Now used as an arts and cultural venue, the church and its graveyard are included in the Record of Protected Structures maintained by Cork City Council.
[6] The pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck was reputedly crowned in this church in 1497 and the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser married there in 1594.
[5] Substantially destroyed during the 1690 Siege of Cork, the remaining structures of the early medieval church were demolished in 1716 and the current neo-classical building was completed in the 1720s.
[6] Originally designed by John Coltsman,[8][9] the church was remodelled in the 1820s by George Richard Pain.
[5] The building hosted the Cork City and County Archives until 2005 when these were relocated to Blackpool.