Copy print of the rear of St. Mary of the Angels as seen from Bow Street. The main entrance to the adjoining Friary building is seen on the left. The copy black and white print is possibly taken from 'The Capuchin Annual'. An annotation (in the hand of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) reads ‘Capuchin Church from Bow Street’.
Plan by Charles James McCarthy (1858-1947), architect, 12 Westland Row, Dublin (the son of James Joseph McCarthy, architect of St. Mary of the Angels), titled ‘General plan showing proposed Third Order Chapel, Choir and Additions to Capuchin Convent’. Various annotations have been added to the plan. The proposed Third Order Chapel fronted onto Church Street and was designed ‘to accommodate 300 persons’. The plan also contains a note indicating that ‘sixteen cells are provided on upper floors of proposed additions to convent’. The additions (bordered in red ink) also consist of an entrance hall, a large parlour and two reception rooms. See also CA CS/2/6/2/1.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch Plan and elevation by George Coppinger Ashlin & Thomas Aloysius Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, for the new Sacred Heart Chapel designed for Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, Guardian, Church Street. The Sacred Heart Chapel was an aisle-church addition to St. Mary of the Angels. Construction was begun in March 1908 and was completed a year later at a cost of £4,000. The contractors were W. Connolly & Son and plastering work was completed by John Ryan. The design includes a ground floor plan, a side elevation from the friary garden, a longitudinal section, a front elevation, and a cross section.
Lease by William John Russell, Mountjoy Square, to Fr. Daniel O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. David Thomas Ashe OSFC, and Fr. Edmund Dillon OSFC, North King Street, of a parcel of ground and shed ‘formerly known as numbers “21” and “22” but now known as number “21” … situated on the east side of Bow Street … [with] the adjoining Chapel Yard’. The term is specified as fifty-nine years and the annual rent is £24 to be paid in two yearly half payments. With a coloured sketch map showing the premises referred to in the lease. The sketch map was complied by C. Carmody, 20 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin. Scale: 20 feet to an inch.
Photographic print of the Capuchin sale of work possibly in Father Mathew Hall on Church Street in Dublin. Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (1910-1977) and three women are present in the photograph. A manuscript annotation reads ‘Sacred Heart Stall, Capuchin Sale of Work’, 25th November 1944’
Photographic print of the High Altar and Sanctuary of St. Mary of the Angels during Mass. Ink-stamp on reverse reads: ‘Topical Photo News, 71 Dame Street, Dublin’.
Souvenir printed booklet with photographs of the exterior and interior of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The booklet includes photographs of: ‘The High Altar during forty hours’ adoration’. ‘The Interior showing gallery and organ’. ‘The Calvary adjoining Sacred Heart Chapel’. ‘The Interior of the Sacred Heart Chapel’. The booklet includes a typescript insert which reads: ‘Stations of the Cross in Community Choir, Church Street, Dublin, were erected by V.R. Fr. Peter Bowe of Tullaroan, Guardian, December 17th 1900. Note to this effect on back of First Station’.
Photograph of the exterior of St. Mary of the Angels taken from street level and to the right on Church Street. The photograph shows the church before the addition of the Sacred Heart Chapel, built as an aisle church in 1908. Photographer / Studio: Valentine’s Post card company Annotation: The printed title incorrectly identifies the Church as ‘St. Michan’s Church, Dublin’.
