. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. tained the third premium for a design for the R yal Exchange in Dublin ;and in 1776 one of the premiums for the new Bethlehem Hospital. I^ondon ; both in com-petition. At the instance of Lord Carlow, afterwards Lord Portarlington, he made plans for Chap. III. GEORGE III. tlie new ducks, stores,ami Custotn-Hmisc. at Dublin, and proceeded there in 17S1 to carry outthe works. This building was not co;ii|ileted until 1791 ; it has a front of .S7.^
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. tained the third premium for a design for the R yal Exchange in Dublin ;and in 1776 one of the premiums for the new Bethlehem Hospital. I^ondon ; both in com-petition. At the instance of Lord Carlow, afterwards Lord Portarlington, he made plans for Chap. III. GEORGE III. tlie new ducks, stores,ami Custotn-Hmisc. at Dublin, and proceeded there in 17S1 to carry outthe works. This building was not co;ii|ileted until 1791 ; it has a front of .S7.^ ft. in length,extending along the (|uay of the river , and is 209 ft. in depth. Standing in a fineopen j)lace, its admirable rn and good execution cause it to rank as equal to otlierworks of a like nature, and to be esteetned as a noble pile that would do credit to any cityin the world He was well assisted in the decorative works by a young scidptor namedEdward Smith The great difficulties he exjierienced during its erection, both from thenature of the soil, as well as from the workpeople, is well described in the memoir oi him. \ \h\\ OV ni, prepared by his son, aid publislied by the late T. J. Mulvany, in 1^4^, To the Houses ofParliament in Dublin he aiUkd tlie side or east portico, with an entrance for the Lords, wli >agreed to Gand ins desire to iiave Corinthian columns to this portico, the addiiional propor-tion in height of which w;is to make up for the great fall in the ground from the front, wherethe Ionic is used. This portico entrance he joined witii tlie front by a circular wall witlto icolumns, so tiiat the two orders should not clash ; the present three (juarter Ionic colunmsto this circular wall the one side, and tliose to the archway on the otlier side, are theadditions by a later hand the building was adapted for tlie Hank of Ireland, whichlias it since 18()2. Gandon subsc(|iiently added the western p
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