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road, is the third. There are three parochial schools, a
boarding school for girls, a day school for both sexes,
and an infants’ school, also a day school for both sexes
endowed with a bequest by Miss Kellett.
Grangegorman parish, situated partly within the new
electoral boundary, north of the city, and partly in the
county of Dublin, was formed out of those parts of the
parishes of St. Michan, St. Paul, and St. George, which
were in the manor of Grangegorman. It contains 7382
inhabitants, and 472 houses valued at £5 and upwards,
the total annual value being £6102. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Prebend-
aries and Vicars choral of the cathedral of Christ-
Church. The church was erected by a grant from
the Board of First Fruits, in 1830. Within the parish
are the House of Industry, the Richmond Penitentiary,
the Lunatic Asylum for the district of Dublin, and the
female orphan school, to the last-named of which an
Episcopal chapel is attached. There are two day
schools for both sexes, one of which is attached to the
House of Industry, a female orphan school, and a day
and infants’ school, connected with the R. C. chapel.
The total number of pupils in the day schools is
493.
St. James’s parish contains 13,197 inhabitants, and
625 houses valued at £5 and upwards, the total annual
value being £13,176. The living is a vicarage, in the
patronage of the Earl of Meath; the minister’s money
amounts to £109. 1. 4. The church is a low and very
plain building; owing to the small accommodation it
affords to the numerous parishioners, it is the intention
of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to erect a new one.
The cemetery is very large and situated on the north side
of a hill sloping down towards the river. The episcopal
chapels of the Royal and Foundling Hospitals are in this
parish; and there is a chapel of ease at Golden-Bridge,
chiefly for the use of Richmond barracks. There are
parochial schools for boys and girls, three national
schools, and an infants’ school.
St. John’s parish contains 4351 inhabitants, and 291
houses valued at £5 and upwards, the total annual value
being £9840.10. It was erected into a prebend with cure
of souls in the cathedral of Christ-Church, in 1554, and
is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter; the minister’s
money amounts to £118. 9. 3., and the gross income of
the prebendary is £398.2. 8. The church, situated at the
corner of John’s-lane, was rebuilt in 1773: it presents to
Fishamble-street a neat front adorned with four Doric
columns supporting a pediment, and approached by a
broad flight of steps: in this front is the chief entrance
to the body of the church and one to each of the galle-
ries. In 1836 it underwent a thorough repair, for which
a grant of £879. 9. 7. was made by the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, There are parochial schools for boys
and girls, two national schools for boys and girls, a
Sunday school, and an evening school for adult males.
St, Luke’s parish contains 6605 inhabitants, and
337 houses valued at £5 and upwards, the total annual
value being £7654. The living is a vicarage, in the
diocese of Dublin, and in the patronage of the Dean and
Chapter of Christ-Church; the minister’s money is
£92. 7. 8., and the gross income £171. 17. 4. The
church, erected in 1708, when the parish, which had
been a part of that of St. Nicholas, was formed, is
approached by an avenue of trees from the Coombe,
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and is a plain structure entered by a large doorway be-
tween rusticated columns: it was re-roofed in 1835 by
a grant of £1029. 13. 6. from the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners. There are parochial schools for boys and
girls, in which some of the children are clothed and
some dieted; also an infants’ school and a national
school, all supported by charity sermons and some small
bequests.
St. Mark’s parish was severed from that of St.
Andrew by act of parliament in 1707: it contains
14,811 inhabitants, and 1076 houses valued at £5
and upwards, the total annual value being £38,592.
The living is a vicarage, in the joint patronage of the
Lord-Chancellor, the Archbishop of Dublin, the three
Chief Judges, and the Master of the Rolls; the
minister’s money is £330. 3. 3. The church is situ-
ated in Mark-street, adjacent to Brunswick-street: it
was built in 1729, and is a large building perfectly
plain; the interior is very neat and commodious. The
Ecclesiastical Commissioners have granted £165. 13. 5.
for repairing it. The Mariners’ church, built in Forbes-
street in 1832, and the Episcopal chapel belonging to
the marine school, are in this parish; as locally is Trinity
College, which is extra-parochial. There are parochial,
day, and female schools, one on the foundation of
Erasmus Smith, the marine school for sailors’ orphans,
a female orphan school, and an infants’ school.
St. Mary’s, originally part of St. Michan’s parish,
and separated from it in 1697, contains 25,305 inhabit-
ants, and 2018 houses valued at £5 and upwards, the
total annual value being £91,895. The living is a
rectory, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of
Christ-Church: the minister’s money amounts to
£974. 16. 6., and the gross income is £1127. The
church is a large building, in Stafford-street, pos-
sessing little architectural beauty. Its chief entrance
is a large gate with Ionic columns on each side, sur-
mounted by a square belfry. In the interior are many
monumental tablets, among the more remarkable of
which is one to the memory of Edw. Tennison, Bishop
of Ossory; one to that of Dr. Robt. Law; one to that of
Mr. Wm. Watson, founder of the Society for Discounte-
nancing Vice; and one lately erected to the Hon. T. B.
Vandeleur, third justice of the King’s Bench, Ireland.
In the crowded cemetery are the tombs of Dr. Marlay,
Bishop of Waterford, and uncle to the late Henry Grat-
tan; Mrs. Mercer, the foundress of Mercer’s Hospital;
and Mr. Simpson, the founder of Simpson’s Hospital.
The Board of First Fruits, in 1831, granted a loan of
£1615 for the repair of the church, and in 1836 the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners granted £205.3. 11. for
the same purpose. St. Mary’s chapel of ease, built
on a plot of ground in Mountjoy-street, presented to
the parish by the Earl of Mountjoy, is a very elegant
specimen of the modern Gothic, from a design of Mr.
Semple; it has a light tapering spire surrounded by
minarets of similar shape. It was opened in 1830
as a free church, and has lately received a grant of
£445. 13.0. for its repair from the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners. TheEpiscopal chapel of theLying-in Hospital
and the Bethesda Episcopal chapel are in this parish; the
latter was erected in 1786, at the sole expense of Wm.
Smyth, Esq., nephew of the Archbishop of that name:
he appointed two clergymen to officiate, and, in 1787,
annexed to it an asylum for female orphans, in which about
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