Leask, Harold G. Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings. Volume 1: The First Phases and the Romanesque / Volume 2: Gothic Architecture to A.D. 1400 / Vol. 3: Medieval Gothic. The Last Phases. Second, Second and Third Impression. Three volumes. Dundalk, Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest Ltd.), 1977 / 1967 / 1978. 19 x 25cm. 173, 162 & 190 pages, with illustrations and photographs throughout. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition in very good dust jackets. Internally bright and clean.

Complete Set of Harold Leask’s three volume study of Irish religious architecture. Detailed diagrams and illustrations accompany the text throughout and each volume contains a reference list to ecclesiastical sites and locations throughout the island of Ireland.

Volume One contents include: The Antiquity of Irish Ecclesiastical Buildings / Churches and Oratories of Unmortared Stone / The Development of the Irish Stone Roof / The Influence of Timber Construction on Irish Building in Stone / Early Churches in Mortared Stone / The Irish Romanesque

Volume Two contents include: The Cistercians in Ireland / The Augustinian and Other Orders / Transitional Architecture circa 1160-1200 / The School of the West / Irish Gothic to A.D. 1250 / Irish Gothic in the thirteenth and fourteenth Centuries / Features of Churches and Monasteries.

• Keywords: Archeology & Antiquities · Architecture · Art & Design · Building Technology · History of Ireland · Ireland
• Language: English
• Dust Jacket
• Inventory Number: 100009AB

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