| Reference Number | RE/2/2/15 |
| Title | Photograph of the chapel in the Mater Hospital |
| Date | [1898] |
| Creator Name | London & County Photographic Company |
| Description | Photograph of the hospital chapel in the west wing in the Mater Hospital.
The chapel was constructed as part of the newly built West Wing (opened in 1886) to replace the temporary chapel in the Pillar Room, and occupied the space of 2 floors, from the first floor to the roof. When the current chapel was built and opened in 1937, it was deconsecrated, and a new floor was installed below the windows to create four more wards; St Agatha’s and St Cecilia’s Wards (female surgical) on the top floor and St Gabriel’s and St Agnes’ Wards (female medical) on the middle floor (the current 2nd floor). St Agnes’s Ward later became the National Spinal Unit. In the mid-1970’s, St Agatha’s and St Cecilia’s Wards were reconstructed as an intensive care unit. A new ceiling was put in place below the ornate ceiling of the original chapel, leaving the original decorated ceiling intact. With the recent renovation of the former I.C.U. into The Pillar Centre for Transformative Healthcare in 2018, a section of the original chapel ceiling has been restored and is on display. |
| Extent | 1 photograph |
| Digital Collections | View online in our digital collections |
| Copyright | Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Image use | Images can be used for non-commercial purposes, with attribution, under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| Credit Line | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |
| Term | Architecture |
| Hospital Design and Construction |
| Photograph |