Ostend music kiosk

* Weapons Square No. Music kiosk in eclectic style executed under the direction of contractor Léon Pannier based on the design by city architect Theobald Van Hille from 1895. Protected as a monument by Royal Decree of 22/09/1981. Octagonal kiosk on a high octagonal base made of Euville stone. Elevated ground floor elaborated with alternating regular and irregular bushwork. Access via a granite staircase with wrought iron railing. Double rowed slender wrought iron columns and balustrades, reportedly originating from the kiosk of the second Kursaal. Covered by an octagonal wooden dome roof with a dome-shaped lantern topped with a spire; zinc covering. Roof edged with broken pediments above which there are pointed arch-shaped pediments. Cartouches with the names of composers from four countries: "GRÉTRY" (Belgium), "GOUNOD" (France), "WAGNER" (Germany), and "ROSSINI" (Italy); centrally crowned by the "lyre of the muses". Octagonal wooden chandelier suspended by thin rods from the lantern. DEPARTMENT ROHM WEST FLANDERS, Cell Monuments and Landscapes, Archive Nos. DW000408, W/00466, and W/00981. LOY M., The carillon of Ostend, in The Guides' Circle, 1992, no. 3, pp. 17-23. VALCKE L., 100 years ago. The kiosk at Weapons Square, in Guides' Magazine Lange Nelle, 1995, no. 3, pp. 126-128.

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