page_title: St. Thomas's Church (old), Dublin
section_title: The church
hierarchical_section_title: St. Thomas's Church (old), Dublin / The church
caption_attribution_description: English: Our first visit to the Hogan-Wilson for this year, and an intriguing image of cars, carts and carriages across the entrance to a street as some form of barricade. The name on the premises behind may assist in a location but what was going on and why the blockage? (FYI - It was great to see the response to yesterdays image with that wonderful poster proving its worth more than 100 years after it was posted!) And we had fantastic inputs on today's image also. There is clear consensus that Hogan took this image from the corner of Upper Gloucester Street (now Sean McDermott Street), looking south and down Marlborough Street. Probably in late June or very early July 1922. The business pictured behind the barricade, Farrell's Undertakers, was at 66 Marlborough Street. Immediately to the right, behind the wall and gate, was St Thomas' Church. This barricade was placed by anti-treaty irregulars during the 'Battle of Dublin' of the Irish Civil War. The church and much of the surrounding area was burned in early July 1922. In the decade after the civil war, the ruins were demolished, and the streets relaid to a sligtly different pattern. (The street is no longer the 'T-junction' we see here, and runs straight 'through' the wall and old church graveyard). A new St Thomas' Church was however built very closeby in 1930 - over what was the parish hall on Findlater Place.... Corner of present day Marlborough Street and Cathal Brugha Street (Formerly Gloucester Street)---- Photographer: W. D. Hogan Collection: Hogan Wilson Collection Date: Catalogue range c.1922. Likely June/July 1922 NLI Ref.: HOG144 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
context_page_description: St. Thomas's Church in Marlborough Street, Dublin was a Church of Ireland parish church. It was replaced by a new church, St. Thomas's Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, in 1930.
context_section_description: St Thomas's Church was built in 1758-62 in Marlborough Street when the parish of St. Mary's was divided to cope with increased population. The architect of this church (and of St. Catherine's in Thomas Street) was Mr. John Smith. The design is modelled on Palladio's Il Redentore in Venice. £2000 was granted by Parliament for the building of the church, and later another thousand pounds to finish it off. At the time it was considered to have the most beautiful facade of any church in the city.
  The Church was gutted by fire which destroyed most of Upper Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) in the Civil War in July 1922. Although the main structure survived the opportunity was taken to extend Gloucester Street (now Sean Mac Dermott Street) up to O'Connell Street.
  In 1866 Rev. John Grainger from St. Thomas's, moved to the found the new Church in Sherrif St., East Wall St. Barnabas' Church, Dublin.
  The new St Thomas's Church was erected in Cathal Brugha Street in 1930.
caption: A barricade outside St. Thomas' Church gate just before it was destroyed by fire in 1922
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