Metrology and Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland

Avril Behan () and Rachel Moss ()
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Avril Behan: Dublin Institute of Technology, College of Engineering & Built Environment
Rachel Moss: Trinity College, Department of the History of Art and Architecture

Chapter Chapter 30 in Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, 2015, pp 437-451 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which detailed empirical analysis of the metrology and proportional systems used in the design of Irish ecclesiastical architecture can be analysed to provide historical information not otherwise available. Focussing on a relatively limited sample of window tracery designs as a case study, it will first set out to establish what, if any, systems were in use, and then what light these might shed on the background, training and work practices of the masons, and, by association, the patrons responsible for employing them.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00137-1_30

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