Blackrock College pupil campaigns to save hall

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / June 20 2000: Blackrock College pupil campaigns to save hall

A 14-year-old pupil, David Watchorn at Blackrock College in Dublin is campaigning against plans to demolish the school's landmark Jubilee Hall which is not listed for preservation.. The hall was completed in 1914 to mark Blackrock College's 60th anniversary. With its mullioned old English Gothic-style windows, sweeping granite steps and "toothpick" battlements, it evokes images of the playing fields of Eton. Internally, it has a fine wrought-iron balustraded gallery under a vaulted ceiling.

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