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Notes on Irish architecture (1875)

Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1812-1871, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London, G. Bell and Sons · leaf 341

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r orders of the Irish door spring more directlyfrom the sides, inclining towards it from the base. The columns at the sides of the 192 0/ the Romanesque of Ireland. Norman doorway stand forth boldly, each rising from a broad and well defined base,and crowned by its own individual capital. The sides… … Capitals in Clonaltin Church. of bowtels, with merely slight projections at the feet, scarcely to be termed bases ; and,instead of separate capitals to each, a single entablature unites the whole, often terminatingat the angles with heads of a strikingly archaic character. The doorways of…

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