The North Aisle

On the walls of the north aisle are many interesting memorial tablets. The two oldest are in memory of the Tomkins/Elvin families: erected in 1678 in memory of Alexander Tomkins who died in 1642 and to John Elvin, Mayor of the City who died in 1676 aged 102 years. 

The other fine example of an old memorial is the one erected to the memory of Hugh Edwards, Mayor of the City in 1671 and died in 1672. Beneath this memorial is a splendid example of mortuary symbols of the same period. Between these two old memorials is a more modern example of a monument to the memory of Colonel Baker and Captain Browning who died during the Siege of 1689. This memorial was erected in 1933. 

 The stained glass windows are from the Victorian era and commemorate various famous people connected with the Cathedral including one to the Reverend George Walker, Governor of the City during the latter part of the Siege in 1689 and was killed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. At the top of the north aisle is the north door and the organ loft. Over the north door is a fine memorial to Capt. McNeil Boyd of Shipquay Street who was drowned while trying to save some of his men on the ship H.M.S. Ajax in Dublin Bay. There is a statue to him in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.  This aisle contains the War Memorials to the men and women who fell during the 1914-18 and 1939-45 war.