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Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch
Copy extract from the Ordnance Survey (1838) showing the Capuchin Chapel on Church Street bordered to north by Bedford Avenue (later Nicholas Avenue), to the south by May Lane, to the east by Bow Street and to the west by Church Street. An extract from a later Ordnance Survey map, copied in 1909, shows St. Mary of the Angels and the boundaries of Father Mathew Temperance Hall (constructed in 1890). One of the maps is annotated on the reverse ‘for Fr. Angelus Healy’.

Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch
Map of a plot of ground to be acquired for the Mary’s Lane Area Improvement Scheme by Dublin Corporation. The acquisition is to be enacted under the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland), Acts, 1890-1921. The plot to be purchased is demarcated by a red border and is bounded to the east by Greek Street, to the west by Church Street, to the north by Mary’s Lane, and to the south by a portion of the Bridewell. The plot includes the tenements and premises located at nos. 27-38 Church Street. The southern portion of the plot is occupied by a copper works. A large portion of the frontage onto Greek Street is described as ruins. The map is given ‘Index no. 583’.

Architectural plans (in ink) by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of the proposed extension and new library at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The plan shows west-facing and east-facing elevations and several sections. Two plans with varying elevation. One plan is coloured in ink with coloured washes. See also CA CS/2/6/1/5.

Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot
Ground floor plan of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. The project file number is noted as 251: drawing number 11. See section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.

Correspondence relating to estimates for the routine repair of boilers, roofing alterations to the Sacred Heart Chapel and other building works at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The file includes correspondence from Maguire and Gatchell Ltd., engineers, contractors & merchants, 7-15 Dawson Street, Dublin; Phoenix Sheet Metal Works, 8 Blessington Street, Dublin; E. Moneley, builder and contractor, 68 Blessington Street, Dublin; James J. Nolan, slater and general contactor, 27 Manor Street, Dublin.

Correspondence, estimates, bills of costs and certificates of account concerning various building and improvement projects at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. Works included plastering the corridors in the Friary, improvements to the boilers and heating systems, new lavatories and basins, the installation of a new shrine, and alterations to candlesticks on the Church altar. Correspondents included John Hughes, builder and contractor, 26a Mt. Eden Road, Donnybrook, A.W. Lyons & Son Ltd., stained glass studios, 20 Westland Row, John L. Robinson, architect, 8 Merrion Square, Maguire & Gatchell Ltd., engineers, contractors and merchants, Dawson Street and C.W. Harrison & Sons, architectural and monumental sculptors, 178 Pearse Street. The file includes a letter from John L. Robinson (8 July 1943) referring to the difficulties in erecting the new shrine as ‘most of the garden is made up of ground with old cellars underneath … and in one corner of the building we came upon an old well over which it was necessary to place a substantial reinforced concrete slab’. Other correspondents include Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. and Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap., guardians of the Church Street community.

Letter from R.E. Meates & Son Ltd. to Fr. Leonard Coughlan OFM Cap., guaranteeing the recently installed parts in the Church organ for a period of ten years.

Condition Report and Survey Drawings by William A. Maguire & Associates, architects, 34 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. The report was prepared in preparation for major renovation work on St. Mary of the Angels which got underway in the mid-1970s. The introduction to the report affirmed that the ‘ultimate objective of the exercise is the adaptation of St. Mary of the Angels to conform with current Liturgical principle and to achieve this … a comprehensive survey of the existing building has now been carried out and accurate scale plans prepared’. The architect’s report also noted that the original plans of the Church were no longer available. The report is divided into seven sections:
I. Introduction: History and Development
II. Walls and Plastering
III. Floors
IV. Roofs
V. Gutters and Downpipes
VI. Water tanks, Heating, Hot Water Services, Electrical
VII. Re-Planning and Summary
The summary concluded that the Friary and adjoining Church were ‘generally in good structural condition’ but that a considerable amount of money would need to be expended to bring the buildings up to modern standards and requirements. ‘The high cost of repair and improvement’, the report concluded, emanated, ‘from the uneconomic planning of the Friary and the height of the Church’.