st patricks church of ireland cathedral

The anglican cathedral of St Patrick has a medieval core, and was restored in 1765 by Archbishop Robinson. However, its present sandstone exterior is later. The cathedral was brand new when Thackeray visited it in 1842 and admired the eighteenth century monuments inside. These include a stature of Sir Thomas Molyneux by Roubiliac, one of Dean Drelncourt by the Flemish sculptor Rysbrack, and a bust of Archbishop Robinson by Nollekens.

Notice a fine kneeling figure of Primate William Stuart by Chantrey, a brass tablet to the archaelogical and historian Bishop Reeves, a broken eleventh century market cross, and a collection of pagan stone figures in the north transept where seventeenth century memorials to the Earls of Charlemont are set in the west wall. The Royal Irish Fusiliers' chapel is in the south transept.

Outside a small door at the east end leads to Archbishop Patrick O'Scanail's thirteenth century crypt. Note grotesque medieval stone heads high up round the exterior walls and a sundial of 1706.