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Curvilinear Range & Great Palm House

Glasnevin, Dublin

Curvilinear Range & Great Palm House, Glasnevin, Dublin
Photo : William Murphy — CC BY-SA 2.0
Year
1843–1869 · Palm House 1883
Architect
Richard Turner
Style
Victorian curvilinear iron
Dimensions
Two distinct greenhouse complexes
« The dome of the same Richard Turner who designed Kew's Palm House. »

Built by Dublin ironmaster Richard Turner, who had already designed Kew's Palm House, the Curvilinear Range owes its curved silhouette to his mastery of bent iron; its size was doubled in 1869. Its central dome long featured on Irish postage stamps. A short walk away, the Great Palm House, rebuilt in 1883 with an iron frame cast in Glasgow after a storm, was restored in 2004 and awarded the Europa Nostra prize for architectural conservation.

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53.37° N, 6.27° W

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