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Both Ireland and Scotland produced significant Neoclassical buildings. In Dublin, James Gandon’s Four Courts (1786–96), with its shallow saucer dome raised on a high columnar drum with echoes of Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, and his Custom House (1781–91) owe joint allegiance to the Palladianism of Sir William Chambers and contemporary French Neoclassicism. Edinburgh, the...
The architect James Gandon owed to Beresford’s influence the commissions for the custom house (1781–91) and several other distinguished government buildings in Dublin.
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