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 434
ucified sculptuied in relievo on its key-stone, and the stoneimmediately over it. This doorway, wdiich is placed at an elevationof twelve feet from the base of the Tower, measures five feet tw(jinches in height, and its inclined jambs are two feet three inches 3 G 410 INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND… … Hy * Some of the autagonists of the Chiistiau origin of the BoundTowers have asserted that this doorway plamly appears, to an ob-servmg eye, to be an after work; but there is not the shghtest groundsfor such an assertion; and, as Sir Richard Colt Hoare, a profoimdlyskilful antiquary, observes, this…
Church architecture · Round towers
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