1885 – St. Saviour’s Dominican Convent, Dublin
Adjacent to the fine St Saviour’s Church by J.J. McCarthy is the monastery designed by John Loftus Robinson in 1885 from the funds that was originally intended to add a tower and spire to the church.
Adjacent to the fine St Saviour’s Church by J.J. McCarthy is the monastery designed by John Loftus Robinson in 1885 from the funds that was originally intended to add a tower and spire to the church.
Originally designed by Daniel J. Freeman, Dublin city architect 1879-1893, with construction starting in 1884.
Perspective view including ground plan, published in The Building News, July 31st 1885. Still a public house today,
Perspective published in The Builder, May 2nd 1885.
The residence of Hilton Greaves esq., perspective view including ground plan published in The Building News,
Thomas Thompson, a navel surgeon distinguished in the Napoleonic Wars, was appalled by the conditions in Belfast during the Great Famine.
This fine building was erected in 1885 as “Thompson House for the Incurables”, named after a local surgeon (William Thompson MD) who had tragically died three years earlier.