Parliament Street (

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: ''Sráid Na Parlaiminte'') is a street located on Dublin's

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. It runs from the junction of

Dame Street Dame Street (; ) is a large thoroughfare in Dublin, Ireland. History The street takes its name from a dam built across the River Poddle to provide water power for milling. First appears in records under this name around 1610 but in the 14th c ...

and Cork Hill on its southern end to the junction of Essex Quay and

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on its northern end where it joins directly onto

Grattan Bridge Grattan Bridge () is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, and joining Capel Street to Parliament Street and the south quays. History The first bridge on this site was built by Sir Humphrey Jervis in 1676. It was named ...

and subsequently

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History

Parliament Street was created in the early 1760s by the

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to open up a direct route to

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with retail buildings on either side. It was the first project to be undertaken by the Commission, created after an Act of Parliament, and was the origin of the name. The Act allowed for the land and associated houses to be purchased for £12,000 to create the new street.

Notable buildings

Sunlight Chambers

One of the street's notable buildings is Sunlight Chambers, which was built as offices for Lord Lever of

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. It has frontages on Parliament Street and Essex Quay. Lever also planned

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in Liverpool. The structure is designed in a "romantic Italianate style with wide overhanging eaves, tiled roof, and arcaded upper floors”. It also has "two multi-coloured terracotta friezes depicting the history of hygiene”.

City Hall

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, originally the Royal Exchange, forms a

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on Parliament Street. The structure was built between 1769 and 1779 and designed by the architect Thomas Cooley. It is the formal seat of

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References

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History

Notable buildings

Sunlight Chambers

City Hall

See also

References