Open-Work Dome in the West Nave of the Great Exhibition Building

Created by John Bell
Created by Coalbrookdale Co. Limited

Date: 1851
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: architecture (building and structural components), sculpture

Material: metal - cast iron

Technique: cast

Description: 'In the west nave there is to be a cast-iron open-work dome, the joint emanation of the Coalbrook Dale Company and Mr. Bell, sculptor. It is supported on six double pillars, is of elaborate rustic cast-iron work, bronzed, and to the top of the weather-vane (formed by a statuette of "Eolus") is 49 feet, weighing 15 tons' (The Builder, 29 March 1851, p. 198).

Citing this record

'Open-Work Dome in the West Nave of the Great Exhibition Building', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib5_1245866059, accessed 24 Nov 2020]