John Storey Memorial Dispensary, Chippendale, Sydney, New South Wales
Blackletter script, Chippendale, clinic, crenel, dispensary, four-centred arch, Gothic script, hospital, memorial, New South Wales, NSW, parapet, John Storey, John Storey Memorial Dispensary, Sydney, tower, Tudor arch
The John Storey Memorial Dispensary is on the corner of Regent and Lee Streets in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Chippendale. The building was completed as in 1926 as a memorial to former New South Wales Premier John Storey. It was built by Sydney Hospital to help the poorer citizens of the area. It is now a methadone clinic. The John Storey Memorial Dispensary is a medieval-styled building with a central tower and crenelated parapets on the tower and down both sides of the building. It has four-centred, or Tudor, arches on the door, doorway and windows. The inscription above the doorway uses Blackletter, or Gothic, script, a script first used in the twelfth century.
McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
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(Former) St Mary’s Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania
Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford, crenelation, Health Department, Hobart, hospital, William Porden Kay, Lands and Survey Department, parapet, St Mary’s Hospital, Tas, Tasmania.
The former St Mary’s Hospital is on the corner of Davey Street and Salamanca Place, at the rear of Parliament House, in Hobart, Tasmania. Designed by William Porden Kay (1809-1870), it was built as a private sixty bed hospital for Dr Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford (1809-1876), with the foundation stone being laid in 1847. After the hospital closed in 1862 the building was used by the Lands and Survey Department and then the Health Department. The building has a crenelated parapet above the second storey, and another above the pointed arch entrance.
McLeod, Shane
October 6, 2012
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Digital Photograph