St Werburgh’s Church Dr. Michael O’Neill
NLI MS 104 • Observations from ye Vestry Book of St Warburgh • 1710 Aug 7. Ordered that a model be drawn for rebuilding this Church & an estimation of ye charges thereof & for making valuation. • 1714 Mar 16. A Petition drawn up to the King for a part of ye waste piece of ground in Essex Street (& ? Lane) whereon ye Treasury Office & Council Chambers formerly stood, which has been lately burned. That ye same may be sold towards defraying the expense of rebuilding their church inasmuch as ye said ground is not of any use to his Majesty, new buildings having been lately raised for said purpose within ye Castle of Dublin. • … when said ground was granted by ye King letter Pat. dated 1: Oct 1715 & sold ye on 11 Jan following for £2000 to Walt: Davey Merchant. • 1715 The draught of ye building was done by Capt: Burgh and on ye 26 June at a full vestry of ye Church was ordered to be pulled down. After which ye Commissioners & Inhabitants used to hold their meetings at the Tholscle.
• William King to Lord Molesworth. July 28th 1716 from Bath • … your Lordship Judges right as to the Scantiness of our ground, I had a Modell drawn before I came away and all we could allow was 60 feet in the Clear for the Church in Breadth and 90 for it in length, besides this 20 foot or 24 for the Steeple and front. We are to pull down 3 or 4 Little houses towards the Street to make an Area and we are to valt it thro’out, that the Allys and Seat, may never be disturbed, the roof is to be 38 foot high from the floor and it is to be a Semicircle about 24 foot Diameter we are to go up to the Church out of the Area by Some Steps, the front to be of black Dublin Stone as high as the Pedestals of the Pillars and the rest of free-stone. The passage into it by 3 Doors, the tower if I remember right is an 120 feet.
• William King to Lord Molesworth. August 3 1716 from Bath • I believe the Best Italian Architect must for some time be at a loss in these kingdoms, for the best contrived houses in that Clime wou’d I doubt be very inconvenient in this, and the Italian churches being contrived for multitude of Chappells and Altors wou’d be of no great use here where our Churches are principally for hearing. • … but we only adde that our Surveyor General gives his labour gratis and takes no gratuity on this Occasion or indeed generally Speaking on any other thing, being ready to serve Gent. Merely for ought appears, for the pleasure of Doing so. • We agree with the Severall Workmen for the timber by the Tun for the workmanship by the Square, for the cutting Stone for the plain work and Mouldings each by the foot, for building Walls, Vaulting and etc by the perch, all the Enginier does is give us the Model, computes what Materials will be necessary and to See whether they be Substantial and well put together.
The Price for work & materials at St Warburghs 1716 (NLI MS 104) • Francis Quin for mason and bricklayers work. 2 d/s per perch for ye work only, of wall to be reduced to 10 Inches • Danile Cougaghan for lime slack at 10d per hogshead. • Wm: Hale of Dolphin’s Barn for quarry building stone & such cutting stone as shall arise in his quarry, to be laid down 2s – 6d per perch solid measure. • • Seales & Tench for good fresh water sand laid down & for perch Do measure • Jn: Whiney for Cognes & Ashlar of black stone chizzled 6 ½ per ft. windows of black stone with an OG on one edge & a running base cypherel, also architraves for doors and windows of white stone 12d per ? feet • Projecting cornice Frieze & Architraves at 13d per foot • Dentils cutting at 10d per foot running measure • Large key stones turned scroll wise 6s each • Lesser key stones at 4s – 6d each • Isaac Wills for the roof 7 £ per square. To be of well seasoned red-fir timber, ye wall plates & hammer beams to be of oak timber with proportions of scantlings - & all iron work, scaffolding, ropes & other materials necessary for putting up ye said roof to be at his own expense. • The Compass ceiling at £1-5 per square, consisting of ceiling joists, hanging posts, compass braces & other necessary materials. He was at ye same time obliged to bridge all ye gutters with oak timber, & to board ye same under ye lead, with whole deal boards, at his own expense. • Rob: Greenway for all kinds of iron works 4d for every pd weight. • Is Wills for ye impost moulding 3 feet deep of fir timber, 3 members thereof to be carved or enriched for ye compass ceiling 6d per foot. • Edw: Morton for ye best Beaumorris stales laid down on Aston Key 11 per Thousand & to allow ye ?Commiss ii per Thousand for slates delivered at ye Key. • Cape & Doyle for sheet lead 16s per Hund: for pipes work cash £1-34 per ? they engaging also to put up ye same. • Mr Mossop for glazing work – Bristol crown glass & strong lead of 13 ft long each & banding of same with brass harp wire 9d per foot.
The Price for work & materials at St Warburghs 1716 (NLI MS 104) • Is Wills for framing ye gallery at £3-15 per square ye Bressumers 9 In: The back beams of the seats to be floored with whole deal. • For ye pillars 20s each, each 10 In sq., 10 foot ½ long with a Corinthian head. • Wm Ord for ye ground floor £1-16 per sq. He finding oak joists & cills & whole Deal • Luke Gavin for Dansick Oak for ye seats & inside work • Wm Wall for plastering ye compass ceiling 10s per yard – for ye ceiling under ye galleries 12d per yd. for ye walls 6d per yard – He finding all materials. But be allowed £10 towards the scaffolding. • Jn Shepherd for flags and laying ye floor of ye Church: with flags 2 or 3 In thick of good smooth White Haven flags, facing & squaring at 4 ¾ per foot. • Rob: Caddel for painting 3 times 6d per yard • Hum: Trench for iron Box lock & keys with wooden screws at 2s 6d per lock; He giving also one master key for the gallery & another for ye seats below & for each pair of hinges 2s – 10d • Sam Jones for ye building stone 5d load each weighing 500 • Jn Lampery for tallying & keeping Acct of Lime, Sand, Stones etc., 5s per week.
NLI MS 104 • On 30 June 1719 ye Commissioners directed ye Minister, Ch: Wardens etc to access ye sum of £2000 on ye parish, as being necessary to finish the work over and above money arising from ye sale of ye ground, ye voluntary contributions & ye 4th part of one whole years clear rent of ye houses & lands in ye parish. • Ordered that 100 £ be given to Tho: Burgh Esq. on acct of his trouble. • 1719 Sept 25. A new Valuation of ye seats in this church settled…
James Stevens Curl, Georgian Architecture , p110- • After the Georgian period [England] experienced the rise of Ecclesiology, the Gothic and religious Revivals, and a spate of church building on an enormous scale. Tractarians, Ecclesiology and Pugin attitudes to the church building achievements of Georgian times were hostile. • White Classical belfries and copulas, Classical porticos, box-pews, Baroque organ cases, three-decker pulpits, Classically-based altar-rails, Royal Arms, painted and lettered rederoses (usually with the Decalogue), benefaction-boards, hatchments, and – perhaps most loathed of all – galleries, were hated by the Ecclesiologists.
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