Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - chapter house, south elevation, east window

Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - chapter house, south elevation, east window

Collon, County Louth, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe

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 and surrounding arch have hollow and fillet mouldings.

Architecture, Medieval - Ireland, Ecclesiastical architecture, Architecture - Ireland - Louth, Cistercian architecture, Monasteries—Ireland, Windows - History., Tracery (Architecture), chapter house, curvilinear tracery, mouchette, cusp, mullion, light, filleted moulding, quatrefoil window, diamond window, round - headed light

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