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Christchurch Cathedral
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Christchurch Cathedral
Early monks erected a wooden structure on the present day site and named it Holy Trinity later Christchurch
The Norman’s replaced the wooden building with a stone structure in the 1170s.
Dublin has a strange distinction of possessing two Protestant Cathedrals and lacks even one for the Roman Catholic’s. The Church of Ireland owes the existence of its twin cathedrals to church rivalries during the middle ages.
By the middle of the 19th century lack of maintenance and investment threatened irrevocable ruination of the cathedral, which was only averted by the unlikely but not unholy alliance of religion and alcohol. Henry Roe a Dublin whiskey distiller spent a fortune restoring Christchurch. He also erected the effective overhead bridge and the Synod Hall to which it is connected.
Strongbow, Richard deCourcy, leader of the Anglo-Norman conquerers of Ireland lies buried in the crypt of Christchurch.
A magnificent painting in the main hall of the National Gallery by Daniel Maclise, depicts the marriage of the Norman Strongbow to the daughter of a native chieftain Aoife.