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St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing capitals
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of crossing capitals on filleted shafts with chamfered arch mouldings. Capitals have human head carvings and stiff - leaf foliage designs. Label stop has female head carving with contemporary headdress and veil.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing capitals
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of crossing capitals on filleted shafts with chamfered arch mouldings. Outer orders have bell capitals, inner ones have foliate designs.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing pier (detail), bases
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of crossing pier in several orders with engaged roll - and - fillet shafts terminating in water - holding bases sitting on chamfered plinths. Some angles are chamfered, the chamfers terminating in pyramidal stops.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing pier (detail), bases
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of crossing pier showing water - holding bases of filleted shafts on chamfered plinths.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing seen from western 'castle'
Photograph by Roger Stalley. General views and details of the crossing as seen from the upper levels of the 'castle' at the west end of the nave.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The crossing tower viewed from the south transept with detail of window in south wall of tower.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower from west
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of crossing tower from nave.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower, door to western wall walk of south transept
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The entrance to the western wall walk of the south transept. The dark area to the right is the entrance to the spiral staircase in the stair turret.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower, doors to wall walks
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Various views of the corner doorways in the crossing tower which lead out onto the wall walks.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower, eastern interior wall
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Eastern interior wall of crossing tower.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower, north - west corner of tower, doorway capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Details of door jamb in north - west corner of crossing tower.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower, south - eastern door to transept wall walk
Photograph by Roger Stalley. South - eastern door from the crossing tower onto the eastern wall walk of the south transept, seen from the south transept.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing tower, western elevation
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the west elevation of the crossing tower taken from the nave.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing vault
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Three images of the crossing vault showing rubble webbing.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - crossing, south crossing arch
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The chamfered orders of the crossing arch, close ups showing vertical tooling and masons' marks.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - lancet window rere - arch (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Rere - arch of deeply splayed lancet window. The arris is treated with an engaged shaft set in a hollow topped with a stiff - leaf bell capital. The arch above is moulded with roll and fillets. The hood has an ogee - like moulding of a roll and hollow with a stop formed of a head in the guise of a king.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - nave doorway, capital
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of capital on western door to the nave showing individualised carved human heads and stiff - leaf foliate designs.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - nave south wall, tomb niche/altar
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Tomb niche in the south wall of the nave. Stalley has compared the capitals here to capitals found at nearby Hore Abbey, a building largely dating from the 1270s.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - nave south wall, window
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Decorative plasterwork added to the window splays and head in the south wall of the nave.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - nave, door in west wall
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Doorway leading from the nave to the bishop's palace/castle. Although Early English in style the doorway may be late medieval. The shield above is of the Butler family of Ormond - differenced with Pheons and an Archiepiscopal cross, it also appears at Kilcooly Abbey. It is not clear whom this shield represents.