Rotunda Hospital

Hospital/infirmary in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1750–1760

Attached eleven-bay three-storey hospital, built 1751-7, having applied Doric portico with pediment to three-bay central pedimented breakfront. Built by John Ensor to designs of Richard Castle. Attached buildings to west forming quadrant colonnade wing, having attached rotunda theatre to east and central three-stage stone cupola with copper dome. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks with lipped pots, partially concealed behind parapet wall with heavily-moulded lead-clad cornice. Copper-domed roof to cupola, having ball capped finial, tooled masonry eaves course over limestone walls with engaged Ionic columns to upper stage and Ionic pilasters to central stage over corbelled cornice to basal stage. Ashlar limestone walls throughout, having deeply channelled rusticated treatment to ground floor surmounted by architrave and unadorned frieze with stepped cornice forming sill course to first floor windows. Engaged Doric columns to portico, surmounted by frieze and cornice with mutule ornamentation, surmounted by ashlar limestone pediment. Diminishing square-headed window opening, having moulded architrave surrounds and granite sills, moulded cornices to first floor openings and channelled voussoirs to rusticated ground floor openings. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Round-headed window openings to breakfront portico at ground f

Type:
Hospital/infirmary

Period:
1750–1760

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.35°N, 6.26°W

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