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Alice’s Cottages offer romantic B&B accommodation in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. One of the cottages is called ‘Camelot Cottage’ (named after the castle and court of KingArthur), and it features ‘Merlin’s…

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This photograph of a sign was taken at the rear of the Cascade Brewery. The sign features a warrior on horseback killing a dragon with a lance. The similarity of the sign to the original St George logo used by the Launceston brewery Boag’s,…

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The West Tamar Presbyterian Church, commonly referred to as the Auld Kirk (Scots for old church), is located on the banks of the Tamar River in the small Tasmanian town of Sidmouth. Construction of the church began in 1843 with the support of the…

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(Old) Launceston State School is on Paterson Street in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The brick building is in the Gothic Revival style and features a bellcote, lancet windows, tracery, and buttresses. The building is now a Launceston College…

This brief article by Selina Bryan appears in the online version of ABC News and follows a more expansive television segment on ABC News (Tasmania) broadcast on September 15. The 1.5 minute news broadcast is available on the website. Both stories…

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This house in Launceston, Tasmania, includes Gothic features. In particular, the steeply pitched roof and pointed-arch windows are Gothic in style. Gothic architecture began in Europe during the twelfth century.

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The current Government House of Tasmania, the third in Hobart, was designed by the Director of Public Works William Porden Kay and built between 1855 and 1857 in the Gothic Revival style. Governor Henry Fox Young took up residence on January 2, 1858.…

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St Andrew’s Anglican Church was built in 1871 using bricks from an earlier demolished church on the site, and it was consecrated in May 1872. St Andrew’s was built in the Gothic Revival style, including buttresses, lancet windows, and a…
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