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Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - north transept, west aisle
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View into western aisle of north transept. Foreground shows north - west crossing pier with plain shafts on a chamfered plinth. Transept piers are rectangular in shape and have filleted shafts with water - holding bases.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - sourth - east crossing pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Eastern elevation of south - east crossing pier on diamond - shaped plan with chamfered vertical shafts on polygonal bases.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - north transept, north - east crossing pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north - east crossing pier showing vertical roll - and - fillet mouldings resting on chamfered bases.
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, 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.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - chapter house, south elevation, east window
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of eastern - most window in the south elevation of the chapter house. A pair of cusped round - headed lights are surmounted by a small spherical diamond light which separates the curvilinear tracery above. This is composed of two cusped inward facing mouchettes surmounted by a cusped quatrefoil light. The mullions…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - presbytery, south - east corner, buttress
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of east end of presbytery from the south - east showing buttress at the south - east corner, projecting from a battered masonry plinth. Disposition and size of the buttresses on north and south elevations suggest the existence of a rib - vault in the extended presbytery, probably divided into three bays. A similar…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, arches, capitals and shafts
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of lavabo showing 1.5 bays of the octagonally planned building. Each bay occupies a side of the octagon. The bays are divided vertically by angle shafts of twin rolls separated by an angle fillet which support acanthus capitals, these in turn once supported a rib - vault. The bays are divided horizontally…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - chapter house
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of chapter house showing dressed splayed stone reveal with rere - arch elaborated with foliate capital and shaft.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - north transept, west aisle, transept chapel, south pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of west aisle of north transept showing rectangular pier in southern - most chapel. South and west elevations have filleted shafts on water - holding bases and chamfered plinth. They may have acted as responds for vault ribs above.
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, exterior - presbytery south elevation, buttress
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of east end of presbytery from the south - east showing buttress projecting from a battered masonry plinth. Disposition and size of the buttresses on north and south elevations suggest the existence of a rib - vault in the extended presbytery, probably divided into three bays. A similar arrangement exists at the…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - presbytery north facade, buttresses
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Exterior of thirteenth - century addition to east end presbytery showing buttresses projecting from a battered masonry plinth. Disposition and size of the buttresses suggest the existence of a rib - vault in the extended presbytery, probably divided into three bays. A similar arrangement exists at the Cistercian Abbey…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, Collon, County Louth, interior - north transept chapel, pier respond
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north transept showing south - eastern transept chapel. The south pier respond adjoins the north - east crossing pier. Complex series of roll - and - fillet arch mouldings are augmented with endélit shafts, these all rest on water - holding bases and a chamfered plinth.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, shaft, base and plinth
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of the lavabo showing a double plinth, the upper section very deep, surmounted by a water - holding base cut to echo the shaft above. The shaft comprises a central spiked hollow flanked by beak mouldings.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital and vault rib
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of lavabo showing twin round shafts separated by an arris fillet supported by a corbel (damaged); an acanthus foliate carved bell capital which interrupts a roll - and - fillet stringcourse is the springing point of the vault rib.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo, capital and vault rib
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior of lavabo showing twin round shafts separated by arris fillet bearing acanthus foliate carved bell capital which interrupts a roll - and - fillet stringcourse;the abacus is the springing point of the vault rib.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo base
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Base and shaft of lavabo doorway on plinth with keel moulded architrave.