churches historical dublin

St Werburgh's Church was built in the 12th Century and it was called after the King of Merica's daughter. A rebuliding of the church was carried out after a fire in the 18th century.
 
Denomination: Church of Ireland.

Morning Service on Sunday's at 10am

Admission into the church is free.
Donations are welcome....

On the north-east corner of Parnell Square is the Abbey Presbyterian Church (1864), usually known as Findlater's Church after the wealthy merchant who paid for the building. Its graceful neo-Gothic spire is one of Dublin's landmarks....

Saint Mary's Church in Mary Street (1697, by Thomas Burgh) is the only surviving seventeenth-century church in Dublin.

John Wesley preached his first sermon in Ireland here in 1747.

The building is now an arts centre.

On the other side of Capel Street, Little Mary Street leads to the colourful Dublin Corporation Fruit and Vegetable Market....

West from Christ Church runs the ancient High Street of Dublin. Here was situated the High Cross of the old Norman city from which government decrees, papal bulls and decrees of excommunication were read....

In the church of the Carmelite Fathers in Whitefriar Street lies the body of St Valentine, whose feast day on 14th February is now celebrated with cards, chocolates, tokens of love and sentiments not usually associated with the more chaste saints.

The body, which formerly lay in the cemetery of St Hippolytus in Rome, was presented to the Fathers in 1836 by Pope Gregory XVI.

The church itself, designed by George Papworth in 1825, stands on the site of the thirteenth-century chur...

Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church stands on the site of a pre-Reformation Carmelite Priory (1539). Nothing remains of the older buildings. The foundation stone was laid in 1825. In 1856 and 1868 the church was considerably extended and enlarged. The architect, George Papworth (1781-1855) was also the designer of Dublin's Pro Cathedral.

St Valentine : The church contains the remains of St Valentine given by Pope Gregory XVI to Fr Spratt from the cemetery of St Hippolytus, Rome, i...

Dalkey Island 7th Century Christian Church is a small church dedicated to St. Begnet.
This was later used as a living quaters for the builders of Martello Tower and Gun Battery in 1804.

People can visit the island by boat in the summer months, by asking the local fisher men at the nearby harbours....

The church was founded by the Anglo-Normans and dedicated to the Norman saint, St Audoen o Rouen. It was one of a group of Guild Chapels, and one of the leading churches in Dublin in its day. Public announcements, such as the Pronouncements of Papal Bulls, were made here, and public penances performed.

The west doorway probably dates to around 1200, but the lower portion of the tower above it is largely 17th century in date. The present church consists only of the nave of the orig...

SORD COLUMBCILLE is the ancient name of this town, meaning the well of pure water of the dove of the Church. The "Dove" means St. Columba, (from "Colombe" a dove). His sanctity caused him to be called the "Dove of the Church" (from the Latin "Cella"). The well is the one which the Saint caused to be made, which can still be found, near this place, a well of pure water, used to this day.

St. Columba founded the town about 560 A.D. He left Ireland in 563 A.D. to go to Iona, so the t...

The church was dedicated to a saintly daughter of Lenin who lived in the early 7th century. The southern portion of the church is the oldest. It consists of an apparently contemporary nave and chancel, with a rounded chancel arch and flat-headed doorway with a roman cross underneath it.

It possibly dates to the 11th or 12th century. Probably in the 16th century, though perhaps considerably earlier, the northern aisle was built alongside the existing church and it contains a round-hea...