Westport House
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Westport House in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, is a Georgian country house, historically the family seat of the Marquess of Sligo and the Brownes. The house was designed by the architect Richard Cassels with later additions by Thomas Ivory and James Wyatt.
Westport House East Front in 2023
Western elevation from the boating lake, Easter Sunday, 2011
John Browne built the first Westport House and fought for the Jacobite cause, which was defeated.
Southern facade. Easter Saturday, 2011, showing 1778 date in pediment.
James Wyatt
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James Wyatt was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1785 and was its president from 1805 to 1806.
The Large Dining Room at Westport House, County Mayo was designed by Wyatt
Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, designed by Wyatt in the 1790s
The Senior Common Rooms and Senior Library of Oriel College, Oxford, designed by Wyatt in the 1780s