No other church in Dublin retains such an elaborate or such a complete High Victorian decorative scheme, writes Alistair Rowan
The Church of Ireland church of St Bartholomew in Clyde Road, Dublin, is reassuringly solid. Set firmly on a triangular site at the junction of Clyde Road and Elgin Road, its chancel and belfry tower provide a visual focus in the streets of the fashionable Victorian suburb, developed to the south of the Grand Canal by the Pembroke estate. In contrast to the long brick-built terraces and semi-detached villas that surround it, St Bartholomew’s is built of stone. A hard granite from Dalkey, with a pinkish brown sandstone from Staffordshire in England is used for all the parts of the building that required fine detail.
