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Swan Bells

The Bell Tower, on the Swan River in Perth, houses the Swan Bells, including twelve medieval bells formally from the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square, London. The bells are known to have existed in the fourteenth century and were…

Tags: bell tower, bells, Captain James Cook, England, London, Perth, royal bells, Spanish Armada, St Martin-in-the-Field, Swan Bells, Swan River, The University of Western Australia, Trafalgar Square, WA, Western Australia

Sydney City Library, Haymarket, New South Wales

The current Sydney City Library building in Haymarket was built for the Commercial Banking Corporation of Sydney in 1875. The sandstone building on the corner of George and Hay Streets incorporates a number of architectural styles that can be traced…

The 1865 Building: Brunswick Uniting Church, Melbourne, Victoria

A view of original church building at the Brunswick Uniting Church, located on Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne. The Brunswick Uniting Church is unusual because two churches stand on the same site. They are of distinctly different appearance but…

The â€˜Advance Australiaâ€™ Arms Window in the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney

The â€˜Australiaâ€™ window; or â€˜Oceaniaâ€™ in the Sydney Town Hall

One of two neo-romanesque with rounded heads and stylised borders designed by Frenchman Lucian Henry and manufactured by Goodlet & Smith for the Sydney Town Hall auditorium, at a time when national fervour was running high in the late nineteenth…

The â€˜Caxton Windowâ€™

An image of the â€˜Caxton Windowâ€™ located in the Mitchell Reading Room at the State Library of New South Wales. This stained glass window was created in a neo-medieval figurative style by John Radecki of Ashwin and Co., Sydney in 1941. It…

Tags: books, education, John Ashwin & Co., John Radecki, Margaret of Burgundy, Mitchell Reading Room, New South Wales, NSW, patronage, print, printing, printing press, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1474), stained glass, State Library of NSW, Sydney, William Caxton (c.1422-1492), window

The Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, Victoria

The Abbotsford Convent, located in the inner city Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford, operated as a convent, reformatory and Magdalen Asylum from 1863 until the mid-1970s. The convent was run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic religious…

The Bethany Church of God, North Perth - Rose Window

An image of a rose window at Bethany Church of God on Raglan Road in North Perth. The Church, designed by architect J. Hine, was originally built in 1913, and has received further renovations in 1935 and in more recent years.

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