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St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, exterior - south transept, buttress - gabled niches
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of south - east corner of the south transept showing gabled niches in the clasping buttress bounded above and below by stringcourse and topped by an octagonal turret of ashlar masonry. The gables terminate in head carved label stops and the roll - and - fillet moulded arches are carried on filleted shafts with bell…
Ardfert Cathedral, Ardfert, Co Kerry, interior - east end of choir
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of east end of choir showing graded triple lancet windows with banded shafts and foliate capitals, hood mouldings and label stops. A piscina flanks the outermost lancets, each one currently containing an effigy of a bishop holding a crozier. South elevation shows nine trefoil - headed lancet windows flanked by…
Tintern Abbey, Saltmills, New Ross, Co Wexford, exterior - presbytery, east end from the north - east
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of east end of presbytery from the north - east showing lancet window and angle buttresses; north elevation of the presbytery with clasping buttresses and corbel table above outline of lancet windows (built up); crossing tower with crow - stepped gables, stepped buttress at north - east corner and stair turret at…
Cistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, interior - Romanesque pier capital with decorative carving
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Decorative carving on the capital of the south - west crossing pier showing beaded abstract geometric design. Behind this is another capital with scallops and beading.
St Mary's Parish Church, New Ross, Co Wexford, exterior - south wall of chancel, east side of south transept with chapels
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View from east of south elevation of chancel showing five lancet windows and entrance portal. East elevation of south transept shows sexfoil window in centre and two lancet windows flanking the side chapels which have paired lancet windows.
St Mary's Parish Church, New Ross, Co Wexford, interior - south transept, south elevation
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of south transept from the north showing triple lancet windows in south elevation, single lancet window in east elevation and two - bay arcade between main transept space and western flanking aisle. Arcade has cylindrical piers with bell capitals, water - holding bases and chamfered arch mouldings. Lancet windows…
St Mary's Parish Church, New Ross, Co Wexford, interior - south transept, east elevation, twin eastern side chapels
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of south transept from the west showing paired side chapels beyond east elevation. Two bay arcade of transept has cylindrical piers with bell capitals, water - holding bases and chamfered soffit mouldings. Arches to side chapels have similar chamfered mouldings and a circular sexfoil window in the spandrel…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, exterior - choir, north transept and round tower from north - east
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View from the north - east of north elevation of the choir, crossing tower, north transept showing two external transept chapels, and round tower. Choir has single lancet windows with quatrefoil windows in the spandrels, transept chapels have paired lancet windows as does crossing tower.
Cistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, exterior - cloister, pier - figural carving
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of cloister showing round chamfered arches carried on 'dumb - bell' piers with bell capitals, water - holding bases and figural carvings. The 'dumb - bell' pier, here with round pseudo - colonnettes, later became a standard feature of Irish cloister designs. The foreground pier depicts a female figure in…
Cistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, exterior, cloister - pier sculpture
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of sculptured bracket on dumb - bell pier in cloister depicting a man in contemporary dress.
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, exterior - nave, west gable and south aisle - viewed from south - east
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of nave, west gable and south aisle from the south - east. West gable has triple lancet window with rectangular and sexfoil rose windows overhead. Lancets set in deep splays have rere - arches treated with shafts and annulets, foliate and head carved capitals and water - holding bases. Surrounding hood moulding is…
Cistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, interior, chancel - sedilia
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Sedilia of three round - headed niches highlighted with bands of chevron ornament.
Franciscan Friary, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny - exterior, corbel
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Corbel showing bearded male figural carving, supporting rib of tower vault.
St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny - ex situ, carved stone (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Fragment of carved stone shaft(ex situ) showing foliate design to one side.
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, exterior - nave, west end
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of nave and west gable from the east showing triple lancet window with rectangualr and sexfoil rose windows overhead. Lancets set in deep splays have rere - arches treted with shafts and annulets, foliate and head carved capitals and water - holding bases. Surrounding hood moulding is roll - and - fillet design…
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, interior - nave, south aisle, window, east elevation
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Window in east elevation of south aisle of nave showing twin lancets with trefoil heads and a quatrefoil window above and roll - and - fillet stringcourse below. The arches have foliate cusps and dogtooth mouldings; capitals have stiff - leaf foliage carvings; roll - and - fillet hood mouldings terminate in foliate and…
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, interior - nave, north elevation, compound pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Quatrefoil pier of north elevation of nave arcade showing filleted shafts with bell capital, water - holding base and plinth and chamfered arch mouldings
Hore Abbey, Cashel, Co Tipperary - interior, piscina and aumbry
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of piscina and aumbry in the chancel showing chamfered trefoil headed arch and capital with stiff - leaf foliage .
Tintern Abbey, Saltmills, New Ross, Co Wexford, exterior - north - west view of presbytery, crossing tower, nave
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the presbytery, crossing tower and first two bays of the nave from the north - west. The presbytery elevation is supported by angle and clasping buttresses and shows the outlines of three lancet windows (now built up) with a corbel table of carved heads above it. The crossing tower has a stepped buttress at the…
St Mary's Parish Church, New Ross, Co Wexford, interior - south transept, lancet window in east elevation
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of upper portion of lancet window in east elevation of south transept showing arch with filleted roll moulding, hood moulding with dogtooth ornament and a hood stop carved with a smiling human face.