Kells Spire

Collection:Central Lettering Record

Date: 1960s-1980s

Artist: Alan Bartram

Dimensions:

Sheet: 203 × 254 mm (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Medium: black & white photograph

Object number: CLR.2023.900.M.1-4

DescriptionFour instances of the same lettering on a stone building, three plaques mounted on the wall, carved (v-section) letterforms, including date, reading ’THIS SPIRE WAS ERECTED ANNO 1783 AT THE ENTIRE EXPENCE OF THOMAS FIRST EARL BECTIVE IT WAS DESIGNED BY THO COOLEY ESQR AND WAS EXECUTED BY M JOHN WALSH STONE CUTTER’. Location: Kells, Ireland

Kells Spire

By same maker