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Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - nave, south - west crossing pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the south - west crossing pier. Diamond - shaped in plan, the pier has large filleted shafts and bases with elongated bells on the diagonal face. Moulding style is similar to fourteenth - century work in the south transept suggesting they were constructed concurrently. Substantial form of the pier suggests it…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - north nave arcade, pier fragments
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north arcade showing fragments of various piers. One with octagonal chamfered base and vertical double - ogee mouldings resting on a high chamfered plinth of late Gothic type. Another fragment is a filleted shaft with a base set on a high round plinth. The final fragment is a vertical filleted angle - shaft…
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, interior - arcade pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. North transept, east arcade, first pier (seen from the south) showing square piers with roll - and - fillet angle shafts. Shafts flanked by three - quarter hollows and fillets. Hollows run into a chamfer at base.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - nave from north - west
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Nave viewed from the north - west showing foundations of the north and south aisle walls and some of the main arcade piers including the north - west and south - west crossing piers. The chapter house with Decorated window is visible in the background.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - nave, south - west crossing pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the west face of the south - west crossing pier. Measuring over 2.44m on its axis, the substantial size suggests it was required to support a central tower.
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, 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.
St Mary's Parish Church, New Ross, Co Wexford, interior - south transept, aisle and south elevation
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the south transept from the south - west showing arcade of pointed chamfered arches in two orders resting on cylindrical pier with moulded bell capital and water - holding base.The respond is engaged to the south elevation which also partially shows lancet windows in the main aisle and another on the east…
Cistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, interior - nave, south aisle from the west
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of south aisle from the west showing south elevation of nave with five - bay pointed arch arcade. Piers, varied in design (round, square and octagonal, the latter with engaged shafts) have scallop capitals and rest on square plinths. They are linked by a perpyn wall(damaged). Entrance to the north transept is via…
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.
Dunbrody Abbey, County Wexford, interior - north transept and transept chapels
Photograph by Roger Stalley. East elevation of the north transept showing arches on square piers and three transept chapels.