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The Uniting Church in York, Western Australia was erected in 1888. It was built as a chapel by followers of the Wesleyan Denomination of the Methodist faith. It exhibits architectural features which are typical of the nineteenth-century Gothic…

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The Uniting Church in York, Western Australia was erected in 1888. It was built as a chapel by followers of the Wesleyan Denomination of the Methodist faith. It exhibits architectural features which are typical of the nineteenth-century Gothic…

A wood engraving from March 1888 by Samuel Calvert of Queen's College at the University of Victoria. An accompanying article in the Melbourne newspaper The Illustrated Australian News reported on the opening ceremony for the new college.…

Illus Australian News 1888 31 March Queens College Unimelb Sketch.pdf
An engraving depicting the then new appearance of Queen's College at the University of Melbourne in 1888. Either side of the gothic style building are the portraits of the architects, Rev. W.A. Quick and E.H. Sugden.

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The New Church on Adelaide Terrace in the Perth CBD was designed by Richard Spinney and consecrated on February 25, 1940. The small stone church was built in the Inter-War Gothic style and features a bell tower, buttresses, a small porch, and…

An engraving featured in The Illustrated Australian News of the recently built Gothic Revival style offices of the Modern Permanent Building Society.

West Australian 1925  Mon 9 Nov Prince of Wales Theatre Hunchback of Notre Dame[1].pdf
Victor Hugo’s novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, anglicised to ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ explores a number of themes: the role of religious fanaticism in medieval theology, passion and, for Hugo, old versus new Paris. France’s…

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The Great Synagogue on Elizabeth Street in central Sydney opened in 1878, when it was described as a mix of Romanesque, Gothic, Byzantine, and Moorish motifs (according to the official website – link provided below). The architectural style…
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