Cathedral of Christ the King

Cathedral of Christ the King is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located close to the centre of Mullingar subsequent to the Royal Canal, St. Mary's CBS, Colaiste Mhuire and overlooks the nearby Garda Síochana station on College Street. The cathedral is both the cathedral church of the diocese of Meath and the predominant centre of worship inside the catholic parish of Mullingar, together with components of counties Meath and Westmeath. Designed to update the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, making plans started out in 1920. William Byrne & Sons of Dublin designed the cathedral to be basillican in shape and renaissance in fashion.

Its specific twin towers, surmounted with the aid of bronze crosses, upward thrust to a height of about 55 metres. It turned into built with a seating ability of 5,000. Building commenced in March 1933 and the muse stone was laid on 6 August of that 12 months with the aid of Bishop Thomas Mulvany. Murphy of Dublin have been the developers, even as plenty of the artistic ornament paintings was finished by means of Earley & Co.