St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, exterior - West doorway

St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, exterior - West doorway

Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of West doorway showing main arch which is subdivided allowing two portals.These are surrounded by cusped arches. The spandrel above has a quatrefoil frame flanked by foliage bosses and smaller quatrefoil frames containing carved angel figures.

Architecture, Medieval - Ireland, Architecture, Gothic - Ireland, Ecclesiastical architecture, Cathedrals - Ireland, Foliation (Architecture and decoration), Kilkenny (Ireland) - Buildings, structures, etc., Gothic doorways, Mouldings, Wells Cathedral, portal, cusped arch, spandrel, foliage boss, quatrefoil frame, hood stop, figural carving, tracery

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Stalley, Roger

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