Chapel Royal

Church/chapel in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1805–1815

Attached six-bay gable-fronted chapel with two-tiered long walls and semi-basement, built 1807-14, restored 1989. Attached to medieval Record Tower at west gable end. Pitched slate roof with diminishing courses, cast-iron and lead decorative ridge with alternating trefoil and inverted V-enrichments, ashlar limestone bellcote to west gable, battlemented ashlar limestone gables and parapets with crocketed pinnacles to buttresses, and cast-iron downpipes with moulded cast-iron hopper heads. Flat roofs to chancel and corridor to west. Coursed ashlar calp limestone walling, having two-tier buttresses, moulded plinth to basement and parapet strings. Pointed-arch openings to each tier, and square-headed openings to basement, containing triple-light windows with moulded mullions and transoms, hood-mouldings on carved label-stops to upper tier, and four-light stained-glass east window with enriched hood-moulding surmounted by carved crown. Shallow pointed-arch opening to east end, set in chamfered recess, with moulded label-moulding with stops in form of carved heads (St. Patrick and Brian Boru), four-panel moulded hardwood double-leaf door with fanlight containing quatrefoil, and round central panel surmounted by rectangular inscribed panel with angular label-stop. Interior has galleries to nave and aisles, with two-tier chancel to west and two-storey corridor to east. Carved wood inte

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1805–1815

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.27°W

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