Christ Church, Cork

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.

Monumental stone from the crypt for the 1549 Mayor of Cork, Thomas Ronan, rediscovered in 1815. ( Dublin Penny Journal ; 1833)