1780 – St. Catherine’s Church, Meath St., Dublin
“The chapel belonging to the parish formerly stood in Bridge foot street at the north side of Thomas street, but it being dilapidated,
“The chapel belonging to the parish formerly stood in Bridge foot street at the north side of Thomas street, but it being dilapidated,
In 1784 William Smyth, a Dublin merchant, founded the Bethesda Chapel in Dorset Street in connection with a female orphanage and,
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Originally constructed by the Methodists in 1800 and initially known as ‘Wesley Chapel’.
More expansive scheme than constructed to replace the church destroyed in a fire in 1860.
Not completed as designed, the tower was redesigned and the spire unbuilt. The adjacent presbytery was also unbuilt.
In 1881, Arthur Edward Guinness, Lord Ardilaun proposed to construct a new church, on a site he would provide at the village end of his St.
Sadly uncompleted, the tower being capped at the second stage, below the apex of the roof of the nave.
With a dome of 52 feet in diameter at the intersection of the nave and sanctuary with the transepts,
Beautiful interior space to this mid 1960s church designed by Andrew Devane. The uninterrupted clerestory windows are worth noting as the chapel roof is supported by the interior columns.
Built in 1967 as one of a new wave of large Catholic churches in the Dublin suburbs,