St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary, interior - choir, south elevation, niche (detail) - Stalley, Roger (My University, 2011)
St Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel, Co Tipperary
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of south elevation of choir showing double trefoil headed niche (piscina?) surmounted by two lancet windows. Filleted shafts support capitals treated with stiff-leaf foliage. An adjacent larger niche is also partially visible showing polychromatic filleted shafts and stiff-leaf foliage capitals on water-holding bases resting on a stringcourse.
Keywords: niche; filleted shaft; stiff-leaf foliage; foliate capital; stringcourse; choir; lancet window; architrave; trefoil head; roll-and-fillet moulding; piscina; Architecture, Medieval--Ireland; Architecture, Gothic--Ireland; Ecclesiastical architecture; Cathedrals--Ireland; Tipperary (Ireland : County) Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture--Ireland--Tipperary; Foliation (Architecture and decoration); Capitals (Architecture); Mouldings; Medieval; Early English Gothic