1973 – Molyneux House, Bride Street, Dublin

Formerly the Molyneux Chapel, previously in use as a recreation hall for the nearby Jacobs biscuit factory. In religious use as part of the asylum for blind females, Molyneux House, which was demolished in 1943. After Stephenson Gibney sold their offices, a series of Victorian villas to the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, for whom they built their clubhouse in 1973, they purchased the chapel for £60,000. Keeping the body of the church, they added a cluster of vertical brick volumes to Bride Street. The blocks had flush glazing with chamfered corners which create shadows and drama across the façade. Ironically, the rear church portion has now been demolished and Stephenson Gibney’s façade is just that, a portion of a façade to a new larger development.

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