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Campanile — Trinity College

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Campanile — Trinity College
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Freestanding square-plan two-stage campanile, built 1852-4. Comprising two-stage Portland stone domed roof with carved scaled lantern having carved dentillated eaves course, set over round-headed open arcade with carved archivolts and keystone details supported on Doric pilasters with scroll work brackets. Open balustrade having circular panels to upper stage, surmounted by iron cross finial. Ribs and scrolled brackets with machicolated cornice and dentillated course supported on Corinthian columns. Round-headed arcade with fluted scrolled keystones, egg-and-dart architraves over scalloped reveals, and carved continuous course over decorative roundels and cartouches. Cast-iron tracery and open-work panels to openings. Stepped granite plinth with limestone figures on granite plinths to corners, set over projecting Portland stone cornice with guttae and Tudor rose carving to soffits. Fascia having triglyphs supported on paired carved granite pilasters on plinths. Rusticated granite walls to ground floor level, with ashlar granite plinth course and round-headed arches having rusticated voussoirs and figurative limestone keystones. Ashlar sandstone domed ceiling to interior with mount for light fitting, setts to floor, and square-headed door opening with stepped reveal and recent metal sheet door.

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