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Commemoration
Sydney University Commemoration speech. Refers to the undergraduates' role as the terrae filius of "medieval times." With a literal meaning of 'son of the earth', terrae filius has also been used to describe a student asked to deliver a satirical…
University of Sydney: Carving the Gargoyles
This black and white photograph held by the State Library of New South Wales dates from c.1859. Taken by John Smith during the construction of The University of Sydney, it depicts stone masons at work carving the gargoyles. This is taking place…
Sir Kaark the Crow Comic, July 1947
Sir Kaark the Crow is a children's comic strip that featured in the Sydney Morning Herald. Set in a medieval land of dragons, knights, wizards and a bad baron, it combined common medieval themes such as chivalry and gallantry with animal characters…
Sir Kaark the Crow
In this children's comic strip from the Sydney Morning Herald, the medieval themes of chivalry and gallantry are combined with anglicised Australian animal icons. In the comic, a dream is depicted in which Kaark the Crow imagines himself as a…
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St. Andrew's Cathedral, Town Hall and Markets, George Street, Sydney, New South Wales
A photograph of St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney that most likely dates from between 1920 and 1925. St Andrew’s Cathedral is located on George Street in Sydney and is part of the Town Hall group of buildings. It is the oldest cathedral…
Tags: Anglican, Anglicanism, architect, architecture, building, buildings, Cathedral, Christian, Christianity, Church, ecclesiastical building, Edmund T. Blacket, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic Perpendicular style, Gothic Revival, James Hume, neo-Gothic, New South Wales, NSW, pinnacle, religion, Sydney, tower, tracery, window, York Minster Cathedral