Bluett & O'Donoghue Architects
 
 
 

The Boardroom

Kilkenny Courthouse

The Cathedral of the Assumption

The Grange, Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny

St. Mary’s Church

Rothe House

St. Brendan's Church

Church of the Immaculate Conception

The Burton Building, Georges Street, Dublin 2

Elm Park Golf Club

St. Patrick’s College

St. Kierans College

Refurbishment and extension of 19th Century residence

The Hole in the Wall

The Undercroft 

St. Kevins

Kilkenny_Courthouse
 

Chorister's Hall, (The Undercroft), Waterford.

Chorister's Hall, one of the centrepieces of the new Medieval Museum in Waterford, was construted in 1281 by Stephen Fulbourne, Bishop of Waterford. It is a masonry structure comprising a single barrel vaulted chamber with a central arcade of six arches springing from five Dundary stone columns within the space and two pilasters on the north and south walls.

From the outset of the design of the new Medieval Museum, Chorister's Hall was perceived as the principal artefact. Visitors to the Museum end their visit here and it has been conserved with minimum invervention only as necessary to allow safe access.

No contemporary heating, insulation or drainage measures were introduced and only loose and friable material was brushed off the columns and the vault.

The only significant intervention to the fabric of the Undercroft was the lowering of the threshold of the opening in the east wall to allow for universal access from the new museum building.

 

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