Built in 1844 in Tudor-Gothic style, St. Malachy's was once described by former poet-laureate Sir John Betjeman as 'a many coloured cavern'. Its eye-catching exterior of red bricks topped with pink-painted octagonal turrets gives way to a whimsical plasterwork interior resembling a draped lace handkerchief. In 1868 the church's bell, the city's largest, was muffled with felt to stop the sound disturbing whiskey maturation at the adjacent Dunville distillery. Perhaps they should have called the whiskey Bell's.