Item 25 - Deed of Exchange and Indemnity

Deed of exchange and indemnity of Rev. Thomas Matthew O’Connor OSFC, Rev. Michael Leonard Brophy OSFC and other Capuchin friars of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, with Sir John Harley Scott, Knockrea House, Douglas Road, Cork, William Henry Bible, Richmond, Blackrock Road, County Cork, William Bannister, Victoria Cross, Cork, and other trustees of the Cork Protestant Hall and Assembly Rooms Association. The deed refers to an exchange of a portion (about 40 feet in width) of premises on Queen Street held under a lease of 1 Jan. 1846 (CA HT/2/1/1/9), adjoining Holy Trinity Church and the Assembly Rooms. The exchange involved an assignment of a residue of the aforementioned lease but indemnified from the remainder of the premises. The Capuchins were seeking an extension to the chancel of Holy Trinity Church as shown in an attached sketch map by W.H. Hall & Son, architects and engineers, 20 South Mall, Cork. See also CA HT/2/1/1/36 for particulars of the sale by public auction of the Assembly Rooms to the Capuchin friars in the late 1960s.