152 Elizabeth St, Sydney, New South Wales
Buttress, capital, crenel, column, Gothic Revival, ionic column, New South Wales, NSW, Oak Barrel Liquor Shop, oriel window, parapet, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Sydney, tower, volute.
The red brick and stone building at 152 Elizabeth St in Sydney, New South Wales, incorporates a number of architectural styles. Most prominent of these is the medieval Romanesque style seen in the semi-circular arched windows on the second and third storey, and the doorway. The two oriel windows are usually found in Gothic Revival architecture, especially when used above a doorway as here. Finally, the entrance features two ionic columns with volute capitals, a style first used in Classical Greece. The building also has a low tower with two buttresses on each end, and the parapet on top of the building has crenels on top of the towers, giving the impression of fortification. Part of the ground floor of the building is now occupied by the Oak Barrel Liquor Shop.
McLeod, Shane
December 17, 2012
No Copyright
Digital Photograph
Launceston Post Office exterior, Launceston, Tasmania
Australia Post, capital, column, Lesley Gordon Corrie, William W. Eldridge, Federation, Free Romanesque, Launceston, Launceston Post Office, lead lighting, Alexander North, oriel window, oval window, post office, Queen Anne Style, Romanesque, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania, tower, Hedley Westbrook.
<p>The Launceston Post Office is in the centre of the Tasmanian city of Launceston, and is one of four Heritage Property Showcase buildings of Australia Post for 2012. It was designed by architect William W. Eldridge (1850-1933) in 1885 with some alterations made by architects Lesley Gordon Corrie (1859-1918) and Alexander North (1858-1945) in 1890, the year the building opened. The round clock tower was designed by Corrie and North with Baroque additions by Hedley Westbrook (1868-1950). It was completed in 1910. The red brick and freestone Post Office is in the Federation Queen Anne style, and incorporating elements of Free Romanesque. Romanesque elements include the semi-circular doorway and windows, including the central window of the oriel windows (photograph 3), and the semi-circular freestone detail between the square windows on the ground level.</p>
<p>For the entrance see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237</a></p>
<p>For the interior see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252</a></p>
<p>For the Australian Heritage Database entry on the building see <a href="http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;search=place_name%3Dlaunceston%2520post%2520office%3Btown%3Dlaunceston%3Bstate%3DTAS%3Bkeyword_PD%3Don%3Bkeyword_SS%3Don%3Bkeyword_PH%3Don%3Blatitude_1dir%3DS%3Blongitude_1dir%3DE%3Blongitude_2dir%3DE%3Blatitude_2dir%3DS%3Bin_region%3Dpart;place_id=105210">http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;search=place_name%3Dlaunceston%2520post%2520office%3Btown%3Dlaunceston%3Bstate%3DTAS%3Bkeyword_PD%3Don%3Bkeyword_SS%3Don%3Bkeyword_PH%3Don%3Blatitude_1dir%3DS%3Blongitude_1dir%3DE%3Blongitude_2dir%3DE%3Blatitude_2dir%3DS%3Bin_region%3Dpart;place_id=105210</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 29, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252</a></p>
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London Court, Perth, Western Australia
Arcade, architecture, Bernard Evans, bypass, Claude de Bernales, clock, cobblestones, corbels, Elizabethan, gable, gargoyles, Hay Street, heraldic shield, horse, Inter-War Old English style, iron gate, jettying, knight, leadlight windows, London Court, oriel window, pageantry, Perth, portcullis retail, shops, St George, St George cross, St George’s Terrace, timber panelling, tourney, Tudor, WA, weather vanes, Western Australia
Image of London Court in Perth, Western Australia. London Court is an open air retail shopping arcade that runs between St George’s Terrace and Hay Street in the centre of Perth. The building was commissioned in 1936 by WA entrepreneur Claude de Bernales and designed by Melbourne based architect Bernard Evans. It was completed in 1937, when the arcade was opened with a ‘Ye Olde English Fayre’. London Court is distinctive for its Inter-War Old English style of architecture. At each end of the arcade is a three-storey entrance with a Tudor facade, a large wrought iron gate, heraldic shields – many bearing the St George cross – and an oriel window containing a large, decorative clock. Inside the narrow arcade, the Tudor facade continues with extensive half-timbering and timber-panelling on the walls, gabled roofs, leadlight windows and corbelled window boxes. Hand-carvings, gargoyles and crests also adorn the walls, and a number of weather vanes can be seen on the roof.
McEwan, Joanne
12 March 2011
No Copyright
Digital Photograph