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Attached six-bay gable-fronted chapel with two-tiered long walls and semi-basement, built 1807-14, restored 1989. Attached to medieval Record Tower at west gable end. Pitched slate roof with diminishing courses, cast-iron and lead decorative ridge with alternating trefoil and inverted V-enrichments, ashlar limestone bellcote to west gable, battlemented ashlar limestone gables and parapets with crocketed pinnacles to buttresses, and cast-iron downpipes with moulded cast-iron hopper heads. Flat roofs to chancel and corridor to west. Coursed ashlar calp limestone walling, having two-tier buttresses, moulded plinth to basement and parapet strings. Pointed-arch openings to each tier, and square-headed openings to basement, containing triple-light windows with moulded mullions and transoms, hood-mouldings on carved label-stops to upper tier, and four-light stained-glass east window with enriched hood-moulding surmounted by carved crown. Shallow pointed-arch opening to east end, set in chamfered recess, with moulded label-moulding with stops in form of carved heads (St. Patrick and Brian Boru), four-panel moulded hardwood double-leaf door with fanlight containing quatrefoil, and round central panel surmounted by rectangular inscribed panel with angular label-stop. Interior has galleries to nave and aisles, with two-tier chancel to west and two-storey corridor to east. Carved wood interior, painted to resemble stone, with slender clustered columns supporting groin vault over nave and fan vaults and pendants over aisles. Carved oak gallery fronts with viceregal and archiepiscopal pews facing each other in north and south galleries. Nave chancel and vestibule vaults spring from large busts of angels, evangelists and saints, life-size figures of Faith, Hope and Charity above east window. Carved coats-of-arms of Lord Lieutenants to gallery fronts, bounded by friezes and traceried aprons with vegetal ornament. Diagonally laid square Portland stone slab flooring with black marble margins and white Portland stone at intersections to aisles. Carved gables to hardwood pews between columns, segmental steps with moulded bull-nose rising to altar in chancel with diamond-pattern flooring to similar detail as aisles. Carved oak altar and side panels to chancel. Organ pipes in carved oak housing to west end. Located on site sloping from west to east, with Lower Yard to north and Ship Street Gate to south, and abutting Record Tower to west. Wrought-iron railings with cast-iron finials on ashlar limestone plinth wall stepping down from west to east on north side.
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