 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
| Newry Cathedral | |
|---|---|
| Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Colman | |
 | |
  Newry Cathedral Shown within Northern Ireland | |
| 54°10′29″N 6°20′16″W / 54.174744°N 6.337652°W | |
| Location | Newry, County Down |
| Address | Hill Street, Newry |
| Country | United Kingdom Northern Ireland |
| Language(s) | English, Polish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Tradition | Roman Rite |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | Saint Patrick's Cathedral |
| Founder(s) | Bishop Thomas O'Kelly |
| Dedicated | 6 May 1829 |
| Consecrated | 21 July 1925 |
| Relics held |
|
| Events | 150th Centenary - 21 July 1979 |
| Past bishop(s) | John McAreavey |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | Grade A listed |
| Designated | 26 February 1976 |
| Architect(s) | Thomas Duff George Ashlin |
| Architectural type | Gothic Revival |
| Style | Gothic |
| Years built | 1825-1829, 1888-1890, 1904-1909 |
| Groundbreaking | 1825 |
| Completed | 1909 |
| Construction cost | £8,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Nave length | 58 m (190 ft) |
| Nave width | 41 m (135 ft) |
| Nave height | 18 m (59 ft) |
| Number of towers | 1 |
| Tower height | 46 m (151 ft) |
| Materials | Newry Granite |
| Bells | 11 (Colman, Francis of Assisi) |
| Administration | |
| Presbytery | Newry Parochial House, 38-40 Hill Street Newry |
| Province | Armagh |
| Metropolis | Armagh |
| Archdiocese | Armagh |
| Diocese | Dromore (since 6th Century) |
| Parish | Newry Cathedral Parish |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Sede Vacante |
| Dean | Canon Francis Brown |
| Canon(s) | Canon Liam Stevenson
Canon Francis Brown Canon Gerald Powell (Honorary Canons) Canon Francis Boyle Canon Michael Hackett Canon Aidan Hamill Canon John Kearney Canon Frank Kearney |
The Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Colman or Newry Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Newry, Northern Ireland. It acts as the seat of the Bishop of Dromore, and the Mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, over 200,000 people visited the cathedral each year.[citation needed][needs update] The cathedral sits on Newry's Main Street and is a Grade A listed building.[1]
The cathedral replaced St Mary's Church (the Old Chapel), which had been constructed by Bishop Lennan in 1789 and which, for forty years, doubled as both a parish church and quasi-cathedral, two bishops having received episcopal consecration there.[2] Newry Cathedral, dedicated under the joint patronage of St Patrick & St Colman, was designed by the city's greatest native architect Thomas Duff; work began in 1825, with the basic building completed in 1829.[3] Built of local granite, it was the first Catholic cathedral in Ireland opened after Catholic Emancipation.
Work continued to enlarge and beautify the cathedral at various stages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the tower and transept were added in 1888 and the nave was extended in 1904 under the supervision of Bishop Henry O'Neill.[3]
- ^ History, Department of Communities website. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "Newry Cathedral | Newry Journal". Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Newry Cathedral of St. Patrick and St. Colman". discovernorthernireland.com. Retrieved 15 November 2020.