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Buildings, Repair and Maintenance

This sub-series includes records relating to the construction and repair history of buildings owned by the Capuchin community in Kilkenny City. The sub-series includes specifications for buildings, correspondence, bills of cost for construction, property upkeep and improvement, and contracts for repair and servicing of machinery

List of donations to Tertiary Chapel Building Fund

List of donations to the Tertiary Chapel Building Fund, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The volume relates to donations made almost solely by women (including many members of the Third Order of St. Francis). Entries are initially listed as an index under the name of the subscriber, her address, and the amount of the donation. The remainder of the volume is comprised of an alphabetical list of monthly subscribers. Additional notes are occasionally added to the entries such as ‘Miss Bergin left for Australia in March 1896’. Gilt title to front cover reads ‘Ledger’.

Building works’ account book

Account book of ‘monies received towards the new [Friary] building during the year 1895’. An index is given on the title page by Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC, guardian and definitor: I. List of guarantors on three-year system. II. List of special benefactors with amounts subscribed. III. Amounts received from Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. IV. Expenditure account on new building (mostly with Stephen Lalor [var. Lawlor], builder and contractor).

Expenditure accounts for new Friary building

Expenditure accounts in connection with the building of a new Friary on Walkin Street. The accounts provide details of expenditure including Stephen Lalor, builder (£1,337 12s 7d); Samuel Hynes, architect (£100); alms house purchase (£315 2s 0d). A noted is appended to the accounts: ‘The above items were paid by cheque from bank. Some other items in connection with demolition of old house, repairing of new Alms House &c come under the ordinary expenses of the house’. Includes statement of ‘total amount of contract for addition &c to church and convent, Kilkenny, £3,430 13s 3d’. Endorsed on verso ‘statement of accounts given by Fr. Fidelis on the state of his house’.

Memorandum of agreement for Friary building

Memorandum of agreement of Stephen Lalor [var. Lawlor], builder, Walkin Street, Kilkenny with Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC, guardian, Capuchin Friary. The agreement (compiled by M.M. Murphy, solicitor) stipulates that Lalor will complete the building works on the Capuchin Friary and Chapel in Kilkenny according to the specifications set down by Samuel Francis Hynes, architect. The total cost of the works and labour is £3,430 13s 4d.

Letters from Thomas Ryan & Sons, sculptors

Letters from Thomas Ryan & Sons, ecclesiastical sculptors, 30 & 32 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC, guardian, regarding the installation of statues and additions to the marble altar and pulpit at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.

Specification and contract for installation of church organ

Specification and contract of agreement with Alex Chestnutt & Company, organ builders, Manor Street, Waterford, for the installation of a ‘two-manual organ’ at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The agreement (dated 28 July 1914) with Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, notes that the consideration money for the installation of the organ was £580. The file includes letters from Alex Chestnutt to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC in which the former notes that ‘owing to this unfortunate war there is very little doing in the organ building trade … and having many bills to meet now at the end of the year I have no other course to take but to ask if you will kindly oblige me with another £100’. (30 Dec. 1914). With letters to Fr. Pius Duggan OSFC, guardian, regarding an estimate from the cleaning and overhaul of the organ (8 Feb. 1930).

Correspondence regarding extension to the sacristy

Correspondence between John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, Messrs W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, and Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OSFC regarding the specification for work on the extension to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The enclosed plans and alternative ‘schemes’ for the extension to the sacristy are at CA KK/2/3/20.

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