Photographic prints (colour) of the demolition of the old Capuchin Friary building on Church Street. The file contains two soft-bound albums (22 cm x 17.5 cm) containing fifteen and twenty-four colour prints of various views of the old friary building, the process of demolition and the construction of the new Friary building on the said site. With 106 loose prints showing various stages of the construction work. The photographs were taken by Fr. Christopher Twomey OFM Cap.
Letter from Ciaran Dunne, Dublin Corporation, to Fr. Seán Donohoe OFM Cap. re the proposed addition of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, to the Record of Protected Structures in Dublin. The letter encloses a short history of St. Mary of the Angels and a copy notice listing all of the proposed additions to the Record of Protected Structures in the Dublin City Development Plan (3 Jan. 2002). The particulars regarding St. Mary of the Angels read: ‘Today’s church was designed by J.J. McCarthy in what was called decorated gothic. … It was begun in 1868 but not completed until 1881’.
This section includes various books and journals of account (for example, ledgers of accounts payable, accounts received and cash receipts). The records detail annual audits and routine household and community expenditure. The series also includes records relating to tax returns and bills (property and municipal rates), and insurance policies covering fire, engineering, and public liabilities. Accounts of monies derived from street collections and annual quests are also included in this section.
Day account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The volume contains entries for routine household expenses incurred by members of the community. The title page is annotated and reads: ‘Day book, 4 Feb. 1893, Fr. Francis Hayes OSFC, guardian’. Some of the entries are endorsed ‘transferred to ledger’. Many of the entries are also signed by the guardian. The next volume in this sequence is at CA CS/3/1/7.
A Capuchin chapel has stood on Church Street from at least 1720. The present-day Church of St. Mary of the Angels was designed James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) in a decorated Gothic style. McCarthy was also responsible for St. Saviour’s Dominican Church on Dominick Street in Dublin (also constructed in the fourteenth-century Gothic style), Mount Argus Church in Dublin, Maynooth College Chapel, and parish churches in Celbridge and Kilcock in County Kildare. The foundation stone for St. Mary of the Angels was laid by the Most Rev. Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, on 12 June 1868. The sermon for the occasion was preached by the celebrated Dominican preacher, Fr. T.A. Burke OP (1830-1883). The building was constructed under the supervision of the architect and was completed in 1881. The builders were Hammond of Drogheda. Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (1831-1894) was responsible for the raising of funds for the church’s construction and adornment. Two side-altars, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to St. Francis, were installed in 1876. They were the work of Farrell and Sons of North Gloucester Street Lower (now Seán McDermott Street). Their most famous works in Dublin are the monuments to Archbishop John Troy and Cardinal Cullen in the Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street, and the statues of Sir John Grey and William Smith O’Brien on O’Connell Street. This section includes records relating to the construction and maintenance of the Sacred Heart Chapel which was built as an aisle church in 1908-9. This chapel was later enclosed and converted into a large sacristy.
List of head rents paid by Capuchin friars, Church Street. The list reads: John Jameson £75 0s 0d John Jameson £13 10s 0d Mrs. K. Pratt and others £25 5 2d Congleton Estate £30 0s 0d Falls Estate £3 0s 0d Cornwall Brady £10 0s 0d More O’Ferrall £51 8s 0d Rent £208 8 0d Rates £101 15 0d With cover endorsed ‘landlords – names of etc’. See also section 3.5 below on Ground Rents.
This section contains a large collection of mostly lease maps relating to properties held or associated with the Capuchin friars of Church Street, Dublin.
Scale: 5 feet to 1 statue mile Ordnance Survey map of Dublin, sheet 13, showing parts of St. Michan’s, St. Paul’s, Grangegorman, St. Audeon’s parishes and parts of Arran Quay, Inns Quay and Usher’s Quay. The map shows the ‘Capuchin Franciscan, RC Chapel’ on Church Street (constructed in 1796), the Bow Street Distillery, and the area surrounding Smithfield Market.
Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch Plan of 141 Church Street drawn by John L. Robinson C.E., architect, 198 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. The plot is bordered to the south by the chapel yard, and Capuchin Church, to the west by Bow Street. and to the east by Church Street. The frontage onto Church Street measures 65 feet. A portion of the premises is colour-washed and is described as the ‘Capuchin Presbytery’.
Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch Plan of numbered premises on Mary’s Lane bordered to the west by Church Street and to the east by George’s Hill. The premises are numbered 13-27 and 41-56 and are intersected by Beresford Street and Greek Street. The plot numbered 43½ is described as an ‘old vegetable market’.
