I am working my way through my catalogue of photographs and in many cases repairing or reprocessing them. This series of images date from 30 April 2016.
The Old Church of St. George, commonly called “Little George’s” in Hill Street (formerly Temple Street Lower) Parish of St. Mary, Dublin was built in 1668 by the Eccles family for their workmen and also as a chapel-of-ease to a nearby St. Mary’s Church. However, that St. Mary’s Church was not St. Mary’s Church, Dublin as that church’s foundation stone was laid in 1700, and it was not St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin as that was dissolved in 1539. Therefore St George’s church, Hill Street, may have been a Chapel-of-Ease to St. Michan’s Church in Church Street. The main body of the church, with the exception of the tower, was demolished in 1894.
Following the decision to build a new chapel the congregation moved to a temporary chapel on Whitworth Road 1793 before the new St. George’s Church, Dublin was built on Hardwick Place, (Upper) Temple Street. The Old St. George, St. George’s Chapel, sometimes called Little St. Georges was used as an Episcopal Chapel for a time.
The tower of the church is now classed as a “Protected Structure”.[ The entrance was below an old square steeple or tower, about 40 feet in height. The interior of the tower is small and was adorned with a few monuments. The communion-table was in a recess at the eastern end lit by a large circular-headed window, with a monument to the memory of Lady Galbraith on its south side. In the west over the entrance was a small, badly lit gallery.
The main item of interest along dock road is the Bannatyne Mill building which is described as follows: A most imposing and rare industrial building with a larger than life expression of Victorian industrial architecture, erected to the designs of William Sidney Cox. The builders were McCarthy and Guerin. It was built for Mssrs. Bannatyne. The Bannatyne Mill is technically significant as the building’s frame is made of cast-iron and is encased in cut stone and rubble. There are allocations for lift machinery in the basement and the hoisting machinery is hidden behind the gables. The tower, influenced by the Gothic of northern continental Europe, adds architectural presence over the Docks and is a landmark sight from the northern banks of the River Shannon. The high degree of detailing and the attention paid to the architectural composition of this structure is extraordinary when viewed through the rationalised approach to aesthetics today. This structure, together with the later reinforced concrete silo further east are significant industrial architectural landmarks in the Dock Road area of Limerick City.
There is also a the graving dock to which I had no access. It is described as a well-built dock set within the greater wet dock, and displaying fine stone masonry typical of the mid nineteenth century. Mr. Hawney was the clerk of works. Although now falling into dereliction, this dock along with the pedstal, forms an historical feature on the landscape of the docklands.
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