St Thomas's Church in Marlborough Street,

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was a

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parish church. It was replaced by a new church, St. Thomas's Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, in 1930.

The church

Establishment

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 John Smyth. The design is modelled on Palladio's

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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, built in the

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style similar to St Catherine's Church on Thomas Street. It was opened for worship in 1762.

Operation

In 1866 Rev. John Grainger from St. Thomas's, moved to the found the new Church in Sherrif Street, East Wall St. Barnabas' Church, Dublin.

Loss and replacement

The church was gutted by a fire in July 1922. This fire, which destroyed most of Upper Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street), occurred during the

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. Although the main structure survived, the opportunity was taken to extend Gloucester Street (now Sean Mac Dermott Street) up to O'Connell Street,Kearns, Dublin Tenement Life and the church had to be removed in 1926 to enable this. The new St Thomas's Church was erected on the site of the former parochial hall, on an "island" site in Cathal Brugha Street, in 1930. The foundation stone of the former church is retained in the new St Thomas's Church.

The parish

There were 17,108 inhabitants in St. Thomas's parish in 1825.Wright, 1825

Clergy

* Rev. Charles Stuart Stanford DD, (1805-1873) served as Rector(1852-1872) * Rev. John Grainger DD, from St. Thomas's, moved to East Wall to create St. Barnabas' Church, Dublin.

Burials

Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough Edward Augustus Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough, (1736 – 2 January 1801) of Belan house, styled The Honourable from 1763 to 1777 and Viscount Amiens in the latter year, was an Irish peer, Whig (British political faction), Whig politician, a ...

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