What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) is a limestone window sill in St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-), refit from a graveslab decorated with an incised lozenge cross-head and fleur-de-lis terminals. Only part of the lozenge and two partial fleur-de-lis survive, yet the crossing shape still catches the eye beneath a chambered room. What is missing may have been a name, a date or a whole figure worn away before the slab was broken and reborn as a sill.

In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). A portion of a limestone graveslab which has been reused as a window sill (L 0.75m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.19m). The graveslab was decorated with an incised lozenge-shaped cross-head with fleur-de-lis terminals. Only part of the lozenge and two partial fleur-de-lis survive. The sill is chamfered on one side and rebated on the other, with a glazing-bar hole. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Early Christian gravestone, 7th–9th century. Reused in St Francis' Abbey, it demonstrates medieval reuse of early Christian monuments and provides evidence of Christian burial practices in the Kilkenny area.

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