Mount Melleray Monastery

Abbey in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1920–1930

Detached fourteen-bay double-height Gothic Revival Cistercian abbey church, c.1925, on a cruciform plan comprising ten-bay double-height nave with single-bay (six-bay deep) double-height lower (public) chapel to south-west having five-bay single-storey flat-roofed side aisles, seven-bay single-storey flat-roofed side aisles to north and to south to nave, single-bay (three-bay deep) double-height transepts to north and to south having single-bay single-storey gabled flanking entrance bays, single-bay three-stage tower to crossing on a square plan having single-bay two-stage polygonal turret to north-east, and three-bay double-height chancel to east having five-bay double-height chapter houses to north and to south with four-bay single-storey linking range to east. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to entrance bays to transepts; gables to chapter houses) with clay ridge tiles (rolled copper ridge tiles to chapter houses), cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves having consoles. Flat roofs to aisles not visible behind parapets. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Tooled limestone ashlar walls with cut-limestone dressings including gabled stepped buttresses, cut-stone coping to parapets to aisles, and gabled profiled piers to nave. Tooled limestone ashlar walls to tower with cut-limestone dressings including gabled

Type:
Abbey

Period:
1920–1930

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.19°N, 7.86°W

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