Freemasons' Hall

Masonic lodge/hall in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1865–1870

Attached three-bay three-storey pedimented gable-fronted masonic hall over basement, built 1866-9, with portico entrance, and having three further blocks in line to rear (north). Pitched roof, perpendicular to street behind pedimented gable, with sandstone chimneystack to west having consoled coping and octagonal clay pots, and having valley gutters, cast-iron gutter box and downpipe to portico; slate roofs to rear blocks, first and third blocks having hipped roofs and middle block having lean-to roof. Ashlar yellow English sandstone walling to front. Floors and bays articulated by paired columns flanking central bay and paired pilasters to ends of facade, latter to ground floor having channelled ashlar stonework between pilasters, supporting entablatures to each floor. Columns and pilasters are Tuscan order to ground floor, Ionic to first floor and Corinthian to second floor. Pediment is modillioned and dentillated, with Masonic symbols of eye, compass and hammer to roundel in tympanum. Round-headed window openings to upper floors, with moulded archivolts, scrolled keystones, moulded impost course, scalloped tympana to second floor and balustraded aprons to first floor. Square-headed window openings to ground floor, with decorative foliate carvings to sandstone mullion and transoms, and with similar carvings to panelled aprons. Plain segmental-headed openings to basement with

Type:
Masonic lodge/hall

Period:
1865–1870

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.26°W

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