National Library of Ireland

Library/archive in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1880–1895

Attached symmetrical E-plan library over raised basement, built 1885-90, facing south and comprising three-stage U-plan rotunda with top storey set back and lower floors flanked by two-storey link blocks flanked in turn by two-storey pavilions each with set-back attic storey and projecting so as to be slightly forward of rotunda, and with concentric half-round-plan flat-roofed Doric colonnade to front of rotunda. Symmetrical west elevation (to street) has seven-bay ground floor, middle three bays slightly recessed, and end bays projecting and having same form and detailing as pavilions (south bays are also west elevation of west pavilion). Link blocks have two-bay ground floor and multiple-bay first floor. Hipped slated roofs with rooflights over west block and southeast pavilion, and leaded roof to rotunda. Balustraded parapets to west elevation and to colonnade, with modillioned cornice. Ashlar granite walling, channel-rusticated to ground floor of pavilions, yellow sandstone dressings to link blocks and rotunda. Brown and red brick storage addition to northeast. Front elevations of pavilions have pediculate pedimented breakfronts to first floor, with moulded friezes atop engaged Corinthian columns; similar pilasters to corners and to side elevations; all elevations of pavilions having moulded stringcourses, and round-headed niches flanking Venetian windows and having recesse

Type:
Library/archive

Period:
1880–1895

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.25°W

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