synodhall

Gothic style institutional building, Dublin City, Co. Dublin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 3 older comments, and then…
• Sharon Corbet said:

  Streetview It's the synod house of Christchurch Cathedral, without the footbridge.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  The DIA says 1870s for the passageway to the synod hall. While the building itself is dated 1871- 1875.

• O Mac said:

  I can see the window thats now under the arch. There's also unfinished stonework around it. www.google.de/maps/@53.3431999,-6.271787,3a,41y,318.49h,9...

• beachcomber australia said:

  Nineteenth century Irish ecclesiastical humour ...

  MR. DEAN'S RESTRICTION A learned and humourous dean was one day seated in the Synod Hall, at Dublin, when a scent bottle, falling from the strangers' gallery, happened to alight upon his somewhat bald cranium. Rising from his chair, he asked permission to make a personal explanation. "My lord primate," he said, "I am always glad to see strangers at our our debates, and I feel especially honored by the presence of women. But " -- here he held up the scent bottle -- " let not their precious balms break my head*."

  From trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88440226 30/10/1915 * It is evidently a quote from Psalm 141 v.6 - But let not their precious balms break my head; yea, I will pray yet against their wickedness.

• DannyM8 said:

  From Thoms 1862 …here Michael's-lane intersects… 1 Sherry, C. feather & flock dlr. 22l. May be the business on High Street.