. History of ancient and modern Dublin; or, Visitor's guide to the metropolis of Ireland ... stle Market nowstands. The present situation is about onehundred and thirty yards east of the former:here a church was erected in 1670, but it havingfallen into decay, the present edifice, in imita-tion of St. Mary de Rotunda, at Rome, waserected in 1793. It is in the form of an ellipsis,whose major axis is eighty feet in length, andthe minor sixty. The gallery is ornamentedby seven large windows; in the eastern of which>there is a representation of little children com-ing to Chiist; and in the west
. History of ancient and modern Dublin; or, Visitor's guide to the metropolis of Ireland ... stle Market nowstands. The present situation is about onehundred and thirty yards east of the former:here a church was erected in 1670, but it havingfallen into decay, the present edifice, in imita-tion of St. Mary de Rotunda, at Rome, waserected in 1793. It is in the form of an ellipsis,whose major axis is eighty feet in length, andthe minor sixty. The gallery is ornamentedby seven large windows; in the eastern of which>there is a representation of little children com-ing to Chiist; and in the western, is one of theflight into Egypt. On the south side of theellipsis stand the pulpit and reading desk, overwhich rises the organ. The communion tablein front, enclosed by a handsome semi-ellipticalrailing, forms one side of the oval area thatoccupies the centre of the church, which isbeautifully floored with black and white stone-The pews are formed in the intervals betweenthe passages which diverge irom the centre ofliie ellipsiff, as radii, and rise in the form of an &iA^ STAMP OFFICE, Vide p. 113.
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