The Ambassador Theatre

Theatre/opera house/concert hall in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1760–1790

Corner-sited attached two-tiered Classical-style rotunda theatre, built 1764-7, designed by John Ensor. Three-bay single-storey entrance portico to south, designed by James Gandon. Attached via curved ashlar granite arcade to adjacent hospital to west. Coade stone frieze, blocking course and cornice added 1787 by Richard Johnston, designer of Assembly rooms to north. Slated round roof with copper cap and gable-fronted dormer windows to central tier, partially concealed behind granite parapet wall with moulded granite cornice having frieze decorated with bucrania, swags and rosettes over ruled-and-lined rendered base with clerestory lights. Ashlar granite walls throughout structure having dressed granite parapet walls to both ground floor and upper tier. Rusticated arcade to ground floor with empty statue niches surmounted by moulded architrave and ashlar granite frieze with inset panels having swag decorations. Dressed masonry string course with moulded bucrania, swags and rosettes over ruled-and-lined walls to upper tier over lined-and-ruled lower section. Curved octostyle granite stone arcade to west comprising ashlar walls with tapered Doric columns to fore surmounted by substantial pediment with architrave, frieze and cornice decorated with triptych and guttae. Currently enclosed by recent wrought-iron railings. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals to upper t

Type:
Theatre/opera house/concert hall

Period:
1760–1790

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.35°N, 6.26°W

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