St Audoen's Church and Visitor Centre

PricingFreeFree for all visitors

Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free for everyone; staff often offer a free guided tour on arrival. No membership card is needed.

ParkingNo car park

Arrive on foot, by bike or by public transport.

Parking details

OPW names no car park and gives bus, bicycle and walking directions only: 'Located close to Christ Church Cathedral'. The nearest public car parks are Q-Park Christchurch on Werburgh Street (about 270 m) and Q-Park Four Courts on Usher's Quay (about 300 m); their tariffs are not stored.

Driving pin: the visitor centre entrance on the south side of the medieval church, reached through the churchyard gate on High Street at Cornmarket; OPW's own pin sits between the two churches on the footprint of the Catholic St Audoen's, which is a different building.

About

Nestled in the heart of the walled medieval city, close to Christ Church Cathedral, St Audoen's is the only remaining medieval parish church in Dublin, dedicated to the seventh-century bishop of Rouen and patron saint of Normandy. The church was crucial to the life of the medieval city: here papal bulls were pronounced and public penances carried out. OPW's visitor centre in the Guild Chapel of St Anne houses an award-winning exhibition on the importance of St Audoen's to medieval Dublin, with a replica of one of the church's bells, which are more than six hundred years old. Visitors can examine the part of the church still used by the Church of Ireland and the stunning fifteenth-century tomb of Baron Portlester, who died in 1496, and his wife. Entry is free and the staff often offer a free guided tour, which reviewers praise for its depth and enthusiasm; allow up to an hour. The centre opens from late March to early November.

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Visitor Centre currently open.

Until 5 Nov: Daily 09:30–17:30
From 6 Nov: Closed

Today, Saturday 24 October

St Audoen's Church and Visitor Centre09:30 – 17:30

Free entry

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open daily from 27 March to 5 November 2026, 09:30 to 17:30 with last entry at 16:45; closed for the winter from 6 November until the 2027 season, whose dates are not yet published. The visitor centre is currently open. Allow under an hour, longer if you take up the staff's offer of a guided tour.

Partial access for visitors with disabilities. Toilets; no cafe or shop. St Audoen's Park beside the church, with the medieval city wall and St Audoen's Arch below it, is Dublin City Council's and reached down steps. Assistance dogs only.

Photo: St Audoen's medieval church with its battlemented tower, seen from the churchyard garden beside the visitor centre entrance. Spike, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_St._Audoen%27s_Church_01.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.