A legacy carved in stone
ONE of the most striking buildings in Trinity College is the Museum Building. Built in a Venetian style in the 1850s, it is considered a landmark of Victorian architecture.
But by far the most delightful aspect of the building is less spectacular, and draws not on architectural history, but on nature. It is the idiosyncratic stone carvings that decorate it — showing foliage, flowers, shamrock sprigs and, among them, birds, snakes, frogs, squirrels. A teeming menagerie emerging from stone, fluidly and lightly carved.
