MEATII-STREET CHAPEL.

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eight is ornamented by a very beautiful painting of St.Francis, copied from Guido, and the altar piece on theleft represents the Virgin and Child. In one of the orna-mented niches, over the side altar, a small organ is placed,and in the corresponding niche there is a false front.

The ceiling, which is semi-eliptical, consists of groinedarches springing from heads of saints, placed in the piersbetween the windows, on each side ; and three lustres aresuspended from richly-worked pendents, which drop fromthe intersections of the arches. The aisle is lighted byfive pointed windows in each side, decorated with labelsspringing from heads of saints; and the half of eachwindow is ornamented with stained glass. The stuccoand carving were executed by O’Brien, a Dublin artist ;and the building is after a design by Messrs. O’Brienand Gorman.

Divine service is celebrated here at the usual hours ;there are six curates to assist the parish priest in thedischarge of his duties. The chapel also presents a frontto Halstein-street, at the back of Newgate, but this ismerely of brick.—Admittance may be had to this chapelat any time,

MEATH-STREET CHAPEL.

This chapel is for the accommodation of the RomanCatholic parishioners of St. Catharine’s and a rural dis-trict extending to the canal. It is situated at the back ofthe houses on the east of Meath-street, in that part ofthe city, called the Earl of Meath’s Liberty. The chapelbelonging to the parish, formerly stood in Bridge-foot-

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