Designed by one the greatest Victorian architects

St. Aidan’s Cathedral was designed by the gifted Victorian architect Augustus Welby Pugin (1812 – 1852) and was once the largest Cathedral in Ireland. Pugin is remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style and was so gifted that he designed everything from ceramics to stained glass windows and from wallpapers to textiles, and church plates. The pinnacle of his career, however, was when he drew all the interior designs for the new Houses of Parliament in London (Palace of Westminster). It is dedicated to a local 7th-century monk and is very similar to Pugin’s St Mary’s Cathedral in Killarney. Pugin designed many churches and buildings in England, Ireland, and even as far away as Australia.