This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard that it set in the use of Irish decorative stone, the employment of native craftspeople and the unprecedented eclecticism of its design.

The geology, quarrying, building, carving and architectural design which created this spectacular structure are explored in a series of papers by established scholars and experts in the field.

This book is richly illustrated in full colour to capture the sumptuous polychromy of the building and the profuse detail of its carved ornament.

Christine Casey is a professor of architectural history at Trinity College Dublin. Patrick Wyse Jackson is an associate professor in geology and head of the School of Natural Sciences at the university.