Statement on the houses and premises on North King Street belonging to Capuchin friars of Church Street, Dublin. The statement lists the principal lessors of the properties and the yearly rent paid. The premises referred are nos. 47-50 North King Street. The tenants include William Smith (no. 47), Patrick Macken (no. 48) and Bridget Maher (no. 50). It affirms the Capuchins ‘have within the last 10 years erected a Presbytery on part of the said premises on which they expended upwards of £700’. The statement also notes that the Capuchins hold ‘all the above premises from the 1st day of July 1862 (for which they paid a fine of £300), for 9,000 years at the yearly rent in margin and a chief rent of 18s 5½d to the Corporation of Dublin if demanded’. A pencilled addition to the text indicates that a lease was given to the aforementioned Patrick Macken dated 24 Feb. 1874. (See CA CS/2/2/4/25).
Statement of title of Frances MacDonnell to nos. 47 and 48 on North King Street, Dublin, pursuant to a lease dated 22 Apr. 1794 (See CA CS/2/2/4/1). The statement notes that Frances MacDonnell has ‘continued in possession and receipt of the rents ever since and on the 5th March 1861 purchased the interest of the lessors in the lease of 1794 then vested in the Right Honourable [Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd] Earl of Portarlington’. With a draft conveyance by Henry John Reuben, 3rd Earl of Portarlington, of a freehold interest in nos. 47-50 North King Street. c.1861. The draft conveyance recites that Anne Boyd (by a will dated 12 Mar. 1834) devised all her freehold interest in nos. 47-50 North King Street to the use of the Honourable Eliza Dawson-Damer, the mother of the 3rd Earl of Portarlington. The 3rd Earl agrees to convey the said premises to Frances MacDonnell in consideration of the sum of £705.
Statement of special account signed by Fr. Mark McDonnell OSFC, guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The statement refers to monies given by the Church Street community to the Provincial fund; to Rochestown; and towards repayment on the ‘American loan’; and to monies received from ‘street collections since Chapter to the end of March’. An annotation in Fr. Mark’s hand reads: ‘Debt in bank at the Visitation, Apr. 1922, £2,330 5s 3d’.
Statement of purchase money paid (by Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC and others) in respect of properties on Bow Street and Brown Street referred to in the original leases of 20 April 1842 and 11 May 1843.
Statement of ground rents payable by the Capuchin friars of Church Street. The entries are listed under the name of the estate; agents to which monies are payable; total annual rent; tax deductions; amount payable. The total amount payable was noted as £110 14s 8d.
Statement of accounts and bill of variations forwarded by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, relating to survey work carried out by Francis Shorthall, Chartered Quantity Surveyor, 10 Leinster Street, Dublin. The bills refer to the contract for the new library and extension at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street.
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’.
Photograph of the decorated altar of St. Anthony’s Shine, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of one of the prints reads ‘St. Anthony’s Shrine, Church St., now demolished’.
Photographic print of St. Anne’s Shrine in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
Specification, possibly by Ashlin & Coleman, architects, for alterations to the doorway of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The specification outlines the processes, methods, and materials to be employed in the re-construction of the porch and of other alterations to the windows, staircase, and galleries of the church. The specification is incomplete. See also CA CS/2/5/17.
