St. Michael's Church is a former Church of Ireland

Church of Ireland

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 church located in High St., Dublin, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

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The church

A chapel was originally erected by Donat, Archbishop of Dublin, in 1076, which was converted into a parish church by Archbishop Richard Talbot in 1417. It was used by the Corporation of Shoe-makers, a guild

Guild

A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade. The earliest types of guild were formed as confraternities of workers. They were organized in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel, and a secret society...

. It was situated in High Street, at the corner of Christ Church lane, immediately opposite the western end of the cathedral, where the former Synod

Synod

A synod historically is a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. In modern usage, the word often refers to the governing body of a particular church, whether its members are meeting or not...

 Hall now stands. In 1554 St. Michael's was one of three Prebends in Christ Church set up by Archbishop Browne.

For a number of years it fell into ruin, but was rebuilt in 1815, when Dr. Graves, Dean of Armagh, was Prebendary. It was demolished by George Edmund Street

George Edmund Street

George Edmund Street was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex.- Life :Street was the third son of Thomas Street, solicitor, by his second wife, Mary Anne Millington. George went to school at Mitcham in about 1830, and later to the Camberwell collegiate school, which he left in 1839...

 later in the 19th century during his restoration of Christ Church cathedral.

The parish

The parish was one of the smallest in Dublin, covering just over 5 acres (20,234.3 m²). Around 1850 it contained 1,317 inhabitants.

Notable parishioners

• Daniel Wytter (rector 1662-1664), who became bishop of Dromore
  Dromore
  - Places :* Dromore, Ontario, Canada* Dromore , a crater in the Lunae Palus quadrangle of Mars- Other :* Bishop of Dromore, named for the town in County Down; the pre-Reformation antecedent of:** Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore...
  
  
• Gabriel Jacques Maturin (rector 1734-35)
• Edward Ledwich (rector 1749-1761, not the antiquary of the same name, who was born in 1739 across the road in Nicholas St.), who became Archdeacon of Kildare and Prebendary of Christ Church.

Thomas Taylor, founder of the Bective family, who worked with William Petty

William Petty

Sir William Petty FRS was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers...

 in compiling the Down Survey of Ireland

Down Survey

The Down Survey, also known as the Civil Survey, refers to the mapping of Ireland carried out by William Petty, English scientist in 1655 and 1656....

, was interred here in 1682. It was also the burial-place of the Fielding family, ancestors to the Earls of Desmond

George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond

George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond was an Irish peer and the second son of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh.Lord Desmond married Bridget Stanhope, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope, with whom he had one child:...

. Ford Lambart, 5th Earl of Cavan

Ford Lambart, 5th Earl of Cavan

Ford Lambart, 5th Earl of Cavan was an Irish peer and freemason.He was born in 1718 in Maryborough. Lambart was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in 1767, a post he held for the next two years....

, was interred here in 1772.