Irish ecclesiastical architecture, with some notice of similar or related work in England, Scotland and elsewhere (1910)
Champneys, Arthur Charles · London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. · leaf 328
bird is pecking;this looks like a kind of foretaste of the way in which such hood-mouldsterminate in late Irish Gothic, as the pointed base is of the pointedcorbel; it also recalls the birds feeding among vines carved on someearly Irish—and English—crosses, as well as upon the late cross anddoorway… … -t IO Idit p. 146 TRANSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE 147 and to these may be added the pairs of windows at Clonfert and inSt. Colmans Church, Kilmacduagh. Striking and very vernacular examples of Transitional work inIreland are to be found in certain Cistercian Abbeys—Boyle, Corcomroe,and Abbey…
Church architecture · Round towers · Decoration and ornament
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