1847 – Presbyterian Church, Ormond Quay, Dublin

Fine church with a large window and twin towers on its main (and only) elevation to the street. The architect Edward Gribbon was Irish-born but working in London and returned to Ireland as the result of winning the competition to design the church in 1845. Destroyed in a fire in the late 1960s, leaving only the ground floor entrances intact. After standing as a ruin for a couple of years the site was redeveloped into office accommodation in 1989. At one stage in the 1970s, a property developer proposed a nine-storey block on the site.

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