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Cistercian Abbey, Graiguenamanagh, Co Kilkenny, interior - south aisle, monks' doorway
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of monk's doorway in south ailse. Receding orders show alternating roll - and - fillet and dogtooth arch mouldings enclosed by hood mould with foliate carved label stop. The inner order is chamfered and multi - cusped; the west capital shows fine stiff - leaf foliage and the east one chevron ornament as well as…
Cistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, exterior - cloister, pier - figural carving
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the cloister showing 'dumb - bell' pier with water - holding base and figural carving. The 'dumb - bell' pier, here with round pseudo - colonnettes, later became a standard feature of Irish cloister designs. The foreground pier depicts an ecclesiastical figure, an abbot or bishop, arrayed in liturgical…
Cistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, exterior - cloister, pier - figural carving
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of cloister showing round chamfered arches carried on 'dumb - bell' piers with bell capitals, water - holding bases and figural carvings. The 'dumb - bell' pier, here with round pseudo - colonnettes, later became a standard feature of Irish cloister designs. The foreground pier depicts a female figure in…
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, 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, exterior - north transept, door jamb
Photograph by Roger Stalley. North transept door in three moulded orders. Inner square order has angle shaft flanked by three - quarter hollows and fillets. Outer two orders have plan shafts with water - holding bases on round plinths. These shafts flanked at inner faces by hollows and round shafts and at outer faces by hollows and roll - and -…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - presbytery east end, north elevation, tomb recess & stringcourse
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north elevation of extended east end presbytery showing tomb recess and stringcourse. Recess has water - holding base (endélit shaft missing) and mouldings with vertical line of dogtooth ornament. A small segment of roll - and - fillet moulded stringcourse is also visible at the angle of the north and east…
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - chapter house
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Interior view of chapter house showing rib - vaulted ceiling, roll - and - fillet octagonal shafts with foliate capitals and water - holding bases.
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, interior - lavabo base
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Base and shaft of lavabo doorway on plinth with keel moulded architrave.
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 - north transept, tomb recess
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of interior of north transept showing part of a tomb recess. Outer order, comprised of a roll - and - fillet moulding, rests on chamfered base with pyramid stops. The inner order of the recess has a round water - holding base (en délit shaft missing) flanked at outer face vertical band of dogtooth ornament, both…
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 - 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.
Franciscan Friary, Ardfert, Co Kerry, exterior - south elevation of the nave
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of first bay of the south nave wall. Chamfered arch moulding is carried on a cylindrical pier of ashlar masonry with bell capital and water - holding base. Late Gothic entrance to night stair and coeval south cloister walk can be seen on far side of nave arcade.
St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, interior - base of crossing pier
Photograph by Roger Stalley.Base mouldings and shafts of the south - west crossing pier viewed from the south aisle looking into the nave.
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, exterior - nave, west gable and south aisle - viewed from south - east
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of nave, west gable and south aisle from the south - east. West gable has triple lancet window with rectangular and sexfoil rose windows overhead. Lancets set in deep splays have rere - arches treated with shafts and annulets, foliate and head carved capitals and water - holding bases. Surrounding hood moulding is…
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, interior - nave, south aisle, tomb recess
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of tomb recesses below roll - and - fillet stringcourse in the south aisle of the nave. Cinquefoil arches have cable moulding and cusps carved with stiff - leaf foliage. Capitals are of bell and foliate design and have nailhead ornament also. Plain shafts rest on water - holding bases. Hood moulding has roll - and…
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, interior - nave, south aisle, tomb recess (detail)
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Piscina with multi - foiled arch on bell capitals with nailhead moulding and plain shafts on water - holding bases. Roll - and - fillet hood moulding terminates in male head carving on one side (other missing)
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran, Co Kilkenny, interior - nave, south aisle, window, east elevation
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Window in east elevation of south aisle of nave showing twin lancets with trefoil heads and a quatrefoil window above and roll - and - fillet stringcourse below. The arches have foliate cusps and dogtooth mouldings; capitals have stiff - leaf foliage carvings; roll - and - fillet hood mouldings terminate in foliate and…