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Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, Adelaide hills

Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills. The building functions as a luxury boutique hotel and was designed and built by owner Kenneth Lehmann. Described as having romantic castle-inspired towers and fantasy turrets, the building…

Tags: Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, castle, crenellation, fantasy, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Kenneth Lehmann, recreation, SA, South Australia, Stirling, tower, towers, turret, turrets, Victorian Gothic

Thorngrove Manor Hotel

Image of Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills. The building functions as a luxury boutique hotel and was designed and built by owner Kenneth Lehmann. Described as having romantic castle-inspired towers and fantasy turrets, the…

Tags: Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, castle, crenellation, fantasy, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Kenneth Lehmann, recreation, SA, South Australia, Stirling, tower, towers, turret, turrets, Victorian Gothic

The Red Castle Hotel

Image of the Red Castle Hotel (now Motor Inn) in the Perth suburb of Rivervale. The red brick building gains its name from a medieval castle-like tower with crenellation, arched windows and arrow slits.

Tags: battlement, battlements, castellation, castle, castles, crenellation, hotel, Perth, Red Castle Hotel, Red Castle Motor Inn, Rivervale, tower, WA, Western Australia

The Card Castle, Launceston, Tasmania

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…

Tags: advertising, castle, crenellation, draw-bridge, Launceston, moat, Old Brisbane Arcade, parapet, pointed arch, shop, sign, Tas, Tasmania, The Card Castle, tower.

Statue of St. George, Kryal Castle, Ballarat

An image of the large statue of St. George located inside Kryal Castle, a tourist attraction near Ballarat in Victoria. The figure is atop a horse in full metal armour. At the foot of the statue are plaques describing the legend of 'St. George and…

Tags: Armour, Ballarat, battlements, castle, chivalric, chivalric tradition, chivalry, Christian, Christianity, crenelation, dragon, dragons, drawbridge, entertainment, figure, figures, functions, gate, horse, Keith Ryall, knight, knights, Kryal Castle, legend, leisure, Melbourne, moat, myth, mythology, porticullis, re-creation, recreation, religion, religious, saint, Saint George, saints, St George, St. George, statue, statues, tourism, tower, Vic, Victoria

Stained Glass, Wesley Church, Perth, Western Australia

These interior photographs of Wesley Church show some of the stained glass windows. The window featuring a warrior in full armour and wearing a crown is particularly inspired by the medieval era. The warrior, St George, carries a sword and shield…

Tags: Armour, castle, Church, crenellation, crown, dragon, Gothic, lancet windows, memorial, Methodist, Perth, Richard Roach Jewell, shield, St George, stained glass, sword, tracery, WA, war, Wesley Church, Western Australia., World War I

SIMS Medieval

In SIMS Medieval, the latest instalment of the virtual reality SIMS computer game series, players control a number of different heroes and characters ranging from kings and queens to knights, merchants, priests and blacksmiths. They send these…

Tags: bard, battle, battles, blacksmith, castle, characters, computer, computer game, EA Games, fantasy, game-play, gamers, graphics, heroes, king, kingdom, knight, life-simulation, medieval setting, medievalism, merchant, queen, quest, SIMS, simulation, skirmish, treaty, virtual world, war, weaponry, wizard, wizardry, wizards

Royal Tableau, Kryal Castle

A photograph of a royal, medievalist scene. Sitting in the centre is Keith Ryal, the creator of Kryal Castle near Ballarat.

About Kryal Castle:

Kryal Castle is a tourist attraction located 8km from Ballarat in Victoria. Described as…

Tags: Ballarat, battlements, castle, costume, costumes, crenelation, drawbridge, entertainment, functions, gate, Keith Ryall, Kryal Castle, leisure, Melbourne, moat, porticullis, re-creation, recreation, royal, royalty, tableau, tourism, tower, Vic, Victoria

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