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A Visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, St. Kilda Road

A link to an engraving taken from The Illustrated Australian News depicting the gothic architectural design of the 'Deaf and Dumb Asylum'. The building, now the Victorian College for the Deaf, is on St Kilda Road in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran.…

Tags: architecture, asylum, blue-stone, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, gothic style, lancet window, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Prahran, Saint Kilda, spire, St Kilda, tower, turret, Vic, Victoria

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, film, 1925 - review

West Australian 1925 Mon 9 Nov Prince of Wales Theatre Hunchback of Notre Dame[1].pdf

Victor Hugoâ€™s novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, anglicised to â€˜The Hunchback of Notre Dameâ€™ explores a number of themes: the role of religious fanaticism in medieval theology, passion and, for Hugo, old versus new Paris. Franceâ€™s…

Tags: bell-ringing, Catholics in Australia, Esmeralda, Gothic, Gothic Revival, gothic revival architecture, gypsies, influential novel, medieval right of sanctuary, neo-Gothic, Notre-Dame de Paris, novel, novels, Quasimodo, religious fanaticism, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

â€˜Tasmanian Gothicâ€™, Compass, ABC TV

‘Tasmanian Gothic’ was an episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Compass television programme presented by Geraldine Doogue. The story was researched by Wendy Boynton and aired on June 24, 2012 to celebrate the 200th…

'Golden era of neo-Gothic', Domain Website

This 2010 article by Jenny Brown for the Domain website is about the late nineteenth century Gothic Revival architecture in Melbourne, Victoria. The article focusses on what is now known as the ANZ Gothic Bank on the corner of Collins and Queen…

Tags: ANZ, ANZ Gothic Bank, bank, Domain, English, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Jenny Brown, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Old Stock Exchange, pointed arch, Safe Deposit, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank, Vic, Victoria, website, William Pitt, William Wardell

St Andrew's Uniting (Presbyterian) Church, Campbell Town, Tasmania

St. Andrew's Uniting Church in Campbell Town, Tasmania, was built in 1847 as a Presbyterian Church. It is in the Victorian Gothic Revival style complete with an iron gabled roof, castellated parapet, clock mouldings, lancet windows, and a square…

St Andrew's Church, Campbell Town, Tasmania

St. Andrew's Uniting Church in Campbell Town, Tasmania, was built in 1847 as a Presbyterian Church. It is in the Victorian Gothic Revival style complete with an iron gabled roof, castellated parapet, clock mouldings, lancet windows, and a square…

Design for the Town Hall, Brunswick

This engraving by Samuel Calvert appeared in The Illustrated Australian News on June 23, 1888. It shows the neo-gothic design for the Town Hall in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.

Tags: architect, architecture, Brunswick, Brunswick town hall, engraving, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, gothic buildings, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Samuel Calvert, The Illustrated Australian News, Town Hall, Vic, Victoria

The Opening of Queen's College

A wood engraving from March 1888 by Samuel Calvert of Queen's College at the University of Victoria. An accompanying article in the Melbourne newspaper The Illustrated Australian News reported on the opening ceremony for the new college.…

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