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Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - south - east crossing pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of south - east crossing pier, diamond - shaped in plan, showing large filleted shafts resting on octagonal chamfered bases. Evidence of four separate, successive building phases can be identified by the base moulding, shafts, responds and plinths.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - south transept, chapels
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of chapels in the eastern wall of the south transept seen from from the east. Square centre chapel is flanked by two with apsidal terminations. South elevation of south - east crossing pier and southern trasept pier also visible showing orders of filleted rolls resting on octagonal chamfered bases.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of lavabo showing twin round shafts separated by an arris fillet; an acanthus foliate carved bell capital punctuates a roll - and - fillet stringcourse.
Claregalway Franciscan Friary, north chancel wall, tomb niche, arch
Tomb niche in north nave wall. Moulding at inner surface has cusps, and from these outward comprises: fillet, three-quarter hollow, fillet, quadrant, fillet, chamfer (can be read as roll with two fillets), chamfer, right-angled rebate, quadrant, fillet, three-quarter hollow, fillet, quadrant, fillet, chamfer (can be read as roll with two fillets),…
Claregalway Franciscan Friary, north chancel wall, tomb niche, base
Tomb niche, base of jamb. Moulding from top down comprises: roll, roll, chamfer, plinth.
Claregalway Franciscan Friary, north chancel wall, tomb niche, capital
Capital of tomb niche, from top down moulding comprises: roll-and-fillet, roll, angle-fillet, chamfer, chamfer, fillet, bell, necking roll.
Claregalway Franciscan Friary, north chancel wall, tomb niche, hood
Hood moulding of tomb niche, from outer to inner surface moulding comprises: chamfer, roll.
Claregalway Franciscan Friary, north chancel wall, tomb niche, jamb
Jamb of tomb niche, larger rolls topped by capitals and bases. Moulding from inner face comprises: large roll, hollow, roll, hollow, roll, hollow, large roll, hollow, roll, hollow, roll - this roll runs into the flat wall surface. Few of these western tomb niches have separate straight jambs with shafts provided with capitals and bases - this…
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, cloister, base
Base from reconstructed cloister, moulding from top down comprises: roll, bell, drooping keel, bell running into plinth.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, cloister, base
Base of reconstructed cloister, from top down moulding comprises: roll, bell, roll, roll, bell, plinth with quirks. The middle element here looks rather like the double rolls of an English Perpendicular base.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, cloister, capital
Capital from reconstructed cloister, moulding from top down comprises: abacus, quadrant, angle-fillet, scroll, fillet, bell, necking scroll.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, cloister, capital
Capital from reconstructed cloister, moulding from top down comprises: abacus, roll, roll, angle-fillet, roll-and-fillet, fillet, bell, necking roll-and-fillet.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, east window, mullion
Mullion of curvilinear east window. Mullion is moulded at both inner and outer faces. Inner face comprises: frontal fillet flanked at either side by hollow chamfer, quadrant, hollow chamfer. The moulding of the outer face comprises: frontal fillet flanked at either side by hollow chamfer, right-angled rebate and hollow chamfer. The sides of the…
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, interior, east window, base
Base of shaft at outer face of jamb. Moulding from top down comprises: chamfered fillet, bell with keel half way down, fillet, scroll, chamfer, plinth. This base is similar in type to those at Holycross, Kilconnell, Lorrah, Strade etc.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, interior, east window, jamb
Jamb shaft running along reveal of east window. Moulding comprises, from angle: corner triple filleted roll flanked at either side by hollows and chamfers. This moulding looks Early English but is most likely fifteenth century, it looks similar to the work at Roscommon Dominican Friary, both in the jambs and in the tracery (both broken but…
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, rood screen, arch
Arches of rood screen, moulding from soffit comprises: quadrant, fillet, quarter-hollow, fillet, right-angled rebate, fillet, ogee, right-angled rebate, ogee, fillet, hollow chamfer, quadrant, ogee, fillet. Extensive use of ogees here, a late Gothic moulding rarely found in Ireland. When found it is often in association with very high quality work.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, rood screen, base
Base of rood screen, moulding comprises from top down: chamfered fillet, bell with keel, scroll, ogee, chamfer, plinth. This is similar to the complex bases from the cloister at Holycross, similar also to those at Lorrah Dominican and Roscrea.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, rood screen, capital
Capital of rood screen, from top down moulding comprises: scroll, roll, angle-fillet, scroll with upper and lower fillets, bell with keel, necking-scroll. This capital is very similar to those from the cloister at Holycross and the group related to it - particularly the use of the scroll, roll and angle-fillet in the upper element and the keel in…
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, stone store, mullion fragment
Mullion, loose in stone store, only one side of the mullion has elaborate mouldings, the other side is simply chamfered. The moulded side comprises: central fillet flanked at either side by hollow chamfer, spike, hollow chamfer.
Clontuskert Augustinian Priory, west door, jamb and arch
West door moulding, from soffit moulding comprises: roll-and-fillet, fillet, hollow, fillet, roll-and-fillet, fillet, hollow, fillet, roll-and-fillet, fillet, hollow, roll-and-fillet, fillet, pinnacle. This door, in its overall composition and the width of the fillets, is close to doors at Holycross, Kilcooly and other works related to them.