Conveyance of George Walsh to Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and other Capuchin friars, Church Street, of 25 Bow Street, in consideration of the sum of £50. The deed has a small sketch of the properties referred to in lease. Two copies are extant in the file.
An account book titled ‘Book of money received or expended in the building of the new church of St. Mary of the Angels’. The book comprises a record of monies collected and expenditure in financing of the construction of the church. Most of the expenditure is recorded as lodgements on account in the Hibernian Bank Ltd. Several annotations are made in the account book. On 7 June it was recorded: ‘N.B. Very Rev. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly and Fr. Joseph Martin Harkins raised in the National [Bank] the sum of £300 for building purposes. This loan was advanced at three months’ payment – in full. A condition I regard as very much disparaging to our credit. Indeed, if I were allowed to act I would close the account in the National’.
Subscription book containing a list of subscribers and guarantors for the fund for paying off the debt incurred on the construction of St. Mary of the Angels. Entries are listed under name, address and amount subscribed. Some entries are listed under the title of: ‘persons visited by Fr. Paul [Neary] and companion for meeting on 27 Feb. 1899’. A newspaper cutting from the 'Freeman’s Journal' [c.8 Mar. 1897] is pasted onto the reverse of the first leaf. The cutting contains a list of contributors towards the aforementioned fund. A monthly mass register record is extant on five pages at the end of the volume. Several manuscript and newspaper cutting inserts have been removed from the volume and placed in CA CS/2/3/7-8.
Rental of property held by the Capuchin friars, Church Street, Dublin. The rental contains entries under the headings of denomination; title of owners; head rent; gale days; tenants; tenure of tenants; yearly rents. With two later copies. The rental was compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great George’s Street. The properties listed in the rental are: 47-50 North King Street Premises at the rear of 47 & 48 North King Street Premises on North Brunswick Street 142 Church Street 22 & 23 Bow Street The head rents totalled £107 18s 6½d.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Design and plan for fire-escape stairs at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, by Walter MacFarlane & Co., Saracen Foundry, Glasgow. The file includes side and end elevations. The overall width of the fire escape was 2 feet 6 inches. The project file number was noted as EE 916.
Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet Plans, elevations and sections of the Capuchin Friary and St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street. The file includes: • First floor plan • Second floor plan • Roof plan • Sections of the Friary and Church from several perspectives See also section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.
Correspondence of William Connolly & Son, contractors, 37-39 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin, regarding the repair and decoration of the altar and other furnishings (including confessional boxes) at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Correspondents include William Connolly, Ashlin & Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, and Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street. On 21 Jan. 1908 William Connolly proposed to Ashlin & Coleman that he would ‘execute the works in the manufacture and erection of screens at St. Mary of the Angels … in accordance with your designs … for the sum of £575. The work to be executed in the best, seasoned Austrian oak, wax polished, and in the highest class of workmanship’. Other work included the building of a new stone porch to the south side of the Church. With bill of costs for said works. See also CA CS/2/6/1/1.
Correspondence with G.C. Pillinger & Co., 43 Grand Parade, Cork, regarding the inspection and maintenance of the boiler and heating systems at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. With promotional literature from the company.
Correspondence mainly from John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, regarding the supply of furniture for the Third Order Council Rooms at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The Sisters’ room was designed to seat fifty individuals. Includes sketches, elevations and plan of the Sisters’ and Brothers’ Council Rooms. Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot.
Tender for the installation of an oil-firing boiler at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The file includes tenders from H.A. O’Neil Ltd., 162 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin and Maguire & Gatchell Ltd., Dawson Street, Dublin.