page_title: Grey Abbey
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Grey Abbey / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: journalofroyalso1899roya (find matches) Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Year: 1849 (1840s) Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers Subjects: Publisher: Dublin, Ireland&#160;: The Society Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Archived Version of Source Journal: Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: in two chapels, II feet 6 inches broad and16 feet deep. These chapels were separated from each other by a wall,from which sprang the stone arched barrel vaulting; and each pair ofchapels had an external roofing over this vaulting, as is evidenced by astone string course which marks the line of roof on the north elevation. The chancel, which was 24 feet 6 inches broad and 30 feet long, hadits eastern end square, the gable having a double tier of triplet windowsof early pointed form, with smaller windows at the top. The northand south windows lighting the eastern arm of the church were origin-ally of similar character and form, but at some subsequent date theyhave had decorated stone tracery inserted on the outside. The chancelarch and the south transept arch have fallen, but the choir arch and thenorth transept arch still remain. The walls above these arches give 1 Abstract prepared by Mr. J. J. Phillips, Aixhitect, for the Societys visit, froma monograph published by him in a.d. 1874. Text Appearing After Image: 362 KOYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. evidence of having been carried at least for one story above the roof ofthe four arms of the crux. Probably there was a low lantern towerhere -which was finished with a parapet. The west doorway is a good specimen of early English work; it hasno portico or narthex. This doorway, which had gone to ruin, wasrepaired, in 1842, by Mr. Montgomery, who had the fragments collectedand rebuilt, as far as possible, in their original position, though thecentre is now somewhat distorted. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Grey Abbey is a ruined Cistercian priory in the village of Greyabbey, County Down, Northern Ireland, currently maintained by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. It is a monument in state care in the townland of Rosemount, beside the Rosemount estate, on the eastern edge of the village of Greyabbey in the Ards and North Down local government district, at grid ref: J5829 6810.
context_section_description: Grey Abbey includes features uncommon to Irish Abbeys including an original belfry.The remains consist of a church with cloister and surrounding buildings to the south. Entry is through an elaborate west door, into an aisleless nave, transepts with two chapels in each and a short chancel with tall lancet windows. The buildings around the cloister include an aisled chapter house and a refectory with reader's pulpit, although the west range and cloister walks have disappeared. Three buttresses on the south wall of the nave are part of a conservation programme carried out early in the 20th century. In the north wall of the choir is an effigy tomb which may be that of Affreca, while an armoured knight figure in the north transept may represent John de Courcy. There are also monuments dedicated to the Montgomery family from the 17th and 18th centuries.
caption: Plan of the abbey, drawn in 1874.
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