St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - choir, south elevation, niche (detail)

St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - choir, south elevation, niche (detail)

Cashel, Tipperary South Riding, Tipperary, Munster, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of south elevation of choir showing niches surmounted by a stringcourse upon which rests lancet windows. Central niche has polychromatic filleted shafts and arches treated with capitals of stiff - leaf foliage and water - holding bases resting on a stepped stringcourse. An adjacent early classical niche to the right with architrave, earlier effigy of an ecclesiastic and heraldic shield on tomb chest is also partially visible.

Architecture, Medieval - Ireland, Architecture, Gothic - Ireland, Ecclesiastical architecture, Cathedrals - Ireland, Tipperary (Ireland : County) Buildings, structures, etc., Capitals (Architecture), Gothic, Foliation (Architecture and decoration), Funerary monuments, Mouldings, Heraldry - Ireland, niche, filleted shaft, stiff - leaf foliage, foliate capital, water - holding base, stringcourse, polychromy, architrave, effigy, heraldic shield, tomb figure, tomb chest, lancet window, choir

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Stalley, Roger

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Irish Research Council for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS), The Heritage Council of Ireland

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