Belfast - St Anne's Cathedral

To the north, by way of Royal Avenue and Church Street, is St Anne's Cathedral, the principal church of the (Anglican) Church of Ireland, begun in 1898 (architect Sir Thomas Drew). A neo-Romanesque building of the basilican type, it has three fine west doorways decorated with sculpture. The baptismal chapel has a mosaic ceiling made of hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of glass. In the chapel is the tomb of Sir Edward Carson (died 1935), leader of the Ulster Unionists.