Christ Church Cathedral

Christ Church Cathedral

The Dublin diocesan cathedral of the Church of Ireland. This church was founded in 1038 by King Sitric Silkenbeard in the center of Viking Dublin. A part of the choir dates from the late twelfth century, and the nave was completed in the thirteenth. Damaged by a roof collapse in 1562, the cathedral was restored by the distiller Henry Roe in the 1870s, and recently again refurbished. Its extensive crypt reopene3d in 2000.