Christ Church St Laurence Parish Hall, Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales
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Christ Church St Laurence Parish Hall is at 505 Pitt Street in the inner-city suburb of Haymarket in Sydney. The building also houses The Actors College of Theatre and Television. Originally the church school, the building was designed by John Burcham Clamp and completed in 1905. The red brick with moulding building is in the (Mock) Tudor style and features four centred Tudor arches in the doorway and most of the windows, buttresses, bas-relief sculpture above some of the upper-floor windows, and two heraldic shields. The building also has a small central tower topped by a crenelated parapet and an octagonal turret. The turret includes small gargoyles. The tower and spire behind the Parish Hall belong to Christ Church St Laurence.
McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
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Christ Church St Laurence Anglican Church, Sydney, New South Wales
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<p>Christ Church St Laurence Anglican Church is at 812 George Street in the inner-city suburb of Haymarket in Sydney, New South Wales. The foundation stone of the church was laid by William Grant Broughton (1788-1853), Australia’s first Bishop, on New Year’s Day 1840, and he consecrated the church on September 10, 1845. The original architect was Henry Robertson, who completed the walls of the nave and the base of the tower. Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817-1883) was responsible for much of the interior, including the stone window tracery and ceiling. Following a fire in 1905 the architect John Burcham Clamp (1869-1931) restored much of the interior. Christ Church St Lawrence is in the Gothic Revival style and the interior features pointed arch windows lancet windows with stone window mouldings, tracery, and stained glass, a timber ceiling with trusses, and a painted wall around the east window. Painted interiors of churches was common during the medieval period before the Reformation, after which many were white-washed in countries which turned from Catholicism.</p>
<p>For their very informative website of the church see <a href="http://www.ccsl.org.au/">http://www.ccsl.org.au/</a></p>
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McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
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Christ Church St Laurence Anglican Church interior, Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales
Anglican, Edmund Thomas Blacket, William Grant Broughton, Bishop Broughton, Christ Church St Laurence, John Burcham Clamp, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Haymarket, lancet windows, New South Wales, NSW, pointed arch, Henry Robertson, stained glass, Sydney, tracery
<p>Christ Church St Laurence Anglican Church is at 812 George Street in the inner-city suburb of Haymarket in Sydney, New South Wales. The foundation stone of the church was laid by William Grant Broughton (1788-1853), Australia’s first Bishop, on New Year’s Day 1840, and he consecrated the church on September 10, 1845. The original architect was Henry Robertson, who completed the walls of the nave and the base of the tower. Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817-1883) was responsible for much of the interior, including the stone window tracery and ceiling. Following a fire in 1905 the architect John Burcham Clamp (1869-1931) restored much of the interior. Christ Church St Lawrence is in the Gothic Revival style and the interior features pointed arch windows lancet windows with stone window mouldings, tracery, and stained glass, a timber ceiling with trusses, and a painted wall around the east window. Painted interiors of churches was common during the medieval period before the Reformation, after which many were white-washed in countries which turned from Catholicism.</p>
<p>For their very informative website of the church see <a href="http://www.ccsl.org.au/">http://www.ccsl.org.au/</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
No Copyright
Digital Photograph; JPEG