Beresford Place

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Beresford Place
The corner of Store Street and Beresford Place - geograph.org.uk - 1732632.jpg
The corner of Store Street and Beresford Place
Beresford Place is located in Central Dublin
Beresford Place
Namesake John Claudius Beresford
Location Dublin, Ireland
Postal code D01
Coordinates 53°20′58″N 6°15′22″W / 53.3493385°N 6.2561061°W / 53.3493385; -6.2561061Coordinates: 53°20′58″N 6°15′22″W / 53.3493385°N 6.2561061°W / 53.3493385; -6.2561061
west end Gardiner Street
east end Amiens Street, Memorial Road
Other
Designer James Gandon
Known for Georgian architecture

Beresford Place is a street in Dublin, Ireland originally laid out as a crescent in 1792.

History[]

Beresford Place was originally constructed in 1792 as a continuous crescent which was aligned to the axis of the central dome of the Custom House. Along with the Custom House, the houses were also designed by James Gandon with the houses being built for John Claudius Beresford. At that time it was located at the edge of the city, with Marlborough Green and Tyrone House to the north and Mabbot Street to the south. Later a corresponding crescent was intended to be developed by Luke Gardiner at the other end of Gardiner Street near the Mater Hospital however these plans never reached construction stage owing to the economic downturn following the Acts of Union.

The crescent was bisected in 1888-1889 by the construction of the Loop Line railway, and since further impacted by the destruction of some buildings during the Irish War of Independence and in the 1970s by the development of the new headquarters of Irish Life at the Irish Life Centre. Five houses between two radial streets, Gardiner Street and Store Street, now remain, with the houses west of Gardiner Street having been demolished. The site now occupied by Busáras was intended to be a further store house for Custom House Quay.

The extant Gandon houses are 4 storeys over basements, built with red brick with rusticated granite ground floors. The end houses are both on an irregular trapezoidal plan, and are entered from Gardiner Street and Store Street respectively.[1] They are among very few specifically unified formal terraces from the 18th century and the only surviving example.[1]

There were tentative plans to demolish and redevelop the site in the 1960s, with a design by Michael Scott.[2][3]

Connolly statue

In 1996 a statue of James Connolly by Éamonn O'Doherty was erected on the street just west of the Custom House, facing onto Liberty Hall.[1] At the other end of the street, at the junction of Beresford Place, Amiens Street, and Memorial Road is the sculpture Universal Links on Human Rights by Tony O'Malley, erected in 1995.[4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Casey 2005, p. 180-181.
  2. ^ McDonald 1985, p. 158.
  3. ^ "1790 – Beresford Place, Dublin". Archiseek - Irish Architecture. 4 February 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. ^ Doherty, Neal (2015). The complete guide to the statues and sculptures of Dublin City. Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-909895-72-0. OCLC 907195579.

Sources

  • Casey, Christine (2005). Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-30010-923-8.
  • McDonald, Frank (1985). The Destruction of Dublin. Gill and MacMillan. ISBN 0-7171-1386-8.
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