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Title: The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Graves, James, 1815-1886
Subjects: St. Canice's Cathedral (Kilkenny, Kilkenny)
Publisher: Dublin, Hodges, Smith, & co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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he round tower in the fore-ground. Passing round to the north side, the north chapel and parish church presentthemselves. The former has been, in modern times, shedded up against the choir,but the skew-table or weathering of the old gabled roof is apparent against thetransept wall, as are also the doors and passage in the wall which gave accessto the valley between the roofs. The external surface of the gable of thischapel is v-eather-slated, covering up the two side lights of a triple lancet, andinjuring the general effect of the whole. Were this inappropriate coveringremoved, and the roof restored to its original form, it would prove a very greatimprovement to this part of the building. The parish church was re-roofedin 1850, the original pitch being preserved. It is lighted by two lancets inthe gable, and two in the north wall. Of the north transept little more need be said than that it is a counterpartof its southern fellow, wTith the exception of a doorway which will be described
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chap, in.) THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CATHEDRAL. 81 hereafter. The windows are much shortened; those to the west unnecessarily,the northern ones, in consequence of the unsightly roof of the colonnadeencroaching on their lower portions. It should have been stated before, thatthe gables of both transepts are pierced by two circular windows; one, a largemultifoil, immediately over the two lancets, and grouping with them ; the other,much smaller, and simply quatrefoiled, in the apex of the gable. The gable ofthis transept has lost its terminal cross. There is nothing in the north side aisle or north side of the nave that requiresremark, except that the side aisles do not appear ever to have had parapets,that the northern windows belong to the same low class of workmanship asthose on the south side, and that one of the clerestory quatrefoils, that nextthe west end, has been recently closed up with masonry. We are glad to learn,however, that this arrangement is only temporary. The masonry of t

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