St John the Baptist Cathedral, Sligo or more properly the Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist, Sligo but also known as Sligo Cathedral is one of two cathedral churches in the

diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh The United Dioceses of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh is a diocese of the Church of Ireland located in central Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. It is one of twelve Anglican dioceses in the island of Ireland. The geographic ...

(the other is St Fethlimidh's Cathedral, Kilmore) in the

Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Kirk o Airlann, ) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the secon ...

. It is situated in the town of Sligo, Ireland in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. The church was built as St John's Church in the mid-18th century to the design of architect Richard Cassels, who adopted a

basilica In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's Forum (Roman), forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building ...

pattern from Roman architecture.

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Sligo Cathedral Group (Church of Ireland)

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* {{Cathedrals of the Church of Ireland Sligo Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Sligo (town) 18th-century churches in Ireland 18th-century Church of Ireland church buildings

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