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New church, modelled on Palladio's church of the Rendentore at Venice. FS laid 1758; finished 1762; '...the church of St Thomas is an exact copy from a design by Palladio, with some omissions, not to the advantage of the composition' (Malton). (Church destroyed during fighting on 22 Jul 1922, see Irish Times, 30 Jun 1925.))
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Robert Pool & John Cash, Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin (1780), 90(illus.); James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated; IB 8, 1 Feb 1866, 30; 64, 29 Jul 1922, 525(illus.); APSD, S, 93; H.A. Wheeler & M.J. Craig, The Dublin City Churches (1948), 36; M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 179; E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 203; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 125.
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