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Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare)

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Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare)
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Attached gable-fronted double-height former abbey, originally built c. 1315 and restored c. 1814, with projecting single-bay two-storey flat-roofed block to north. Fifteenth-century cloister to south. Pitched slate roof with crenellated parapets to gables. Rubble stone walls with cut stone stringcourses. Square-headed panels to flat-roofed block east elevation with carved limestone heraldic motifs and surrounds. Lancet and square-headed openings with quarry glazed timber windows. Paired lancet openings to north elevation with quarry glazed timber windows. Pointed arch opening to flat-roofed block with replacement window. Elliptical-arched opening to ground floor of main block with cut stone voussoirs, now blocked. Camber-arched opening to main block, first floor with cut limestone surround, accessed by cut limestone external staircase. Square-headed opening to west with replacement door. Pointed arch opening to flat-roofed block, with cut stone surround and voussoirs. Cloister to south comprising corridors in square-profile, accessed via four-centred arch opening with carved roll moulded surround and label moulding with carved stops and carving to spandrels between. Rubble stone walls to corridors, internal arcaded walls with four-centred-arched openings having trefoil headed tracery and cut limestone voussoirs. Square-headed plaque to interior with incised lettering.

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