Kells Spire

Date

1960s-1980s

Collection

Central Lettering Record

Creator(s)

Alan Bartram

Code

CLR.2023.900.M.1-4

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License

Creative Commons

Four 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

Alan Bartram Photographic print Graphic design