Cork - St Ann's Shandon

Northwest of St Patrick's Bridge stands one of the city's landmarks, St Ann's Church, Shandon (1722). Its handsome tower - which looks rather like a telescope drawn out in three stages and is also popularly known as the "pepperpot" - is of particolored stone, red sandstone on the north and east sides, gray limestone on the other two. It contains eight bells cast by Abel Rudhall in 1750 and has a celebrated carillon. Although the tower is only 120ft/36m high it affords a wide panorama of the city thanks to the church's elevated situation.