Land parcel 5465601

Area

1,151 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,076 m².

Zoning

O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 29 Jun 2020Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission is sought for remedial, repair and recladding works to the copper roofs and domes of St. Francis Xavier's Church, Gardiner Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 RK07 which is within a conservation area.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2940/20

• 10 Jun 2020Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning Permission for remedial repair and recladding works to the copper roofs and domes of St. Francis Xavier's Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, D01RK07 which is within a Conservation Area.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2847/20

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Convent of the Sisters of Charity, house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited pair of four-bay thee-storey houses over exposed basement, built c.1828, now combined to form convent, with doorway of southern house now blocked up to form window, and with further storey to northern three bays of front elevation. Attached chapel to rear. Flat roof to four-storey section and pitched roof to remainder, hidden behind raised parapet wall with granite coping. Cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods breaking through parapets to front and south gable. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond with rusticated granite quoins to either end and continuous granite sill band to first floor. Granite plinth course above rusticated cement rendered basement walls. Masonry name plaque to south gable: "GARDINER-St/CONVENT NATIONAL SCHOOLS". Gauged brick flat-arched window openings having render reveals, granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Steel grilles to basement windows. Gauged brick round-headed window openings to rear stair hall. Gauged brick three-centred arched door opening with moulded masonry surround and painted masonry doorcase, with original timber door with four flat panels, bolection mouldings and brass furniture. Door flanked by paired plain pilasters each surmounted by over-sized scrolled console brackets supporting plain frieze and lintel cornice with original cobweb fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and four granite steps bridging basement area. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth wall. Interior retains polished timber panelled doors and architrave surrounds, dog-leg open-string timber stair with turned balusters and continuous polished handrail, and some slate and cast-iron fire surrounds. Chapel has pitched slate roof with copings and carved stone cross finials, red brick walls with yellow brick bands at sill, impost and eaves levels, paired pointed-arch windows with ashlar block-and-start stone surrounds, mullions and sills, doorway with shouldered flat-headed doorway, and with lower two-storey link to convent building proper with similar details, and paired round-headed windows to upper gable with margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows.

• Convent of the Sisters of Charity, church/chapel, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay single-cell chapel, built c.1890, with connecting wing abutting rear elevation of Sisters of Charity Convent, with entrance porch to northwest and sacristy to east gable, built c.1990. Pitched slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods on chamfered red brick eaves course. Roof set behind slightly raised gables with limestone coping, surmounted by limestone Celtic cross finials and limestone trimmed red brick chimneystack rising from south nave elevation with octagonal clay pot. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with flush yellow brick courses and projecting yellow and red brick plinth course. Pointed-arch window openings arranged in pairs to nave having polychrome brick heads, flush chamfered Portland limestone surrounds and decorative leaded glazing. East gable has rose window formed in Portland limestone with polychrome head, cinquefoil opening, decorative leaded glazing and storm glazing. To apex is further Portland limestone block with diminutive trefoil opening and leaded glazing. Ground floor to east gable now abutted by flat-roofed red brick sacristy with round-headed window openings and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. To north-west re-entrant angle is single-storey entrance porch with hipped roof and two window openings and single door opening each having chamfered shouldered Portland limestone surrounds with sheeted timber door and iron door furniture. To east end of north nave elevation is further single-storey accretion with hipped slate roof and square-headed door opening with Portland limestone lintel and sheeted timber door with iron door furniture. Interior has exposed roof with timber scissor-trusses resting on stone corbels, painted plastered walls and carpeted floor. To east end is elaborate neo-Gothic marble reredos and altar piece set below east window having decorative Gothic surround. Trefoil-headed timber panelling to chancel and original timber chairs and prayer stands. To west end is timber panelled gallery supported on stop-chamfered timber bream with pair of arched niches and segmental-headed entrance below.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3206 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.