@Pot Noodle wrote:
Anyone got a picture of the building that used to be on Molesworth St where the european parliment is now
i think was a school or something
St. Ann’s School and Molesworth Hall.
There is a particularly good piece about it in Fredrick O’Dwyer’s ‘Lost Dublin’ (1981). This is a copy of his pic of the Deane & Woodword hall, which was a particularly striking Ruskinian polychromatic composition in banded calp, granite and brick, it says here.
As with the Victorian re-fronting of St. Ann’s Church, around the corner on Dawson Street, I have mixed feelings about Molesworth Hall. It was clearly a beautiful piece of architecture, but it, and the adjoining school, did replace a terrace of modest houses that were, in all probability, Dutch Billys that, together with the original design of St. Ann’s Church, must have constituted a grouping that got as close to baroque as Dublin ever achieved.