Clone Church

Clone Church is a Romanesque medieval church and National Monument in County Wexford, Ireland.[1][2]

Clone Church
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Clone Church in 2017
Clone Church
52.568347°N 6.504963°W / 52.568347; -6.504963
LocationClone, Ferns, County Wexford
CountryIreland
DenominationChurch of Ireland
Previous denominationPre-Reformation Catholic
History
DedicationMáedóc of Ferns
Architecture
Functional statusinactive
StyleRomanesque
Years built13th century
Specifications
Length16.95 m (55.6 ft)
Width8.3 m (27 ft)
Height1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)
Number of floors1
Materialsstone
Administration
DioceseFerns
Designations
National Monument of Ireland
Official nameClone Church
Reference no.665

Location

Clone Church is located 2.6 km (1.6 mi) south of Ferns, on the south side of the River Bann.[3][4]

History

Clone Church is built on the site of an earlier monastic foundation by Máedóc of Ferns (Aidan, Mogue). It was built in the 13th century in Romanesque style. The sundial was moved to Tintern Abbey in 2001.

A Romanesque window probably from this church was incorporated into St. Peter's, the Church of Ireland parish church of Ferns. Face corbels from the church were incorporated into the wellhouse built over St Mogue's Well.[5]

Church

The church ruins consist of the west gable and part of the south wall. The west door jambs have chevron carvings on the architrave moulding.

Five carved heads, a greyhound and a stone with dog-tooth decoration are over the door.[6]

Graveyard

The graveyard contains two cross slabs and two bullaun stones.[7][8]

An stone sundial (c. 1200) was formerly in the graveyard of Clone Church, a remnant of the old monastery where a clock was needed so that the Liturgy of the Hours could be recited at the correct times. There are twelve hour-lines and a hole for the gnomon, and another hole above it of unknown purpose.[9]

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References
  1. "Holdings: Clone Church and St. Catherine's Abbey, Co. Wexford".
  2. O'Keeffe, Tadhg (1 January 2003). Romanesque Ireland: Architecture and Ideology in the Twelfth Century. Four Courts. ISBN 9781851826179 – via Google Books.
  3. "Clone : Church". Megalithomania. 9 December 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  4. "Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Science". Royal Irish Academy. 1 January 1867 – via Google Books.
  5. "Clone Romanesque Church".
  6. Society, Royal Dublin (1 January 1890). "The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society". The Society. – via Google Books.
  7. "Clone House". Archived from the original on 25 October 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  8. 2012, PIP. "CLONE CHURCH/ANTIQUITIES OF IRELAND.COM".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. "Clone".
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