Ormond Quay Presbyterian church, Presbyterian church on Ormond Quay, Dublin, Ireland
Ormond Quay Presbyterian Church was a church built in 1847 to the design of architect Edward P. Gribbon and enlarged by him in 1859. After a fire in the 1960s Dublin Corporation removed its upper section, and in 1989 the ground floor facade was incorporated into an office building called Grattan Bridge House at 3 Ormond Quay Upper.
The congregation began in 1707 at Ushers Quay as a result of a separation from another Presbyterian group and relocated to Ormond Quay in 1847. The new church building became established as a significant presence on the quay for the following decades.
The congregation ran the Presbyterian Female Orphan School at 77 Upper Dorset Street, with its pastor and members sitting on the board of governors. Rev. Richard Dill, minister from 1835 to 1858, oversaw the move to Ormond Quay and was executor of Martha Magee's will, which led to the founding of Magee College.
The church building was damaged by fire in the 1960s and its granite facade was later incorporated into an office building completed in 1989. The site remains accessible from the quay, though visitors see modern architecture rather than the original structure.
The church was funded by an inheritance from Martha Maria Magee, whose soldier brothers left her the means to support this construction project. Her personal contribution became one of the lesser-known stories behind the building's existence on the quay.
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