The Dome
The most striking visual element of the building, and in itself an iconic symbol of the City.
The golden ball on the very top of the dome stands 200 feet (61 m) above the Old Market Square below.
Apart from Little John, the famous bell and its clock mechanism which was manufactured and installed by William W. Cope of the famous Cope clockmaking family, the dome also contains water tanks (used for fire-prevention sprinkler systems).
The dome continues to dominate Nottingham's skyline, and planning procedures are in place to preserve this unique aspect of the City.
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Famous quotes containing the word dome:
“Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that Root? Is not that the soul of his soul?—A thought too bold,—a dream too wild.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)