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SAINT JUDES CHURCH TOWER
The 90mm lens was not very useful when I tried to photograph this old church.
Until today I was unaware of this church and had to ask a few people about it before I found one who believed that it was known as Saint Judes.
Saint Jude's Church was constructed between 1862 and 1864 to the designs of Welland and Gillespie in an Early English Gothic style at a cost of £4,000. Saint Jude's was closely affiliated with the Great Southern & Western Railway which was established to the west in Inchicore in 1846. The church was sold by the Dublin Diocese in the 1980s and was demolished by Desmond Guinness in 1988, who removed the materials to Straffan, where its timbers and stained glass were used to decorate a steam-traction museum. Only the tower and spire remain at Kilmainham, illustrating the high quality craftsmanship and materials employed in the original construction.
Until today I was unaware of this church and had to ask a few people about it before I found one who believed that it was known as Saint Judes.
Saint Jude's Church was constructed between 1862 and 1864 to the designs of Welland and Gillespie in an Early English Gothic style at a cost of £4,000. Saint Jude's was closely affiliated with the Great Southern & Western Railway which was established to the west in Inchicore in 1846. The church was sold by the Dublin Diocese in the 1980s and was demolished by Desmond Guinness in 1988, who removed the materials to Straffan, where its timbers and stained glass were used to decorate a steam-traction museum. Only the tower and spire remain at Kilmainham, illustrating the high quality craftsmanship and materials employed in the original construction.
SAINT JUDES CHURCH TOWER
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