Christ Church Cathedral
It felt really good to lay under the sun on such a green garden ...but this was before we discovered the rest of Ireland, with its desert fields and infinite horizons...
About this place:
Viking Dublin's cathedral was built on this site c. 1030, but the present shape of the cathedral dates from the 1180s.
The collapse of the south wall of the nave in 1562 necessitated a temporary rebuilding, which lasted until the 1870s! George Edmund Street, one of the foremost Victorian architects of the time, undertook a complete restoration of Christ Church between 1871-8, at the expense of a Dublin whiskey distiller, Henry Roe, who gave £230,000 (£23m today!) to save the cathedral.
Dublin, Baile Átha Cliath, IE
Discovered by Luca Torri
on 10 June 2008.
112 views.
