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Harpur Centre, Harpur St
The doric columns, complete with accurate entablature - ie triglyph with guttae below, centred over the column, with the slight offset necessary at a corner. Empty metope between the triglyphs. There is no entasis on the columns, of course, and they are plastered and painted concrete, not marble. The fluting, however, is accurate. Those entering Bedford public library, as this was until the late 1960s, would very much have had the sensation of approaching a Greek tetrastyle (4-columned) temple. It's now the portal to the "Harpur Suite" - a concert hall/ ballroom, still the grandest venue in Bedford. Compare also the hexastyle temple in Agrigento, Sicily ("Temple of Concord") |
