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Freestanding Decorated Gothic Revival cruciform-plan Church of Ireland cathedral, built 1860, comprising three-bay nave with side aisles, single-bay transepts, two-bay choir and a crossing tower with a engaged five-stage hexagonal-plan stair tower, vestry at intersection of north transept and chancel having translocated 12th century Romanesque doorway, funeral porch to south added 1869. Slate roof with stone eaves corbels, pyramidal roof to tower, with conical stone roof to stair tower. Replacement copper rainwater goods. Squared and snecked limestone walls with lighter Dungannon sandstone dressings. Stepped buttresses flanking gabled front of nave, between bays of side aisles and chancel, angled buttresses to corners. High level rose window to west front of four trefoil roundels above paired pointed arch west windows having sandstone tracery with trefoil-headed twin lights and multiple-foil roundels under hood mouldings with foliate and carved head stops. Smaller twin-light tracery windows to aisles, larger to transept gables, triple-light tracery windows to choir, and five-light Decorated tracery to east window. Triple hexafoil lights to clerestorey. Stained glass windows. Pointed arch entrance portal with engaged colonnettes to stepped reveals, carved stone to tympanum with episcopal coat of arms, and floral motifs over paired shoulder-arched doors. Pointed arch portal to funeral porch with stepped reveals and engaged colonnettes. Relocated round-headed carved stone Romanesque doorway to vestry having engaged colonettes to stepped reveals with chevron arches, decorated with animal foliate and geometric motifs. Shoulder-arched door opening to stair tower. Sheeted timber doors with decorative ironmongery. Interior having pointed arches on clustered columns to crossing and nave arcade. Stained glass windows depicting biblical scenes by several stained glass studio including Meyer & Co of Munich, Ward & Hughes of London, Clayton & Bell of London and An Túr Gloine, Dublin. Carved timber altar of 1937, cathedra and reredos carved by Forsyth, London, stone font and pulpit by Purdy and Outhwaite, Dublin, Milton tiles to chancel. Altar, waincotting, tiles, and chairs in south transept, and bookcase in north transept from Bishop’s Palace. Stone spiral stairs to stair tower. Set back from the road, bounded by rubble stone walls with crenellated copings having square-profile rendered piers flanking wrought-iron gates.
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