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Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of south elevation of choir showing niches surmounted by a stringcourse upon which rests lancet windows. Central niche has polychromatic filleted shafts and arches treated with capitals of stiff - leaf foliage and water - holding bases resting on a stepped stringcourse. An adjacent early classical niche to the…

Photograph by Roger Stalley. The pier in the west wall of the nave. Although designed to harmonise with the Early English work in the cathedral, this pier is most likely late medieval. The capital mouldings are similar to those of the mid - fifteenth century cloister at Holycross Abbey.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Doorway leading from the nave to the bishop's palace/castle. Although Early English in style the doorway may be late medieval. The shield above is of the Butler family of Ormond - differenced with Pheons and an Archiepiscopal cross, it also appears at Kilcooly Abbey. It is not clear whom this shield represents.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of a shaft between rere - arch and wall. The whitewash to the right is on the splay of the lancet. The jamb is moulded with a large central hollow (to house a now missing endélit shaft) flanked to the right side by roll - and - fillets and further hollows. The stiff - leaf capital supports arch mouldings formed…

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of a shaft between the two rere - arches. The whitewash left and right is on the splay of the lancets - which run in a continuous sequence. The jamb is moulded with a large central hollow (to house a now missing endélit shaft) flanked by roll - and - fillets and further hollows. This capital has an upper unit…

Photograph by Roger Stalley.View of north elevation of choir showing rere - arch of quatrefoil window with with round head, rounded sill and jamb treated with engnaged shafts, bases and foliate capitals. Surmounted by a corbel, this window fills the spandrel between two hood moulded lancets, one of which is blocked up. The other lancet is also…

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of north elevation of choir showing rere - arches of two quatrefoil windows with round heads and rounded sills. Jambs are treated with shafts, bases and foliate capitals. They fill the spandrels between two hood moulded lancet windows also treated with foliate capitals below arch and hood mouldings comprised of…

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of crossing tower viewed from north transept showing chamfered crossing arch and ribbed vault,three access portals to crossing tower passage (centre one below the roof scar) and twin trefoil - headed lights. Hood - moulded lancet window in west elevation of transept also partially visible.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of elevation of crossing tower from north transept showing crossing arch in three chamfered orders, three access portals to crossing tower passage (centre one below the roof scar) and twin trefoil - headed lights above.

Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of lancet window below a line of corbels in west elevation of north transept. Moulded rere - arch of window has two differing bell capitals, one with nailhead ornament, the other with stiff - leaf. These capitals sit atop engaged shafts moulded at either side with a shallow hollow. Hood is treated with an ogee…

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of the junction between the rere - arches of two (of three) deeply splayed lancet windows in the north wall of the north transept. The arches have a stiff - leaf foliage label stop, stiff - leaf bell capital and roll - and - fillet arch mouldings. The endélit shaft below the capital is now missing. The curve of…

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