St. Teresa's Church (Dublin)

Ireland / Dublin / Dublin / Clarendon Street
 church, catholicism

St Teresa's is Dublin's oldest Roman Catholic church and was built in 1793 for the Order of the Discalced Carmelites who first came to Ireland in 1626. In 1877 a new transept was added in Romanesque style. The front is of Dalkey granite in coursed ashlar dressings of granite and Portland stone. The arcades and windows are elaborately moulded and enriched with columns of polished Dalkey granite, the shafts of the pinnacles being of polished Newry granite.

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Coordinates:   53°20'31"N   6°15'39"W
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