PARISH CHURCH GRANGEGORMAN

ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH GRANGEGORMAN [CHURCH OF IRELAND]


This is next to Phibsboro Fire Station so don;t wander around Grangegorman trying to find it.

I have often complained to anyone who will listen that it is now difficult to gain access to many churches in Dublin but a few weeks ago someone suggested that all I need do is locate the car park because many churches, especially Church Of Ireland, charge for car parking on a commercial basis.

Last Thursday I was walking by All Saints Church which is next to the No 3 Fire Station and the gate was locked but rather than give up I decided to see if I could locate a car park and sure enough it was down a lane beside the fire station and this allowed me to photograph the exterior of the church. Unfortunately it was not possible to photograph the interior.

I checked All Saints Church on Google and found the following description: "Apparel chain with its own line of stylish, edgy apparel, including leather jackets in many styles."

All Saints Church, Grangegorman is a Church of Ireland church. It was built in 1828 according to the designs proposed by John Semple and formed as a parish in 1829 from the areas of St. Michan's and St. Paul's. It is a constituent member of the Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Parish Group alongside St. Michan's Church, Dublin and St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin. This church in noteworthy on the basis that it is numbered among the first in Ireland to worship according to Tractarian Principles and was the subject of protest and sanction by the Protestant community in Ireland in the 19th century.

The church, originally designed by John Semple, was later remodelled by Thomas Drew between 1856-1889 according to Tractarian principles. This amounted to the redesign of the chancel in 1856 and the addition of the baptistery in 1889. The church also boasts a fine number of stained glass windows designed by A. L. Moore installed during the 1880s and 1890s. The church was devastated by fire in 1966 and a number of notable features were lost including the 19th century roofing.

In 1920 a triptych war memorial was installed to commemorate those members of the parish who died in war. On the Southward facing external wall of the church a panel depicting St. Michael, by An Túr Gloine artist Ethel Rhind, was installed in 1921 associated with a World War I memorial located within the Church. At the back of the church a memorial to George Tyrrell was installed. Born into the community of All Saints, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained as a Jesuit priest before being excommunicated for modernist views challenging, amongst others, the doctrine of Papal Infallibility. When he was denied a Catholic burial the community of All Saints facilitated his funeral.