Survey Data
Reg No
50010874
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Previous Name
The Children's Hospital originally Saint Joseph's Hospital
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1870 - 1900
Coordinates
315784, 235456
Date Recorded
20/09/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Attached seven-bay two-storey Gothic Revival chapel, built c.1890, to rear of No. 14 Temple Street. Steeply pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack having granite coping and moulded cast-iron guttering on moulded yellow brick eaves course. Granite kneeler stones with gable to gables with north gable surmounted by red brick and granite ashlar bellcote and containing lancet shaped bell aperture and cast-iron bell. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with moulded yellow brick sill course to first floor windows, projecting red brick sill course to ground floor and rendered plinth course below. Gauged brick window openings, pointed-headed to first floor, segmental-headed to ground floor with chamfered granite surround and leaded glazing to first floor (chapel) windows, replacement one-over-one-pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor with cast-iron grilles. Interior of chapel comprises single-cell room with plastered walls and ceiling with compartmented raised eaves. Chancel arch with gilt moulding and canted apsidal chancel having marble altar furniture and radial leaded roof light. Small timber panelled gallery to west end supported on timber beam with carved timber brackets and quatrefoil pierced panels. Elaborate stained-glass windows to north marked 'J. Clarke. 33 Nth. Frederic St. Dublin.
Appraisal
This Victorian chapel has been largely hemmed in by surrounding buildings with only a single nave elevation exposed to Saint Anthony's Place. The interior is a good example, however, of a late nineteenth-century chapel on a modest scale and contains some good stained glass by the J. Clarke Studio. The chapel forms part of the collection of buildings that make up the Temple Street Children's University Hospital.