The ecclesiastical architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion; comprising an essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland, which obtained the gold medal and prize of the Royal Irish Academy (1845)
Petrie, George, 1789-1866 · Dublin : Hodges and Smith · leaf 198
l. Somechiselling on the left side of this d.xirway seems to indicate the in-tention of adding an architrave, like that seen in the Ladys Churcli,but wliicli was never completed. The next example, which I have to submit to the reader, is ofsomewhat later date, being the doorway of the church of St.… … This magniiiceut doorway, which the late eminent antiquarian tra-veller, Mr. Edward Dodwell, declared to me, was as perfectly Cyclo-jiean in its character, as any specimen he had seen in Greece, isconstructed altogether of six stones, including the lintel, which isabout six feet in length, and two…
Church architecture · Round towers
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