The Bell Tower

Overall, the bell tower is 37 meters/170 feet high and has walls 2.13 meters/ 7 feet thick. Its first three levels were constructed as part of the wider church project in 1722. In 1750, work started on the height_ening of the tower with the addition of a further three tiers so as to accommodate the new bells.

Apparently designed by engineer/architect McOsterick, the tower culminates in a 'pepper pot' copper dome surmounted by a 4 meter/13 foot long golden salmon weather vane. The fish, which was added by 1770s, represents Cork's thriving salmon industry of the eighteenth century.

Both the church and the built with limestone and the tower itself are made of north and east sides composed locally sourced red of red sandstone, reflects the sandstone and limestone. geological layout of the Indeed, a local myth surrounding landscape. The describes the tower as limestone sides face the 'parti-coloured like its limestone stratum in people, red and white the south and west stands Shandon while the red Steeple: In effect, sandstone sides the design of the face the red tower, with the sandstone areas south and west to the north sides of the tower and east.

St. Anne's was built in 1722 on the churches due to the return to site of the church of St. Mary. Its the north, which still retains predecessor, which was destroyed its original box pews. The in the 1690 siege of Cork, was shallow curved apse is a itself the inheritor of a tradition of later addition and it has Christian worship stretching back been suggested that prior to 1300ad. to this the alter would have been located at the centre of the south wall.

St. Anne's reputed architect is John Coltsman. He also designed Christ Church, the North Gate The limestone for the Bridge and the South Gate church is likely to have Bridge. Its design, with the been sourced from simple rectangular plan, outcrops at Gillabbey shallow sanctuary and West or Windmill Road, while Tower, is typical of other the red sandstone county or provincial churches probably came from a of the era. However, some quarry on the adjacent architectural parallels have hillside to St. Anne's been drawn with Presbyterian.