The Lewis Pieces at Church

The last time we saw the Lewis chess pieces on this blog was a post titled, From Norway to the British Museum (February 2022). It started, 'The Lewis chess pieces are a recurring theme on this blog'. The embedded video on that post has disappeared ('This video is private'), but there are links to other posts about the Lewis pieces, the oldest from 2008.

Waterford © Flickr user Andrew Green under Creative Commons.

The description of the photo says,

Chess and Christ Church Cathedral

That is enough information to locate Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford (patrickcomerford.com; 'the finest 18th century church in Ireland'). The blog post starts,

Waterford is unique as an Irish city, not in having two cathedrals, but in having two cathedrals, one Anglican and one Roman Catholic, with the same formal dedication and designed by the same architect.

The post doesn't mention the giant Lewis chess set, but the blog does have a 'chess' category pointing to a half-dozen other posts. The most relevant to chess history is Hidden stories of Jewish Bratislava: 2, Richard Réti, chess grandmaster, author (December 2019). Along with many details of Reti's life, it includes a photo from 'an exhibition in the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava'.