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Early Christian Architecture In Ireland.*
EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND . *
KItiCROSY , CO . AVICKLOW . WE have lately been perusing and studying a very interesting work by Margaret Stokes under this name , ancl it is a work we can recommend cordially ancl honestly to our readers . It is a very striking- work which once
you take up yon hardl y like to put down until you hiwe reached the end of it . The early history of Irish Architecture seems lost in the " obscurity of ages , in the dimness ancl uncertainty of pre-historic times . " "The pagan architecture is marked , " says the able writer , "by two great characteristics , which may be seen in ' forts and dome-roomed sepulchres , ' namely , absence of ' cement' ancl 'ignorance' of the ' arch . ' The former is not uncommonthough earlythe
, ; latter is very peculiar ! for whatever theories may be propounded about the arch , its construction in the east is very ancient indeed . " Per se , " this fact would render such remains very old indeed , and would dispose of the Phoenician theory , which is not accepted by the author of this work , as regards the round towers , which she makes comparatively late . We will not antedate the discussionbut simply add thataccording to Mrs . Stokestbe round towers
, , , are purely Christian ! Mrs . Stokes seems to attribute to St . Patrick and his fellow labourers the practical introduction of Christian ancl more systematic architecture , which culminates in an "Irish Romanesque , " a little "pre" the Norman work , " the " novum ceclificandi genus " introduced by the Conquest into England .
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Early Christian Architecture In Ireland.*
EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND . *
KItiCROSY , CO . AVICKLOW . WE have lately been perusing and studying a very interesting work by Margaret Stokes under this name , ancl it is a work we can recommend cordially ancl honestly to our readers . It is a very striking- work which once
you take up yon hardl y like to put down until you hiwe reached the end of it . The early history of Irish Architecture seems lost in the " obscurity of ages , in the dimness ancl uncertainty of pre-historic times . " "The pagan architecture is marked , " says the able writer , "by two great characteristics , which may be seen in ' forts and dome-roomed sepulchres , ' namely , absence of ' cement' ancl 'ignorance' of the ' arch . ' The former is not uncommonthough earlythe
, ; latter is very peculiar ! for whatever theories may be propounded about the arch , its construction in the east is very ancient indeed . " Per se , " this fact would render such remains very old indeed , and would dispose of the Phoenician theory , which is not accepted by the author of this work , as regards the round towers , which she makes comparatively late . We will not antedate the discussionbut simply add thataccording to Mrs . Stokestbe round towers
, , , are purely Christian ! Mrs . Stokes seems to attribute to St . Patrick and his fellow labourers the practical introduction of Christian ancl more systematic architecture , which culminates in an "Irish Romanesque , " a little "pre" the Norman work , " the " novum ceclificandi genus " introduced by the Conquest into England .