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Kodak House is in the Elizabeth Street mall in central Hobart. The top of the narrow five storey building has two narrow ‘towers’ on each end with a crenelated parapet running between them. In the centre is a shield bearing a…

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Carr Villa Memorial Park is the largest cemetery in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. It features an impressive Entrance Chapel built in 1938 in the Gothic Revival style. The red brick building has pointed arch doorways and windows, buttresses, and…

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Christ Church Illawarra is an isolated church built on a hill near the Tasmanian town of Longford. The small bluestone building was built in 1842 by Edward Dumaresq on his property in the Gothic Revival style. The tower and asp were designed in the…

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St Andrew’s Anglican Church is in the town of Carrick in northern Tasmania. The church was transformed from a schoolhouse by Thomas Reibey of Hadspen in 1845, who became its first minister and was later succeeded by his brother. The tower was…

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The Card Castle is a card and gift shop in the Old Brisbane Arcade in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The two signs for the store feature a castle. Whilst one provides merely the outline of a castle wall and tower with crenelated parapets, the…

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This pigeon tower, or dovecote, is located on the banks of Macquarie River on a property owned by Burlington Farming Pty Ltd near the northern Tasmanian town of Cressy. The tower was originally part of the adjoining Panshanger Estate and was built in…

The 1949 article ‘Tasmania’s Historic Towers’ by M.S.R. Sharland appeared in the Hobart, Tasmania, based newspaper The Mercury. The article discusses a number of stand-alone towers in Tasmania, including two medieval-styled…

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Fortress Risk Insurance Services are based in the Tasmanian city of Launceston and were established in 2011. The logo for the company, as seen in the photograph, is the outline of part of a medieval fortress. It gives the appearance of a castle tower…
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