Blanchville House

Folly in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1845–1850

Freestanding single-bay four-stage Tudor Gothic-style bell and clock tower, built 1846-7, on a square plan. Bells removed, 1930. Undergoing restoration, 2004-5. Irregular coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with cut-limestone dressings including stepped clasping corner buttresses rising through carved stringcourse to second stage as octagonal corner piers having carved stringcourses, cut-granite decorative panel to first stage having cut-limestone voussoirs over forming camber relieving arch, cut-granite shield plaque over, cut-limestone shield plaques to second stage, and carved cut-granite stringcourse to top stage supported on carved tapered corbels. Pointed-arch window openings to first stage with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, and carved granite decorative openwork panels. Square-headed window openings to second stage (pointed-arch window opening over entrance) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, mullions forming bipartite cinquefoil-headed arrangement now missing, and carved granite decorative openwork overpanels. Oculus openings to third stage (originally accommodating cast-iron clock faces) with carved cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, and continuous shared hood moulding over forming stringcourse supporting cut-lime

Type:
Folly

Period:
1845–1850

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.63°N, 7.13°W

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