The palette

Deepslate bricks, cobbled deepslate, deepslate tiles and polished deepslate for the battered plinth; tuff bricks, polished tuff, tuff and chiseled tuff bricks for the tower, tuff brick stairs for string courses and corbels; lime, orange, magenta and light blue stained glass lit by verdant, ochre and pearlescent froglights; exposed cut copper, copper blocks and copper grates for the pipes; cut copper and chiseled copper for the still and the tank; waxed weathered cut copper and glass for the glasshouse; oxidized cut copper with waxed cut copper ribs for the dome; iron bars for railings and the lantern, glowstone, a gold block and lightning rods for the finial.

Techniques

• A battered plinth
• A colour per floor
• String courses and corbels
• Three coppers
• A dome as a stepped roof

The steps

1. Battered deepslate plinth
2. Tower: the ground floor and its door
3. Tower: the laboratory floor
4. Tower: the still room
5. Tower: the top floor
6. String courses round the tower
7. Glasshouse: stone sill and copper posts
8. Glasshouse: the glass vault on copper ribs
9. Laboratory benches and flasks
10. East balcony on stepped corbels
11. The copper still: pot, helmet and swan neck
12. The riveted copper tank and its dome
13. Copper pipes up the walls
14. Corbelled gallery
15. Drum of blue windows
16. Oxidised copper dome on its ribs
17. Lantern and the lightning-rod finial

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