The ministry and development of Derry’s Cathedral
“If stones could speake Then London’s prayse should sounde Who built this Church And cittie from the ground.” The words of inscription on the foundation stone of St Columb’s Cathedral in Derry resonate with almost 400 years of history of the city’s oldest building. It is the first church of its kind built after the Reformation and has the rare distinction of having been dedicated both as a cathedral and as a parish church, on the same day in 1634, the building work having taken place between 1628 and 1633.
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William Morton
Dean of Derry (1997)