Re: Re: Dundalk

Great photo Ros – impossible to get a long shot of the building without a wide lense!

I was exceptionally annoyed (still am) that vast sums were lavished on this building’s exterior and interior, yet they failed to reinstate the Victorian sash windows – instead keeping the chunky timber casements put in probably when the building was rebuilt after fire in the 1940s.
They would have made such a difference 🙁

Otherwise it was a job well done, and the entrance columns, which used to be black, look fantastic in that regal red.

It was built as the town’s Corn Exchange in around 1859-64 just at the end of the Italianate craze, but the company went into liquidation inside a few years when it moved into the town’s ownership. A quite grand auditorium was built inside I believe, but it was gutted by fire and replaced with a vaguely Art Deco interior.