How well do you know Dublin?
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Phibsboro Road?
Well done Cobalt and Frank – Memorial Road it is. If I recall correctly there’s not much in it between that and BTH ‘s suggestion Berkeley Road, but Memorial Road shades it.
Killarney St
That’s a wonderful little portico, isn’t it? This description of it is from a 1997 Dublin Civic Trust ‘Buildings at Risk’ list:
This Doric-porticoed church front is one of the most distinguished examples of Greek revival in Ireland. It was built for a Presbyterian congregation to the design of a Scottish architect, circa 1830, with a small but monumentally-proportioned, four-columned Doric granite portico with extremely correct use of Grecian motifs. The portico is flanked by wings with severe tapering stone doorcases.
The status of the church (at the time) is given as:
The church had become redundant at the beginning of the 20th century, and was used for a number of years as a grain store. It became vacant in the 1980s and was gutted by fire, resulting in the loss of the original roof and the subsequent demolition of the main body of the church behind the entrance wall and portico. Failure to provide new flashings and cappings on the front wall and around the porico is resulting in serious water saturation affecting the stonework.
Thats off Summerhill Parade. Is it called Hill Street? It terminated the street and was most likely originally a church. It seems alot of the parish churches of the north inner city have found new uses.
…if not decent shopfront designers….
That church on Killarney St is a fantastic little building – so austere and perfectly proportioned, it’s most surprising to suddenly happen upon it. Anyone know of its current state – haven’t seen it in about a year now….
Four more pics here. Bit of a mixed bag:
A
B
C
D
(B is not in an obscure city park)
Well spotted Seamus. Is this the only distinctively sloped Georgian street in Dublin aside from North Great George’s St?
@ctesiphon wrote:
C- Hainault House (69-71 St Stephen’s Green South).
Correct sir – though the address was optional 🙂
The Mater is also spot on.
They’ve a lovely new extension built of late on Eccles Street – one of the finest infill buildings to go up in recent times in Dublin I think:
So only the statue B is left – hmmmmm…
Also three others:
E
F
…and a giant dolls house dumped in the middle of the city – but where is it?
G
@Graham Hickey wrote:
Correct sir – though the address was optional 🙂
It’s the offices of the DTO- as a planner it’s my business to know. 😉
E has an air of the Moyne Institute on College Park in Trinity about it, but I can’t remember if the windows are round-headed or not right now.
F could be the little house behind Trinity’s walls on College Green?
G rings a bell- is that its entrance front or its garden front?:)
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