This is a stunning building I’ve passed maybe a hundred times in the last year, but have only now stopped to admire. 30 Anglesea Street is home to the Children’s Research Centre of Trinity College Dublin, and the building is very striking. The front of the building notes that it was rebuilt in the year 1895.
Sean Murphy has written of the origins of the name ‘Anglesea Street’ in his excellent history of the Temple Bar area, noting that:
Anglesea Street commemorates another prominent resident of the area, Arthur Annesley, created Earl of Anglesea in 1661. This Earl was great-grandfather of James Annesley, the principal figure in the famous Anglesea peerage case who died in 1760. Notable residents of Anglesea Street included the architect Thomas Cooley, who died at his house there in 1784, and Richard Edward Mercier, publisher of Anthologia Hibernica and other works. The Irish Stock Exchange has been located in Anglesea Street since 1878.
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Noticed this building myself only in recent times. Stunning.
Keep up the good work on documenting my city. Great stuff.
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Did Collins and his men use this building as an office ?
It may have been the work of Laurence A. McDonnell. He was certainly responsible for restoration work on his cousin Laurence A. Waldron’ offices facing Dublin Stock Exchange just down the street in a similarly fanciful Queen Anne Revival pastiche complete with baroque scrolls, miniature herms and inscribed cartouche dated 1898. The red brick park-keeper’s lodge at the S.W. gate of St. Stephen’s Green endeared him to the Guinness family and he did work for them at Knockmaroon and the Iveagh Trust Recreation Centre (1915). The old restaurant building and the Lion House (1892) at Dublin Zoo are further examples of McDonnells work along with buildings in Grafton and Chatham Street, Dublin.
see:
http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/3835
is this not number 28? Is not numbers 30 and 31 the stock exchange?
What’s the number of Waldron’s office? He is relevant to my local history work in Ballybrack. I am thinking of doing a short post on him on my own blog.
Thanks