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    • November 30, 2011 at 7:21 pm #711455
      Paul Clerkin
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      Just an image i came across, sadly a photograph, not a scan

      CRAWFORD MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE & ART, CORK.
      Arthur Hill, Architect.
      ‘The Architect’ July 12th, 1889.

    • January 24, 2012 at 9:27 pm #817444
      Anonymous
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      [attachment=0:17tdtfy4]CRAWFORD copy2.jpg[/attachment:17tdtfy4]

      Just tweaked it a bit to try and straighten it out 😉

    • January 25, 2012 at 3:38 pm #817445
      Anonymous
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      Was the above drawing actually built?

    • January 25, 2012 at 5:57 pm #817446
      Anonymous
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      Was the above drawing actually built?

      It looks the same.

      http://maps.google.com/?ll=51.899641,-8.472476&spn=0.006911,0.01929&hnear=Cork,+County+Cathair+Chorcaigh,+Ireland&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=51.899603,-8.472636&panoid=Kc4v9ElB8wGmS1JhaU2_yA&cbp=12,304.36,,0,-6.68

    • January 26, 2012 at 2:40 pm #817447
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      That images is as completed at the time. There was an original concept and model. The architect’s scale model of the original proposed building is considerably more ambitious in scale and treatment than the extension actually completed. This model, and the ground plans associated with it, show that the design was to have several turrets, not just the one octagonal turret.

    • January 26, 2012 at 7:49 pm #817448
      Anonymous
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      Thanks for that guys:)

      I had read about the more ambitious proposals as part of the “Buildings” feature. Was the multi-turreted design featured in the scale model an illustration of the expanded College to include Scientific endeavours, or, simply a larger variant of the current building?

      Also, do you have a pic of the model?

      C

    • January 26, 2012 at 9:43 pm #817449
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      The more elaborate design was to include the school of science afaik.

    • February 2, 2012 at 6:42 pm #817450
      Anonymous
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      I never realised that this was built as a single building.

      For some reason when looking at it, I’d always believed that the area right of the turret was older and that the turret and the area to the left was an extension.

    • February 2, 2012 at 7:02 pm #817451
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      You are right, it is not a single building. The turret is the join between the older part and the victorian extension.

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