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
injured, is of greater size than is usualin Irish churches of the earliest age, the height, externally, beingthree feet six inches, and the breadth at the base ton inches, andat the top eight inches : the external measurement is above eight feetin height, and fom feet three inches in breadth. I… … 18G INQUIUY INTO TIIK OUIGIN AND USES also of an equally uiionuuueiited construction, but the arches areusually formed with great skill, and of blocks of stone nearly all ofequal size. These arches are invariably semicircular, and generallyspring from jambs which have au inclination corresponding…
Church architecture · Round towers
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