St Feidhlimidh Cathedral

Cathedral in Cavan, Ireland, dating from 1855–1865

Freestanding Decorated Gothic Revival cruciform-plan Church of Ireland cathedral, built 1860, comprising three-bay nave with side aisles, single-bay transepts, two-bay choir and a crossing tower with a engaged five-stage hexagonal-plan stair tower, vestry at intersection of north transept and chancel having translocated 12th century Romanesque doorway, funeral porch to south added 1869. Slate roof with stone eaves corbels, pyramidal roof to tower, with conical stone roof to stair tower. Replacement copper rainwater goods. Squared and snecked limestone walls with lighter Dungannon sandstone dressings. Stepped buttresses flanking gabled front of nave, between bays of side aisles and chancel, angled buttresses to corners. High level rose window to west front of four trefoil roundels above paired pointed arch west windows having sandstone tracery with trefoil-headed twin lights and multiple-foil roundels under hood mouldings with foliate and carved head stops. Smaller twin-light tracery windows to aisles, larger to transept gables, triple-light tracery windows to choir, and five-light Decorated tracery to east window. Triple hexafoil lights to clerestorey. Stained glass windows. Pointed arch entrance portal with engaged colonnettes to stepped reveals, carved stone to tympanum with episcopal coat of arms, and floral motifs over paired shoulder-arched doors. Pointed arch portal to fu

Type:
Cathedral

Period:
1855–1865

Where:
Cavan, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.98°N, 7.41°W

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