The Medieval Museum is located on Cathedral Square, Waterford. It boosts being ‘Irelands only purpose- built medieval museum’. The U-shape structure built in 2013 is owned by Waterford Treasures, and features a Choristers Hall (13th century) and Wine Vault (15th century). Altogether, there are four floor levels to the building. The Choristers Hall was built circa 1270 by Bishop Stephen Fulbourn (d.1288). The hall comprises of golden coloured Dundry stone from England; the same type of stone used in the recent construction at the front of the museum. Originally, the floors above it would have been used as a residence (a Deanery) by the Dean of Waterford and other clergymen as they managed an adjacent 11th century church (where the current Christ Church Cathedral now stands). Unfortunately, the upper floors of the Deanery are assumed to have been destroyed by a fire in 1520, with only the ground floor Choristers Hall remaining. The Dean moved into a neighbouring building which had been bestowed decades earlier by a former mayor and merchant James Rice in 1468. In 1840, a garden was created on the roof of the hall, probably by the then Dean of Waterford – Ussher Lee. The garden was connected by spiral stairs via the tower located in the present-day reception area of the museum. The adjourned Wine Vault was built around 1440 by James Rice’s father – Peter Rice. Peter was a wealthy wine merchant and mayor. After his death, James gave the vault to the church in 1468. The museum features two galleries displaying exhibits, one on the first floor, and the other on the second floor. On display are the Great Charter Roll, a fourteen metre legal document created by the Anglo-Norman people of Waterford, dated to between 1372/1373, and also on view are the vestments commissioned by Dean John Collyn in 1468. The vestments are made from Italian silk and embroidered with gold. During the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland (1649-1653) the vestments were hidden beneath the floor of a medieval cathedral. They were luckily recovered when the cathedral was being demolished in 1773. Added to the experience of the museum are two audio-visual theatres, on each of the upper floors, next to the galleries.