The ecclesiastical architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion; comprising an essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland, which obtained the gold medal and prize of the Royal Irish Academy. By George Petrie ...

Main entry:

Petrie, George, 1790-1866.

Title & Author:

Edition:

2d ed.

Publication:

Dublin, Hodges and Smith, 1845.

Description:

2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xxi, 525 pages illustrations 28 cm

Notes:
"Originally written for, and presented to the Royal Irish Academy, as an Essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland ... In its present form, the work contains not only the original Essay on the round towers, very much enlarged, but also distinct essays on our ancient stone churches and other ecclesiastical buildings of contemporaneous age with the round towers."--Preface
The first edition of this work was published as volume 20 of the Royal Irish Academy.
A projected second, or supplementary, volume was never published.

Subject:

Church architecture Ireland.
Round towers Ireland.
Architecture chrétienne Irlande.
Tours rondes Irlande.
Antiquities.
Church architecture.
Round towers.
Ireland Antiquities.
Irlande Antiquités.
Ireland.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 38052
Call No.: W4182; ID:88-B8947
Status: Available

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