1860 – Molyneux Church and Asylum for Blind Females, Leeson Park, Dublin
Winning entry for an architectural competition held in late 1859 to design asylum and adjoining Christ Church.
Winning entry for an architectural competition held in late 1859 to design asylum and adjoining Christ Church.
The first Dublin commission of Belfast firm Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon, this little Italian Romanesque church replaced an earlier one of 1826.
Designed as a Church of Ireland, and originally opened for public worship on 23 May 1860;
Architect to the Board of First Fruits and subsequently to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Joseph Welland died a couple of months before St.
Aan impressive church built in the ‘Modern English style’ to designs prepared by Joseph Welland on a site originally donated by Stephen Ram of nearby Ramsfort House.
A former Church of Ireland, the spire was truncated in 1948 due to safety issues, and the church later desconsecrated in the 1960s.
“This church, which has been for some time completed, was this day opened for Divine service.
Erected to the design by George Edmund Street both as a parish Church of Ireland and later as a memorial to Solomon Augustus Richards (1828-74) and Sophia Mordaunt Richards (1829-99) of nearby Ardamine House.
Designed in 1860 but not constructed until 1861-62, after the death of Benjamin Woodward in 1861,
In the 1860s the growth of the Prebsyterian congregation and a substantial increase in rent on the Mary’s Abbey property made it desirable for the congregation to seek new premises.
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