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construction clad in slate and comprising 22 curved steel arms. This figure was revised upwards following advice from a railway engineer, Mr
Footner, in the 1870s, who retold an account of the Tay Bridge disaster (which collapsed because its structure had not taken into account the stresses of lateral wind and storms). After Rippon Duke's redevelopment in 1881, the Devonshire Hospital had the largest
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Robert Rippon Duke was commissioned to design a 300-bed hospital to rival Bath and
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in the world at 44 metres (144 ft) in diameter. This exceeded the
Pantheon (43m) and St Peter's Basilica (42m) in Rome, and St Paul's Cathedral (34m). The Devonshire Dome and its surrounding Victorian villas are now the Devonshire Campus - a faculty of the
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