Another marvellous old abbey ruin – alas not a great deal of it still standing. Jerpoint abbey was founded in 1160, and colonised by Cistercian monks soon after. It follows the conventional Cistercian layout, but many of the buildings in the medieval abbey no longer exist, including many that would have been around the sides of the cloister. But I still found it interesting.
View of the nave from above
Looking down the nave from the Crossing Tower
Vaulted ceiing of the Crossing Tower
End of the nave seen from the cloister
Part of the South Transept
Tomb in the North Transept
And now for a few details that caught my eye..click on any image to scroll through
Detail from cloister
Another detail from cloister
Side of a tomb
Memorial
Beautiful! 🙂
Glad you like these, Paul!
It IS interesting!
Thanks, Anna!
Nice moody skies to set off the ruins. Well done, Sue.
Best wishes, Pete.
Personally, I would have preferred sunshine to give plenty of shadows, but it wasn1’t going to happen…it peeped through the clouds once!
Wanderful place and photos 👏
Many thanks! Glad you like these
Many thanks!
V. atmospheric studies in b & w. Love the figures round the tomb. One near the right hand corner rather unfortunately reminds me of Captain Pugwash. Sorry that’s spoiling the ambience 😦
Glad you like the atmospheric images…shame you saw Pugwash! Talk about lowering the tone!! 😉
Oops!
Teehee!!
Beautiful Pictures……
Thank you, Sudhir
These are lovely, Sue! Somehow in my head I read them as Jervaulx but I should have realised they’re Irish. 🙂 🙂 Love no. 3 and the last window shot best.
Have you been to Jervaulx, Jo? I did a post on it last year, I think
Distant past, Sue. 🙂
I loved it, most atmospheric, and not over sanitised
These look as if they could be illustrations in an old book, maybe one called “The pleasure of ruins.” It’s a lovely collection. My eye too was caught by your scroll-through – especially woman holding child, and the listing of all the family members there entombed (See! You’ve got me using archaic language). You’ve also captured plenty of arches for my particular pleasure. Thank you.
Oh, brilliant, glad you enjoyed this post – after all, this series is with you in mind, Meg, as a keen ruin lover!
I’m proud to be your audience!
Excellent! And keep up the archaic language! 😊
magnificent
Thanks, Gavin!
The memorium with all the family generations is fascinating Sue!
I thought so, Gilly
Lovely post Sue, BW works very well in these shots!
Yes, I was going to post the colour originals, but they didn’t work as well.
The 5th portrait one is particularly good.
The South Transept? I love that one! Thanks, Paula
Wonderful images Sue!
It was a great place, Adrian!
Loved the saints in their niches from the sarcophagus. I recognised Peter from his keys, Andrew with his X-shaped cross and James with his “cockle hat” but the rest were harder to make out. Black and white gives all the images a timeless feel.
Yes, monochrome does a good job of timeless!
Made for you! Great!
Wasn’t it!