Kilkenny Courthouse

Court house in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1790–1795

Attached seven-bay double-height over projecting raised basement Classical-style courthouse, built 1792, originally detached incorporating fabric of earlier bridewell, 1566, to basement retaining fabric of medieval castle, 1210. Remodelled, 1828, with pedimented tetrastyle Tuscan frontispiece added to centre. Extended, 1855-6, comprising four-bay three-storey return to east. Renovated, pre-1977, with interior remodelled. Pitched slate roof (gabled to pediment; hipped to return) with clay ridge tiles, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including tooled plinth, engaged Tuscan columns forming tetrastyle frontispiece to centre supporting frieze with moulded surround to pediment having modillions, paired engaged Tuscan columns to end bays, frieze, moulded cornice, and blocking course over incorporating panels to end bays having swags. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to bays flanking frontispiece in segmental-headed recesses; rectangular panels over to end bays) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds (incorporating panelled pilasters to tripartite openings supporting frieze and entablature), and six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights to tripartite openings. Series of three square-headed door openings to frontispiece with carved surrounds having friezes, ent

Type:
Court house

Period:
1790–1795

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.65°N, 7.25°W

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