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St. Nicholas Church, Galway City, County Galway - Window

(handwritten on back of image): Galway: St. Nicholas: detail of W. window of S. aisle

Tags: Architectural, Church architecture Ireland Galway (County), County Galway, Decoration and ornament, Galway (Ireland: County), Galway City, Ireland, Ireland), St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church (Galway, wild atlantic way

St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, south transept, east wall, Joyce tomb, base

Base of tomb niche jamb. Moulding comprises from top down: grooved roll, bell, flat surface at right angle, hollow chamfer, quadrant, flat surface, bell, flat surface at right angle, quadrant, hollow chamfer, plinth. The mouldings here are unusual, the two lower elements protrude from the bell as two square blocks with mouldings at their front…

Tags: Architecture, etc., franciscan, Funerary monuments, Galway (county), Galway (Ireland) - Buildings, Gothic - Ireland, hollow, Moldings, Quadrant, roll moldings, structures, wild atlantic way

St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, south transept, east wall, Joyce tomb, capital frieze

Capital frieze of Joyce tomb, which runs horizontally between the jamb and arch. Moulding comprises, from top down: roll, bell running into roll, free-standing fillet, roll, fillet, hollow chamfer, roll, hollow chamfer. This tomb is thought to be very late, and have almost classical mouldings.

Tags: Architecture, Collegiate churches, etc., fillets (moldings), Funerary monuments, Galway, Galway (Ireland) - Buildings, Gothic - Ireland, hollow, Lombard Street, Moldings, roll moldings, structures, wild atlantic way

St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, south transept, east wall, Joyce tomb, chest

Moulding of tomb chest, moulding comprises: freestanding fillet, double ogee. Ogees are unusual and often occur in conjuction with Flamoboyant tracery.

Tags: Architecture, Collegiate churches, etc., Funerary monuments, Galway (county), Galway (Ireland) - Buildings, Gothic - Ireland, Moldings, Ogee, structures, wild atlantic way

St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, south transept, east wall, Joyce tomb, mullion

Mullion of Flamboyant tracery of tomb niche. Moulding comprises: central roll-and fillet flanked at either side by hollow chamfers.

Tags: Architecture, Collegiate churches, etc., Funerary monuments, Galway, Galway (Ireland) - Buildings, Gothic - Ireland, hollow, Lombard Street, Moldings, roll-and-fillet moldings, structures, wild atlantic way

St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, west exterior wall, door, jamb and arch

West door that terminates central aisle, centre of three gabled front. Broad splay. Moulding fron intrados comprises: chamfer, hollow, roll-and-fillet, hollow chamfer, roll-and-fillet, hollow chamfer, roll-and-fillet, hollow chamfer, roll-and fillet, hollow, chamfer. The mouldings here are broad, and similar examples of this roll and fillet are…

Tags: Architecture, Collegiate churches, etc., Galway, Galway (Ireland) - Buildings, Gothic - Ireland, Gothic doorways, hollow, Lombard Street, Moldings, roll-and-fillet moldings, structures, wild atlantic way

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, exterior - view from the north - east

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of St. Patrick's Cathedral on the Rock of Cashel from the north - east showing the nave with buttress on the north elevation; northern transept with gableted niches, three lancet lights surmounted by a rose window, two side chapels and round tower at the north - eastern corner; central crossing tower; west tower.…

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower, corbels

Photograph by Roger Stalley. A general view of the crossing tower wall in which two of the corbels are housed and a detailed view of each of the four corbel.