. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. "Figs. 13 is a doorway from the tower at Monasterboice, county Louth, it is about live feet above the surface, —a band Hi in. wide runs round it, and a 4i in. sunk face, 5 in. deep, being carried par- tially round,—the door is 2 ft. 3 in. wide at the base outside, and 2 ft. inside,—1 ft. 11 in. at springing, and 4 ft. G in. high to springing, and is semi-cir- cular headed ; the other open- ings are angle-headed. Fig. 13.—Doorway, " No portions of a build ing'more co
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. "Figs. 13 is a doorway from the tower at Monasterboice, county Louth, it is about live feet above the surface, —a band Hi in. wide runs round it, and a 4i in. sunk face, 5 in. deep, being carried par- tially round,—the door is 2 ft. 3 in. wide at the base outside, and 2 ft. inside,—1 ft. 11 in. at springing, and 4 ft. G in. high to springing, and is semi-cir- cular headed ; the other open- ings are angle-headed. Fig. 13.—Doorway, " No portions of a build ing'more conspicuously show the simplicity of means for producing a sound construction, and appropriate and pic- turesque effect, than the chimney shafts on the roofs of many old structures. The accompanying woodcut (Fig. 14) represents a plain old chimney shaft, which is a type of those common to the ancient buildings; and though exposed to the violence of many a storm, and frequently occupying the exposed gable point of some dismantled roof, they are yet sound and enduring. They are fre- quently constructed of the commonest rubble stones, roughly squared to form the angles. In several buildings the out- line is much more varied, and often very picturesque, but yet the same simple construction prevails; and occasionally they are built with carefully dressed masonry, according to the circumstances of the locality. " The chimney shafts of ancient edilices generally present a great contrast with those of the present day. In most of the ordinary build- ings of the Tudor or Elizabethan style, where something beyond the usual meagre-built shaft is required, some approved book-form is imitated,—a model from some English building, excellent in itself and suitable to the building to whitli it belongs, yet not necessarily so to all structures; and so established is this false system, and so little is the locality considered, or the principles of design rightly pursued, that the ceme
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