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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 - choir, north elevation, rere - arches of quatrefoil windows
Photograph by Roger Stalley.Image of north elevation of choir showing rere - arch of quatrefoil window with with round head and rounded sill. Jambs treated with bases, shafts and foliate capitals.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, interior - choir, north elevation, east window
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of choir, north elevation, east window showing lancet window resting on stringcourse and surmounted by corbels. Filleted arch mouldings and capitals treated with stiff - leaf carving rest on en délit shafts punctuated in the middle by annulets. Hood moulding of rolls, hollows and roll - and - fillets terminates in…
St. John's Benedictine Priory, Youghal, north door, jamb and arch
Pointed door contined in square frame with tracery in the spandrels. From intrados moulding comprises hollow, chamfer, chamfer (forming mitre at angle), hollow, chamfer, right-angled rebate, chamfer, hollow, chamfer. Unusual moulding, mitres rare, see Holycross for other examples.
St. John's Benedictine Priory, Youghal, south wall, piscina, jamb and arch
Piscina jamb and arch, moulding comprises: double ogee running along chamfer plane.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, font, supporting shaft
Octagonal baptismal font with hexagonal supporting shafts running from angles of bowl. Moulding comprises frontal mitre flanked at either side by quadrant, hollow chamfer, flat surface, hollow and rear mitre. Rare survival of Decorated font.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, north choir wall, door jamb and arch
Door jamb and arch moulding comprising: double ogee running along chamfer plane.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, north choir wall, tomb niche, base of niche
Base of tomb niche opening, moulding from top down comprises: roll, roll, bell, roll, roll, bell, curved plinth. Very unusual Perpendicular style base, other examples can be found at Strade, Sligo Dominican, Balintubber.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, north choir wall, tomb niche, base of pinnacle
Base of pinnacle flanking tomb nice. Moulding from top down comprises: roll, bell, roll, roll, bell, fillet, sloping plinth. This base is Perpendicular in form and compares with those at Sligo Dominican, Strade and Ballintubber.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, north choir wall, tomb niche, blind tracery, mullion
Mullion from panels of blind Perpendicular tracery at the back of the tomb niche. The mullion comprises: frontal fillet flanked at either side by ogee, fillet, hollow. It may also be read as a roll and fillet flanked at either side by hollows. One of the only mouldings of this kind found in late medieval Irish Gothic.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, north choir wall, tomb niche, jamb, arch and hood moulding
Tomb jamb, arch and hood, moulding comprises: hollow chamfer, quadrant, hollow chamfer, quadrant, hollow chamfer. The hood, from outside in, comprises ogee roll, fillet, hollow, roll. The subtle graduation in the size of the hollow chamfers of this moulding, although simple by the standards of England or France, makes it one of the most…
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, south choir wall, piscina, base
Base of piscina, from top down, moulding comprises: angle fillet, bell, roll, roll, bell, free-standing fillet, plinth. A Perpenidcular style base resembling others at the site.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, south choir wall, piscina, jamb, arch and hood
Piscina jamb and arch moulding, which comprises, from intrados: chamfer, flat surface, roll, broad fillet at same level as intrados, ogee, ogee, chamfer, fillet, ogee. The hood, from outermost point to innermost comprises: fillet, wave, hollow, ogee. This moulding is unusual for the inclusion of a wave, for the extra ornamentation of the intrados,…
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, south choir wall, window rear arch
Rear arch of south windows, mouding comprises: double ogee running along chamfer plane.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, south choir wall, sedilia, base
Round base of sedilia, moulding from top down comprises: roll, bell, roll, roll, bell, free-standing fillet, hollow, plinth. A Perpendicular style base resembling others at the site. This base is round, making it even more unusual.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, south choir wall, sedilia, capital
Round capital of sedilia, from top down moulding comprises abacus, chamfer, hollow, roll, fillet, bell, necking roll. This capital is unusual not only because it is round rather than the usual polygonal shape, but because the moulding elemets are small in scale and finely cut.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, south choir wall, sedilia, jamb, arch and hood
Jamb, arch and hood moulding of sedilia. From intrados moulding comprises: ogee roll-and-fillet, quadrant, double ogee. The hood, from the outer to inner face reads: chamfer, ogee, hollow chamfer, ogee. This is an unusual moulding, in scale and in variety of elements. It resembes the west door moulding of Abbeydorney Cistercian Monastery and these…
St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, south transept, wooden screen, door jamb
Door jamb of wooden screen in south transept. From intrados, moulding comprises: quadrant, fillet, ogee.
St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, south transept, east wall, Joyce tomb, base
Base of tomb niche jamb. Moulding comprises from top down: grooved roll, bell, flat surface at right angle, hollow chamfer, quadrant, flat surface, bell, flat surface at right angle, quadrant, hollow chamfer, plinth. The mouldings here are unusual, the two lower elements protrude from the bell as two square blocks with mouldings at their front…
St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, south transept, east wall, Joyce tomb, capital frieze
Capital frieze of Joyce tomb, which runs horizontally between the jamb and arch. Moulding comprises, from top down: roll, bell running into roll, free-standing fillet, roll, fillet, hollow chamfer, roll, hollow chamfer. This tomb is thought to be very late, and have almost classical mouldings.