The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . in- as in the north chapel and south lights of the dows here described. Lady chapel, which also show the displacement The gradual introduction of tracery into the of the pier by the slender mullion; whilst plate windows of Gothic churches is well illustrated tracery makes its appearance in the east lights in this cathedral. We have simple lancets, single, of the Lady chapel and side-aisle windows, where or grouped, but still divided by piers, as in the the tympanum is pierced by a quatrefoil. 0 98 THE AR
The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . in- as in the north chapel and south lights of the dows here described. Lady chapel, which also show the displacement The gradual introduction of tracery into the of the pier by the slender mullion; whilst plate windows of Gothic churches is well illustrated tracery makes its appearance in the east lights in this cathedral. We have simple lancets, single, of the Lady chapel and side-aisle windows, where or grouped, but still divided by piers, as in the the tympanum is pierced by a quatrefoil. 0 98 THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CATHEDRAL. [sect. I. trated in the case of the central window, the two lancets having been formedinto one squat aperture. The two remaining windows are blocked up withmasonry, but the dressings of the old lancets remain, and they might be easilyrestored. It is most desirable, also, that the east window of this chapel shouldbe freed from the weather-slating which disfigures its exterior aspect, and thelath-and-plaster which blocks up two of its compartments The parish church next presents itself; it opens off the north transept byan arch of considerable size, richly molded on its external edge, and also fur-Parish nished with a molded sub-arch, corbelled off at the spring. Thewoodcut here given shows the parish church as seen through one ofthe arches of the nave. The north and east walls are pierced each by two plainlancets, and there is a large and deep round-arched panel in the south wall,the intention of which is not easily discovered; its lower part is about six feet chap, in.] THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CATHEDRAL. 99 from the floor, and directly beneath the centre of it is inserted an aumbrey, thesingular form of which will be best understood from the accompanying illus-tration, drawn to a scale of three-fourths of an inch to a foot: a section of itsmoldings is also given. Whether this chapel was that originally designed to
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