles, the house is less a museum than a home because the Cobbe family still resides here, part of a novel scheme the municipal government allowed when they took over the house in 1985. The sober exterior and even more sober entrance hall-all Portland stone and Welsh slate-don't prepare you for the splendor of Newbridge's Red Drawing Room, perhaps Ireland's most sumptuous 18th-century salon.

Newbridge House Newbridge is a Georgian Villa built to the design of James Gibbs in 1747 for the then Archbishop of Dublin, Charles Cobbe (1686-1765). It remained home to the Cobbe Family until 1985 when it was purchased by Dublin County Council now Fingal County County. Newbridge is the only house in the Republic of Ireland where the original family and an outside body (Fingal County Council) work alongside each other to maintain the property and its contents. Newbridge is renowned across the world for its unique collection of Irish furniture, the Cobbe Collection of Old Master portraits and.

James Gibbs in Ireland. by Alec Cobbe, Terry Friedman. Coauthors & Alternates. ISBN 9780953820313 (978-538203-1-3) Softcover, Cobbe Collection Trust, 2005. Learn More at LibraryThing. Alec Cobbe at LibraryThing.

Designed by architect James Gibbs, the estate was originally built for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin

Designed by architect James Gibbs, the estate was originally built for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin. The Cobbe descendents still live there as the result of a unique agreement with the local authority (Fingal County Council) when it acquired the house in 1985. Newbridge House was designed and built in Georgian and Regency styles. The Newbridge's Red Drawing Room is considered one of the finest Georgian interiors in Ireland, and is so well maintained that it appears much as it did 150 years ago. Inside is a museum filled with curiosities and decorated with ornate Robert West plasterwork.

Charles was a member of the prominent Cobbe family, and built the ancestral home Newbridge Estate outside Dublin between 1747 and 1752. Ecclesiastical career. Cobbe arrived in Ireland in August 1717 as chaplain to Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton. By January the following year he was appointed Dean of Ardagh. In 1720 he was appointed to the Bishopric of Killala.

Thomas Cobbe was the 2nd son of Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin, who was Bishop of Kildare when he commissioned George Semple to design 'a handsome yet sober villa for him on his Newbridge demesne, at Donabate, north of Dublin.

Alec Cobbe introduces his new book about his reassembling of the Cobbe ‘peacock’ service, commissioned .

Alec Cobbe introduces his new book about his reassembling of the Cobbe ‘peacock’ service, commissioned from the newly founded Worcester factory by his ancestor Lady Betty Cobbe in the mid-18th century, and sold from his family home Newbridge House in 1920. Newbridge House lies some miles outside Dublin and was built in the late 1740s to the designs of James Gibbs for my forebear Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin. In 1755 he presented the house and estate to his son Thomas, who had just married the elegant Lady Betty Beresford, daughter of the 1st Earl of Tyrone.

Book your Newbridge House tickets online. It was originally completed in 1747, for the Archbishop of Dublin, Charles Cobbe (1686-1765). Not only is Newbridge a Georgian Villa - it's also the second largest park in the Dublin area (365 acres). The working farm, surrounding fields and adventure playground make it a great day trip from Dublin proper.