Cathedrals · Northern Ireland
St Columb's Cathedral
St Columb's Cathedral in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
About
St Columb's Cathedral is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
St Columb's Cathedral in the walled city of Derry, Northern Ireland, is the cathedral church and episcopal see of the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Derry and Raphoe. It is also the parish church of Templemore. It is dedicated to Saint Columba, the Irish monk who established a Christian settlement in the area before being exiled from Ireland and introducing Christianity to Scotland and northern England. Built after the Reformation in Ireland, St Columb's is the first Anglican cathedral to have been built in Britain and Ireland after the Reformation and was the first non-Roman Catholic cathedral to be built in Western Europe.
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Background
History
The original site of the diocesan cathedral was in Templemore ( or "the Big Church"). Due to the violence of the Nine Years' War, the church was destroyed. It was first damaged by an accidental explosion on 24 April 1568, the church having been appropriated for the storage of gunpowder. On 16 April 1600, Sir Henry Docwra entered Derry with a force of 4,000 soldiers. He tore down the ruins of the Big Church and used its stones to build the walls and ramparts of the city. A small square stone tablet from An Teampall Mór is today fixed into the porch of the present structure. The Latin inscription reads "In Templo Vervs Devs Est Vere Colendvs" ("The True God is in His Temple and is to be truly…
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- Coordinates
- 54.9939, -7.3231
- Established
- 1633
- Official site
- www.stcolumbscathedral.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q2558810 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Columb's Cathedral (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Columb's Cathedral?
- St Columb's Cathedral is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9939°, -7.3231°.
- When was St Columb's Cathedral built?
- St Columb's Cathedral dates to 1633.