Saint Canice's Cathedral
Library/archive in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1690–1695
Attached six-bay two-storey library, built 1693, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier grammar school, 1539. Renovated, 1950. Refenestrated, 1987. Reroofed, 1995. Now in use as offices. Pitched roof with replacement salvaged slate, 1995, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted replacement rendered, ruled and lined walls, 1950, over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows, 1987. Pair of square-headed door openings with cut-limestone thresholds, timber panelled doors having overlights, and cantilevered timber canopy over on timber brackets having trefoil apertures. Set back from road in partitioned shared grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall to forecourt having chamfered coping supporting iron railings, square-headed gateway with dressed rubble limestone piers having tooled dressed rubble limestone dressings, lintel, and no fittings on cut-limestone threshold.
- Type:
- Library/archive
- Period:
- 1690–1695
- Where:
- Kilkenny, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 52.66°N, 7.26°W
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