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David Jones Window Display, Sydney, New South Wales
This window display was in an Elizabeth Street, Sydney, window of the David Jones department store. It shows a medieval-style castle topped with a crenelated parapet being guarded by mice carrying spears and wearing helmets. A lion wearing a crown…
Tags: banner, castle, Christmas, crenel, David Jones, helmet, New South Wales, NSW, parapet, retail, shield, shop, spear, Sydney, window display
(Former) Mortuary Station, Regent St, Sydney
The former Mortuary Station is located behind Sydney’s Central Station in the inner-city suburb of Chippendale on Regent Street, after which it was renamed. The station was designed by James Barnet and completed in 1869. It was part of the…
152 Elizabeth St, Sydney, New South Wales
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…
Australian Mutual Provident Society building, Launceston, Tasmania
This Australian Mutual Provident Society building is in the centre of the Tasmanian city of Launceston. It was designed by local architects Lesley Gordon Corrie (1859-1918) and Alexander North (1858-1945) and built by J. and T. Gunn. It opened in…
Launceston Church Grammar School, Mowbray Campus, Tasmania
The Mowbray campus of the Launceston Church Grammar School in Launceston, Tasmanian, has a number of buildings of different eras with medieval features. These include the administration building whose foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister…
St Matthew’s Catholic Church, Pontville, Tasmania
St Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church is in the small Tasmanian town of Pontville. The sandstone church originally opened in 1876 but it has rebuilt in 1928 following a fire the previous year. It is in the Gothic Revival style with buttresses,…
Launceston Post Office interior, Launceston, Tasmania
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…
Tom Room Building, Launceston Church Grammar School, Tasmania
Launceston Church Grammar School has two campuses in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. The relatively recent brick Tom Room Building continues the medieval theme found elsewhere on the campus by the use buttresses that end as crenellation.…
Tags: buttress, castle, coat of arms, crenellation, crest, drama, education, Gothic, Launceston, Launceston Church Grammar School, Mowbray, parapet, pointed arch, school, shield, Tas, Tasmania, Tom Room, tower.