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dc.contributor.authorStalley, Roger
dc.coverage.spatialThomastown, County Kilkenny, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-04T10:22:25Z
dc.date.available2010-06-04T10:22:25Z
dc.date.issued2010-06-04
dc.identifier.otherrscm0763
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/40017
dc.descriptionPhotograph by Roger Stalley. View of cloister showing round chamfered arches carried on 'dumb-bell' piers with bell capitals, water-holding bases and figural carvings. The 'dumb-bell' pier, here with round pseudo-colonnettes, later became a standard feature of Irish cloister designs. The foreground pier depicts a female figure in contemporary costume surmounted, between the capitals, by a carved male head wearing a cone-shaped hat. The woman wears a headdress and veil, the latter flowing out over the colonettes and indicated by lightly incised lines. Her long gown falls in regular corrugated pleats from below the waist. Long slits within the folds of the fabric allow her hands to be concealed in pockets. Lappets attached to her elbows allow fabric to flow out over the colonettes. A small seated animal grotesque is carved into the colonette at her left elbow and beneath her feet, between the bases of the colonettes, there is a small foliate carving. The centre pier depicts an ecclesiastical figure, an abbot or bishop arrayed in liturgical vestments, bearing a crosier in his left hand and his right hand raised in blessing. Beneath his feet, between the bases of the piers, is a carved grotesque. The farthest pier has a stiff-leaf carved capital.en
dc.format.mediumStoneen
dc.languageN/A
dc.subjectcloister walken
dc.subjectbell capitalen
dc.subjectwater-holding baseen
dc.subjectdumb-bell pieren
dc.subjectchamfered archen
dc.subjectround archen
dc.subjectcolonetteen
dc.subjectfigural carvingen
dc.subjecthead carvingen
dc.subjectgrotesque carvingen
dc.subjectanimal carvingen
dc.subjectheaddressen
dc.subjectveilen
dc.subjectlappeten
dc.subjectecclesiastical figureen
dc.subjectliturgical vestmentsen
dc.subjectcrosieren
dc.subjectstiff-leaf foliageen
dc.subjectfoliate capitalen
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture, Medieval--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture, Gothic--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshEcclesiastical architectureen
dc.subject.lcshCistercian architectureen
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture--Ireland--Kilkenny (County)en
dc.subject.lcshCloisters (Architecture)en
dc.subject.lcshStone carving--Ireland.en
dc.subject.lcshMonasteries--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshBases (Architecture)en
dc.subject.lcshGothic capitals (Architecture)en
dc.subject.lcshDecoration and ornament, Architecturalen
dc.subject.lcshMouldingsen
dc.titleCistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, exterior - cloister, pier - figural carvingen
dc.typeImageen
dc.contributor.rolePhotographeren
dc.coverage.cultureIrishen
dc.subject.periodLate Medieval
dc.subject.styleLate Gothic
dc.title.largerentityCistercian Abbey, Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny.en
dc.type.workarchitectureen


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