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Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - chapter house
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of the Chapter House showing doorway with receding orders on chamfered bases, rib - vaulted ceiling and a selection of moulded stone fragments including scalloped capitals, voussoirs and corbels.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - north choir elevation, window rere - arch capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of a shaft between rere - arch and wall. The whitewash to the right is on the splay of the lancet. The jamb is moulded with a large central hollow (to house a now missing endélit shaft) flanked to the right side by roll - and - fillets and further hollows. The stiff - leaf capital supports arch mouldings formed…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - choir, north elevation windows (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley.View of north elevation of choir showing rere - arch of quatrefoil window with with round head, rounded sill and jamb treated with engnaged shafts, bases and foliate capitals. Surmounted by a corbel, this window fills the spandrel between two hood moulded lancets, one of which is blocked up. The other lancet is also…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - north choir elevation, windows (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north elevation of choir showing rere - arches of two quatrefoil windows with round heads and rounded sills. Jambs are treated with shafts, bases and foliate capitals. They fill the spandrels between two hood moulded lancet windows also treated with foliate capitals below arch and hood mouldings comprised of…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - north transept, west elevation, window (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of lancet window below a line of corbels in west elevation of north transept. Moulded rere - arch of window has two differing bell capitals, one with nailhead ornament, the other with stiff - leaf. These capitals sit atop engaged shafts moulded at either side with a shallow hollow. Hood is treated with an ogee…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - north transept, north elevation, lancet windows (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of the junction between the rere - arches of two (of three) deeply splayed lancet windows in the north wall of the north transept. The arches have a stiff - leaf foliage label stop, stiff - leaf bell capital and roll - and - fillet arch mouldings. The endélit shaft below the capital is now missing. The curve of…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - north transept, north elevation, windows
Photograph by Roger Stalley. General view of the upper part of the north elevation of north transept. The triplet of deeply splayed lancets have rere - arches treated with roll - and - fillets. These are supported by endélit shafts (some of which are missing) punctuated with annulets and topped with capitals of varied design including stiff -…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - window (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of rere - arch of lancet window treated with an angle shaft flanked by hollows surmounted by a stiff - leaf bell capital, in turn supporting moulded arch and hood. Arch and hood moulded with hollows, rolls and roll - and - fillets. Hood terminates in label stop comprised of a ball of stiff - leaf foliage.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - north transept, north elevation, lancet windows (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of the junction between the rere - arches of two (of three) deeply splayed lancet windows in the north elevation of the north transept. The arches have a stiff - leaf foliage label stop, moulded bell capital and roll - and - fillet arch mouldings. The curve of the right hand arch, which is the central one of…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - east end presbytery, north elevation, stringcourse (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of east end of presbytery showing corner of north and east elevations with a stringcourse moulded with roll - and - fillet moulded and upper hollow.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - presbytery east end, north elevation, tomb recess & stringcourse
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north elevation of extended east end presbytery showing tomb recess and stringcourse. Recess has water - holding base (endélit shaft missing) and mouldings with vertical line of dogtooth ornament. A small segment of roll - and - fillet moulded stringcourse is also visible at the angle of the north and east…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, Collon, County Louth, interior - north transept chapel, pier respond
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north transept showing north pier respond of south - eastern transept chapel. Roll - and - fillet arch mouldings rest on water - holding bases on a chamfered plinth.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - lavabo, arch and capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of lavabo arch and capital. The damaged capital shows remains of affronted winged birds or hybrids. The abacus is plan. The string - course above the capital is broken. The soffit is moulded with a triplet of roll - and - fillets, each separated by a fillet. The soffit rolls are separated from the outer orders by a…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Capital of the lavabo showing acanthus foliate carving with decorative drill holes below. Capital is surmounted by a roll - and - fillet abacus; round shaft of the jamb is missing but others visible in background.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital and vault rib
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of the lavabo showing twin round shafts separated by an arris fillet and a stringcourse at abacus height; the acanthus carved bell capital is the springing point for a vault rib.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - north transept, tomb recess
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of interior of north transept showing part of a tomb recess. Outer order, comprised of a roll - and - fillet moulding, rests on chamfered base with pyramid stops. The inner order of the recess has a round water - holding base (en délit shaft missing) flanked at outer face vertical band of dogtooth ornament, both…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo capital, abacus and shaft
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Capital of the lavabo with acanthus foliate carving in the bell surmounted by a roll - and - fillet abacus all resting upon a jamb with a round shaft. Richly moulded soffit is visible at the top of the image.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - chapter house, buttress
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Buttress on the exterior of chapter house showing base course formed of plinth with upper concave moulding surmounted by a filleted roll.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - chapter house, buttress
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Angle buttress on the exterior of chapter house showing base course with convave moulding at top of plinth surmounted by a filleted roll.