Claregalway Franciscan Friary, north chancel wall, tomb niche, arch

Claregalway Franciscan Friary, north chancel wall, tomb niche, arch

Claregalway

Tomb niche in north nave wall. Moulding at inner surface has cusps, and from these outward comprises: fillet, three-quarter hollow, fillet, quadrant, fillet, chamfer (can be read as roll with two fillets), chamfer, right-angled rebate, quadrant, fillet, three-quarter hollow, fillet, quadrant, fillet, chamfer (can be read as roll with two fillets), chamfer, flat surface of wall. The three-quarter hollow flanked by fillets is an unusual moulding in medieval Ireland, Morris sees it as the ancestor of the casement. It also occurs at Athenry.

Architecture, Gothic - Ireland, Galway (Ireland) - Buildings, structures, etc., Architecture, Franciscan, Funerary monuments, roll-and-fillet moldings, roll moldings, moldings, hollow, fillets (moldings), quadrant

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O'Donovan, Danielle

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

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