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 209
The same mode of construction is observable in the windows ofthe ancient oratories, which are built without cement, in the neigh- OF THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRKLAXl). 185 l.cnuhood oiDiiigk., in the county of Kvny, as in tlic oast and onlywindow in tlie orutoiy at Gallerus, of wliicli an c-xtornal view… … Of ancient windows exhibiting a dou-ble, or external and internal, .splay, as Ibundin many of the Saxon ehurehes and towersin England, I do not recollect having metwith more than a single exanipK, and inthis the splay is oidy in the jambs. ThisAvindowisfoimd in the stone oratory, builtwithout…
Church architecture · Round towers
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