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Presentation Convent, Geraldton, Western Australia
An image of Stella Maris College in Geraldton. The purpose-built college for the Geraldton Presentation Sisters was completed in 1912, after the foundation stone had been laid by Bishop William Kelly in 1911. The building was designed by Mother…
Priest House, Mullewa
The Priest House is in the small rural Western Australian town of Mullewa was designed by Monsignor John Cyril Hawes as his personal accommodation. The stone house was built in 1929-1930 after the adjacent church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Sts…
Priest’s Lodge, Morawa
The Priest’s Lodge in the small rural Western Australian town of Morawa was built to the design of Monsignor John Cyril Hawes as accommodation for visiting priests. The diminutive stone building was completed in 1933 and features Gothic…
Promising Colt
In this article concerning the sale of a yearling racehorse in Melbourne, the sire is identified as a horse named “Medieval Knightâ€. The colt was offered for sale by Alan Lechte in Messrs William Inglis and Son’s yearling catalogue…
Pugin Foundation
The Pugin Foundation is a not for profit organisation based in Victoria. Their website is devoted to the works of English architect August Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852). The website has a particular focus on the Pugin-designed churches built in…
Pulpit from Christ Church Congregational Church, Launceston, Tasmania
This wooden pulpit was removed from the former Christ Church Congregational Church in Launceston, Tasmania, in 2002 (having originally been in another church building) and is now on display in the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston.…
Queen Guenever as a nun
This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Malory’s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte d’Arthur. Upon…
Queen Hilda of Virland, poem by Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, wrote this poem in 1910 (MS). The meaning is unclear but Lawson writes of a mythical kingdom of Virland. It could be an allegory of…