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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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The view of King Cormac's Cliapel, as shown in tlie annexed en- 

 craving, is a specimen, and an 'ixtremely beautiful one, of the transi- 

 tion from Norman to Pointed ar^ilii lecture. The square towers are in 

 our author's opinion the result of a gradual cliange from the round 

 lowers. Mr. Willvinson considers various distinctions in the Norman 

 architecture of Ireland from that of England. The principal differ- 

 ences are, the rarity of intersecting circular arches, so common in 

 English specimens, and a closer resemblance in the ornaments to the 

 Lombard or Byzantine type. 



"Of a style succeeding the Norman early pointed architecture, the 

 Abbey of Tiraoleague (Fig. 4; presents a simple and interesting 



Fig 4 — Timoleague Abbey 



example; constructed with the slate-rock of the locality, it shows in 

 its simplicity, a great boldness and economy of construction by the 

 excellent use made of the local material ; the windows of the external 

 walls are nearly all pointed." P. 109. 



"In the Monastic edifices of Ireland there is much more of resem- 

 blance to the Continental than the English buildings, and they are 

 of very much less extent : as an example of the general plan of these 

 edifices, the accompanying ground-plan of Moyne Abbey, drawn to a 

 scale of 00 feet to the inch (Fig. 5) is a fair illustration. It will be 



LKirKANCE -RONT 

 Fig. 6.— Plan of Moyne Abbey. 



seen that the cloisters are very small, occupying a square of 48 feet, and 

 are surrounded by the church on the north side, and by the offices on 

 the other; the drawing here given of these cloisters (Fig. 6) is'also 

 a fair representation of the general design of the cloisters of the an- 

 cient Irish Abbeys. Their constructive character is very simple, com- 

 posed of solid masonry, and each side of the arched portion of the 

 Stones is in one length," P. 111. 



Fig (j —Cloisters 



" As an example of one of the towers of the monastic buildings last 

 described, the accompanying sketch (Fig. 7), with a plan of the piers 

 (Fig. 8), taken from the Abbey Rosserk, county of Mayo, represents 



Fig. 8.— Pl«n of Piers. 



the peculiar and inaccessible approach to these towers ; an arrange- 

 ment doubtless originated to obtain protection from assaults, and for 

 the security of the bells or other treasures of the church, as before re- 

 marked in ths obsTvationsmade on the Round Towers. These towers 

 are common to the iibbeys which prevail near the sea-coast, there 



