Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture: With Some Notice of Similar Or Related Work in England, Scotland, and Elsewhere |
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Ahenny aisle ancient Annals of Ulster Antiquities appears Appendix arcade Architecture of Ireland Banagher beehive Book of Kells British Museum building built Caimin's capitals carved Cashel Cathedral Celtic chancel chancel arch churchyard Cistercian cloisters connection Cormac's Chapel corners cross at Clonmacnois decoration doubt Dublin Dunraven Durrow earlier Early Christian early Irish east window elaborate England English examples feet Four Masters Glendalough Gothic Architecture grave-slabs High Crosses Inismurray inside instance interlaced Iona Irish architecture Irish crosses Irish Romanesque Irish Round Tower Island jambs Jerpoint Abbey Journal R.S.A.I. Kilkenny Kilkieran Kilmalkedar knot-work later less Lindisfarne Gospels lintel Lough masonry mentioned Monasterboice monastery mortar mouldings nave Norman oratory ornament palmette panel pattern Petrie plain probably resemblance Roman Round Tower Scotland shafts shews similar slabs sometimes spirals square Stokes stone churches stone roof style Teampull tomb transept vault wall WEST DOORWAY west end XII century
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Page 186 - Ages, but such fragments as do exist show marked variations from the contemporary style in England. Such battlements, for instance, as those which crown the tower of Jerpoint Abbey are identical with many found in the North of Italy, but very unlike anything either in England or Scotland, and give a foreign look to the whole building which is very striking.
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Page 32 - O'Killen we have the stones well bedded in mortar. The archaistic and so-called Cyclopean character of this masonry, especially in the limestone districts, is very striking, even though cement be used. The great stones, varying from ten and even seventeen feet to eight and six feet in length, are often...