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Guinness Brewery — James's Street

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Guinness Brewery — James's Street
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Elliptical-vaulted glazed brick-lined tunnel, constructed 1895 to connect upper and lower levels of Guinness brewery. Cast-iron panels to ceiling, cast-iron brackets to west elevation. Channelled granite surround to round-headed entrance to tunnel, yellow brick, laid in English garden wall bond, surrounding opening. Subterranean entrance porch to south, glazed clerestory lights, accessed via dog-leg stairway, flanked by glazed brick walls, brass handrails, granite coping. Vaulted ceiling with red brick spandrels, red brick voussoirs, glazed brick soffits. Cast-iron lamps to walls.

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