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The Printing House

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29: 297:(belfry) for the campus which was constructed around 1746 but was ultimately demolished around 1790 as it was deemed structurally unsound. He also designed a dining hall around 1745 which was replaced around 1765 and presented designs for an entirely new west front and front square for the college which have since been lost. 248:
The builder is recorded as John Plummer, while other craftsmen included Moses Darley as stonecutter and Thomas Gilbert who was involved in procuring stone. Darley, Gilbert and Castle had all previously worked for Lovett Pearce on the nearby
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The building would have been notable for being one of the earliest Palladian style buildings in Dublin using a combination of Portland stone in the English Georgian tradition of the period as well as local materials from the Dublin region.
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with freestanding pillars while more modest local calp limestone is used for the sides of the building with the chimneys and bases of the pillars in more sturdy Irish granite.
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designed Anatomy House which was constructed circa 20 years prior but has since been demolished. It would have originally been to the rear of
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donated £1,000 towards the construction of the building and a plaque with a Latin dedication is still inscribed over the front door.
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as his first solo commission although it may have originally been designed by Castle or
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style temple building that was constructed within the campus of
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In 2023, it was announced that the building would host the
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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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Casey, Christine; Hayes, Melanie (26 January 2023).
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Index


Palladian
Classical
Dublin
Coordinates
53°20′41″N 6°15′21″W / 53.3448227°N 6.2559456°W / 53.3448227; -6.2559456
Portland stone
Richard Castle
Edward Lovett Pearce
Palladian
Trinity College Dublin
Richard Baldwin
Dublin University Press
Richard Castle
Edward Lovett Pearce
Parliament House
Portland stone
pleached
Thomas Burgh
The Rubrics
John Sterne, Bishop of Clogher
campanile
Book of Kells
St Paul's, Covent Garden
"Architecture @ Archiseek.com - 1734 - Printing House, Trinity College Dublin"
"The Troubled Life of Richard Castle, Ireland's Pre-Eminent Early Eighteenth-Century Architect"
"Printing House - Estates & Facilities - Trinity College Dublin"
"Dictionary of Irish Architects"
"Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660–1760"
"Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin 2, DUBLIN"

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