St. Francis Church is a Franciscan church opened and consecrated in 1953 after the old 19th-century church was considered unsafe. The new church was designed by the architects A. E. Jones in the Byzantine style. The construction of the new church was soon followed by the construction of the new convent.
The Roman church of St Mary's Priory was built in 1832, but the recognisable hexastyle Ionic portico was not added until 1861. The church was designed by Cork architect Kearns Deane, and the portico was added by architects Deane and Woodward. The imposing scale of the building makes it a notable addition to the docks. This church is part of a group of Roman Catholic buildings with the priory buildings to the north.
St. Finbarr's Cathedral is an Irish Anglican cathedral built between 1865 and 1879. The three spires of the cathedral are one of the symbols of Cork. It is named after St. Finbarr, the patron saint of the city. The present cathedral is at least the third on this site: a medieval cathedral existed but was damaged during the Siege of Cork in 1689-1690, and a small neoclassical cathedral was built on the site by Bishop Peter Browne in 1735. It was demolished in 1865 to make way for the present cathedral.
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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