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Restoration, consisting of erection of S transept, raising of floor from 2ft 6ins below street level to 6 ins above it, removal of galleries, new windows throughout, removal of lath and plaster ceiling, erection of triple arches separating nave from transepts, replacement of fron with new one containing 5-ligtht traceries window, new tower, repewing, &c.. Builder: John Butler, Wellington Place. Capitals and corbels carved by Earley of Earley & Powells. Church furniture and organ case by James Digges, clerk of St Stephen's chapel of ease. Brasswork by Curtis & Son.. Cost of whole nearly £7,000 though orinially expected 'not to exceed £3000'). Church re-opened 1 Nov 1867. (Demolished, 1983.)
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Contract drawings, date of contract 8 Jul 1865, in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library - Architectual Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/2684-2692 (last visited, Feb 2017); IAA, PKS B03/28, A03 (Mar 1865, p.60v), L01 (p.773,775-6,786-8,793,797, 888, 943, &c.); RHA 1864, no. 398; DB 6, 1 Mar,1 May 1864, 34,82(illus.); 7, 15 Mar 1865, 82; IB 9, 15 Oct,1 Nov 1867, 277,287; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 6, no. 59 (20 May 1864), 124; B 23, 28 Jan 1865, 70; Irish Times, 30 Oct 1867; 'Annals of Dublin' in Post Office Dublin Directory (1875), 801; H.A. Wheeler & M.J. Craig, The Dublin City Churches of the Church of Ireland (1948), 34
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