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Title: Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin Year: 1780 (1780s) Authors: Pool, Robert, artist Cash, John Lodge, John, d. 1796 Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807 Subjects: Architecture Publisher: Dublin : Printed for J. Williams, no. 21, Skinner-row Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Text Appearing Before Image: io UlteriusCor lacerare nequit. Abi Viator Et imitare, fi poteris, Strenuum pro virili Libertatis Vindicatorem. Obiit 190. Die Menfis Oftobris A. D. 1745. Anno ^Etatis 7 8°. Z Over 86 DESCRIPTION OF, ^. Over the monument was lately placed his buftin marble, fculptured by Cunningham, and ef-teemed a good likenefs; it is the gift of T. T.Faulkner, Efq; nephew and fucceflbr of the lateAlderman George Faulkner, Swifts Bookfeller,and the original publifher of molt of his works. In the Choir are feveral monuments of an olderdate ; the principal is that of the family of Boyle,Earl of Cork, on which is placed near twenty fi-gures, cut in wood, and erected in the year 1629.In the Chapter-room, is a black flab over the Dukeof Schomberg, who fell at the battle of the Boyne,with an infcription by Swift, concluding with a fe-vere ftricture upon his relations, who refufed toraife any fepulchral monument to his name, pluspotuit fama virtutis apud alienos quam fanguinisproximitas apud fuos. St. WER-

Text Appearing After Image: H..-V ,.1.. .•s.~,^ £-yr<br.ts- PKONT of STWEMBVKOH S CMrRfH » St. WERBURGHs-CHURCH, W A S originally built at a very early period ;the firft notice taken of it in the annals ofDublin, is in A. D. 1301, when it was acci-dentally burned, together with a great part of theCity; it was again burned in the year 1754,and was repaired in its prefent beautiful form inthe year 1759. The external appearance of this church formsone of the principal ornaments of the City inthe center of which it is iituated, in a ftreet ofthe fame name, and fronts to the weft. Theelevation of the front, reprefented in the an-nexed engraving, difplays both elegance and de-licacy, and is perfedl in its proportions ; thefirft ftory is ornamented by fix Ionic pilafters,with their entablature, a grand entrance in theDoric order, and two ride doors ; the fecondftory is in the Corinthian order, crowned bya pediment, a large window lights the Loft, from 88 DESCRIPTION OF from whence an excellent fett of bells are

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