Shell Foundry - Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, UK - Frieze Art on Waymarking.com

Rifle shell foundry entrance gateway, offices and stores. Architect D Murray. Red brick with Portland stone dressings and a slate roof. Baroque Revival style. A fine entrance has paired Doric and superimposed Ionic columns to each bay, entablature and panelled parapet set forward to the columns; keyed round archways with architraves, larger to the middle, with fine elaborate cast-iron gates by Charles Bailey, 1857, cast at Grissel's Regent's Canal Iron Works. Round-arched keyed first-floor windows with stone pilasters, impost blocks and moulded architraves, and a central first-floor Venetian window. Returns have first-floor round-arched windows as the front.

Formed the entrance to a large ammunition factory. A fine and well-detailed Baroque composition, in a style usually associated with the early C20. Part of the mid C19 expansion of the iron ordnance production facility at the Arsenal.

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