St Colman's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of Cobh. It is a large, elaborate neo-Gothic building, built between 1868 and 1915. The spire of the cathedral is 81 metres high, making it the fourth highest church in Ireland.
St Colman's Cathedral, dating from the 13th century, is the historic cathedral of the diocese of Cloyne, founded in 887. At the Reformation, the church became Protestant and the Catholics moved the seat of the diocese to Cobh Cathedral.
Holy Trinity Church, also known as Father Mathew Memorial Church, is a Roman Catholic church belonging to the Capuchin Friars Minor order. The church was built in the Regency Gothic style between 1832 and 1890. This long period was due to the great famine (1845-1852). Theobald Mathew, from whom the name of the church is derived, arrived in Cork in 1814 and worked hard to improve the conditions of the city's poor and initiated the present church. However, Father Matthew never saw the building completed as he died in 1856.
St Nicholas Church is a former Anglican church built in the 1850s. It was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Welland, with a bell tower by Atkins and transept windows by Hemmings. It was deconsecrated and its internal equipment emptied in the early 1990s.
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