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Mount Temple Comprehensive School — Malahide Road

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Mount Temple Comprehensive School — Malahide Road
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Attached square-plan four-stage clock tower, built 1862, adjoining Mount Temple School. Pyramidal natural slate roof with finial and curvilinear gables having carved granite coping terminating in carved granite gargoyles. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, with yellow brick and cut granite platbands and carved cornices, and having red brick buttress to north-east elevation. Pointed arch openings to top stage of tower, with chamfered brick surrounds, polychrome brick voussoirs having yellow brick cornice, carved granite panel with trefoil motifs, inset clock faces, square-headed paired openings under clock and having timber louvered vents, and with small oculi to tympani of gables. Paired triangular-headed openings to third stage, with chamfered polychrome brick surrounds and voussoirs, moulded brick cornices, carved granite mullions and chamfered sills, and having stained glass. Triangular-headed openings to second stage with chamfered brick surrounds, polychrome brick voussoirs, granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed arch door opening to ground stage to front (northwest) elevation, with chamfered red brick surround, polychrome brick voussoirs, and double-leaf timber battened door.

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