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(handwritten on back of image): Dublin: St. Patrick's: N. side of nave, grotesque and capital at W. end of outer arch, nave side of second arch from crossing (multiple images on file)

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of the cloister showing 'dumb - bell' pier with water - holding base and figural carving. The 'dumb - bell' pier, here with round pseudo - colonnettes, later became a standard feature of Irish cloister designs. The foreground pier depicts an ecclesiastical figure, an abbot or bishop, arrayed in liturgical…