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Flamingos Dance Bar, Hobart, Tasmania
Flamingos Dance Bar at 201 Liverpool Street, Hobart, is in a medieval-inspired building. It has the appearance of a small fortification or castle, with a central tower and six fortified turrets. The brick building is topped by a crenelated parapet,…
Tags: castle, crenellation, Flamingos Dance Bar, Hobart, parapet, Tas, Tasmania, tower, turret.
St James of Jerusalem Church, Colebrook, Tasmania
St James of Jerusalem Anglican Church is in the village of Colebrook, Tasmania. The sandstone building was built in 1884 in the Gothic Revival style with pointed arch doorways, a bellcote, and lancet windows. Jerusalem is the former name of…
St Barnabas Church, Scottsdale, Tasmania
St Barnabas Church is in the town of Scottsdale, Tasmania. The weatherboard building was built as a Church of England (now Anglican) church in 1892. The church is in the Gothic Revival style with a steeply pitched roof, porch, small spire, and an…
Tags: Anglican, Apse, Church of England, Gothic, Gothic Revival, porch, Scottsdale, spire, St Barnabas Church, Tas, Tasmania.
‘Home-made medieval war machine goes off with a bang’
This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth…
Carr Villa Memorial Park Entrance Chapel, Launceston, Tasmania
Carr Villa Memorial Park is the largest cemetery in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. It features an impressive Entrance Chapel built in 1938 in the Gothic Revival style. The red brick building has pointed arch doorways and windows, buttresses, and…
Carr Villa Memorial Park Entrance Chapel, Launceston, Tasmania
Carr Villa Memorial Park is the largest cemetery in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. It features an impressive Entrance Chapel built in 1938 in the Gothic Revival style. The red brick building has pointed arch doorways and windows, buttresses, and…
Australian Morris Ring
Australian Morris Ring is an organisation that represents Australian Morris dancers. It represents ‘sides’, or Morris dancing teams, in all Australian states and territories except the Northern Territory. The groups perform the Cotswold,…
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Duncan House, Launceston, Tasmania
Duncan House is on Brisbane Street in central Launceston, Tasmania. It was designed by architect Colin Philip in 1934 as the Ford showroom for City Motors. The three storey Art Deco building features a number of medieval Gothic features including a…
Tags: Art Deco, City Motors, Colin Philip, crenellation, Duncan House, Ford, Gothic, Launceston, parapet, pointed arch, Tas, Tasmania.