St Audoen's Catholic Church
Neoclassical church of thick black-calp walls, its collapsed dome long replaced by a flat ceiling.
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This guide to St Audoen's Catholic Church in Dublin opens in 1880, when the great dome over the crossing suddenly collapsed and was replaced by the flat ceiling still overhead today. From there it reaches back to 1841, when the cornerstone went in on High Street in the city's old Liberties district, with architect Patrick Byrne and founding donor Daniel O'Connell among those behind it. You'll hear how the granite portico out front was added decades later by George Ashlin, and how the black calp walls give the building a fortress-like look from Cook Street. Listen for how the congregation here has changed again in recent decades.
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