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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Christchurch Place.
Map B3.
Tel 677 8099.
∑ christchurchdublin.ie
The Cat and the Rat Open check website for details.
A mummified cat and rat are dis played in the Closed 26 Dec. &
Crypt. Found in an organ pipe, they grew to liter- 5 12:45pm Mon–Fri, 11am &
ary fame after James Joyce wrote of their chase. 3:30pm Sun. 7 limited.
Transport
@ 50, 66, 77 & other routes.
. Crypt
This decorated
plate by Francis
Garthorne is part
of a collection
presented to
Christ Church
Cathedral in
1690 by King
William III to mark
his victory at the Battle
of the Boyne in 1690.

Romanesque Doorway
Leading to the south transept, this
ornately carved doorway is one of
the finest examples of 12th-century
Irish stonework.

1240 Completion of 1600 Shopkeepers 1689 King
stone cathedral rent crypt space James II of 1983 Cathedral
1038 Construction England ceases using
of original wooden worships in Synod Hall
Viking cathedral 1541 King Henry VIII alters cathedral
constitution of cathedral
1000 1200 1400 1600 1800
1186 The first 1742 Choir participates in 1871 Major
Anglo-Norman Meeting between first performance of rebuilding of
archbishop, John Lambert Simnel Handel’s Messiah the cathedral
Cumin, begins and the Earl 1487 Coronation of begins,
work on the of Kildare 10-year-old Lambert Simnel including Synod
new cathedral. (see p41) as King of England Hall and Bridge

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