St Fethlimidh's Cathedral, Anglican cathedral in Kilmore, Ireland
St Fethlimidh's Cathedral in Kilmore is a cruciform Church of Ireland building of 1858–1860, designed by William Slater in a neo-Gothic style. It is 35 m long, with a 15.5 m nave, 4 m aisles and a 10.5 m chancel, and a square central tower rising 30.5 m outside. Dark local limestone is faced with lighter stone from Dungannon, and a late 12th-century Romanesque doorway (c.1170) serves as the vestry door in the north chancel wall.
The cathedral was built in 1860 to replace a smaller earlier church. It reuses a section from an even older medieval abbey site, showing its connections to different periods of church history in the area.
The cathedral holds an original early translation of the Bible into Classical Irish, created in the 17th century. This manuscript shows how clergy of that era worked to make religious texts accessible to their communities.
You can find the cathedral in Kilmore and visit it when services are not taking place. The building has been thoroughly restored in recent years, so the structure is sound and all areas are in good condition.
The 12th-century Romanesque doorway set into the north chancel wall, now the vestry door, was probably moved from the demolished Augustinian priory at Drumlane; some local accounts instead link it to the Trinity Island priory church. The cathedral also keeps an original first edition of William Bedell's translation of the Old Testament into Classical Irish.
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