The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . in. The City Hall was formerly theRoyal Exchange. It is now made use of by the DublinCorporation, who have transacted their civic business within itswalls since 1S52. The form of this edifice is nearly a square high, perforated by twelve circular windows, ornamented withfestoons of laurel-leaves, the whole crowned with a handsomespherical dome, divided into hexagonal compartments, enrichedand well proportioned, and lighted from the centre by a largecirc
The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . in. The City Hall was formerly theRoyal Exchange. It is now made use of by the DublinCorporation, who have transacted their civic business within itswalls since 1S52. The form of this edifice is nearly a square high, perforated by twelve circular windows, ornamented withfestoons of laurel-leaves, the whole crowned with a handsomespherical dome, divided into hexagonal compartments, enrichedand well proportioned, and lighted from the centre by a largecircular skylight. On each side of the twelve columns whichsupport the dome are impost pilasters, of the Ionic order,rising to upwards of half the height of the column, the sameas those which appear on the outside of tlie building, andcovered with a fluted frieze and enriched cornice. The side-walks of the square are covered with a flat ceiling, the heightof the impost pilasters, with enriched soflets from the pilastersin the centre to others opposite them against the wall. Behindfour of the columns, answering to the angles of the building,. COURTYARD OK THE of 100 feet; there are three fronts, in the Corinthian order,crowned by a dome, which, rising from the centre of a rangeof six columns, with their corresponding pilasters and entab-lature, sustains a noble [jediment; in this front a new entranceof Portland stone has been erected, which contrasts veryfavourably with the old entrance, which was crowned withunsightly railings. Excepting in the want of a pediment, thereis little difference between tlie northern and western elegant balustrade, interrupted only by the pediment of thenorthern front, and resting ujion a very elaborate cornice, runsround the summit. On entering this edifice, the attention isimmediately called to many conspicuous beauties, but, aboveall, to the general form. Twelve fluted ])illars, of the Comi)ositeorder, thirty-two feet high, are circ
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