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| QUADRANGLE AND CAMPANILE, TRINITY COLLEGE. -This sketch shows the great quadrangle of the Dublin university called Parliament Square, with the fine Corinthian facades of the chapel and theater, exactly in the same style of architecture facing each other, and the Campanile, or bell-tower, erected in 1852 by Lord Primate Beresford in the middle distance. Interiorly, the chancel of the chapel measures eighty feet in length and its diameter is 36 feet. A semicircular apsis terminates the chancel and in the apse is a tablet and inscription to the memory of Bishop Sterne. The Theatre, or Examination Hall, contains the portraits of many eminent men connected with the college. A full length oil portrait of Queen Elizabeth, said to be a true likeness of that able and wily sovereign in her prime, is one of the art treasures of the gallery. George IV was banquetted in this hall in 1821. Eight Corinthian pillars raised upon pedestals, is set upon a stage of circular steps supported by a basement story of the Doric order, square in plan and built of ruxicated granite. Above the bell chamber raises a graceful dome, crowned by a smaller dome, which is surmounted by a gilt cross. |
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