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Newman University Church

Newman University Church
Church of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom
Newman University Church Interior, Dublin, Ireland - Diliff.jpg
View of the interior. Its bright colours and marble arches on the wall make Newman University Church very unusual for an Irish church.
Newman University Church is located in Central Dublin
Newman University Church
Newman University Church
53°20′13″N 6°15′38″W / 53.336852°N 6.260539°W / 53.336852; -6.260539Coordinates: 53°20′13″N 6°15′38″W / 53.336852°N 6.260539°W / 53.336852; -6.260539
Location 87A St Stephen's Green South, Dublin
Country Ireland
Denomination Roman Catholic
Tradition Latin
Website newman.nd.edu/university-church/
History
Dedication Mary, mother of Jesus (as Our Lady Seat of Wisdom)
Consecrated 1 May 1856
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architect(s) John Hungerford Pollen (senior)
Architectural type Church
Style Byzantine Revival, Romanesque
Groundbreaking May 1855
Construction cost £5,600
Specifications
Capacity 600
Length 61 m (200 ft)
Width 12 m (39 ft)
Materials brick, slate, marble, serpentine, alabaster, wood, copper
Administration
Parish University Church
Deanery South City Centre
Archdiocese Dublin
Sacristan Pat O'Kelly

The Church of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, also known as Newman University Church or Catholic University Church, is a Catholic church in Dublin, Ireland.

Groundbreaking took place on the site of the gardens of 87 St Stephen's Green in May 1855. It was founded by John Henry Newman for the newly-founded Catholic University of Ireland, and designed by John Hungerford Pollen (senior) in a Byzantine Revival style, due to Newman's dislike of Gothic architecture. It was consecrated on Ascension Day (1 May) 1856. On May 4 (Saint Monica's Day), Newman preached in his sermon the essential place of the church in his plans for the university: "I wish in the same spots and the same individuals to be at once oracles of philosophy and shrines of devotion. [...] Devotion is not a sort of finish given to the sciences; nor is science a sort of feather in the cap."

The Lady Chapel was added to the church in 1875.

In 1907 it was the site of the funeral of the Fenian James Bermingham.

During the 1916 Easter Rising British soldiers established a machine-gun post on the roof of the church.

Future Taoiseach John A. Costello married Ida Mary O'Malley in the church in 1919.

The church is accessed by a Romanesque porch in polychromatic brick, with a belfry suspended over it. There is then an atrium leading into the ante-church, nave and sanctuary.


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