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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 Great Hall of the Exhibition on the 1st of August

Engraving in the Illustrated Australian News of the Great Hall as it appeared during the exhibition of 1888.

Tags: 1888, architect, architecture, exhibition, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Great Hall, Great Hall exhibition, neo-Gothic

The New Queen's College

Illus Australian News 1888 31 March Queens College Unimelb Sketch.pdf

An engraving depicting the then new appearance of Queen's College at the University of Melbourne in 1888. Either side of the gothic style building are the portraits of the architects, Rev. W.A. Quick and E.H. Sugden.

Tags: architect, architecture, E.H. Sugden, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Queen's College, university, University of Melbourne, W.A. Quick

The Modern Permanent Building Society's New Offices, Collins Street, West Melbourne

An engraving featured in The Illustrated Australian News of the recently built Gothic Revival style offices of the Modern Permanent Building Society.

Tags: architect, architecture, building, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Gothic Revival style, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Permanent Building Society

Illustration of St Paul's Church, Melbourne

Depiction of St Paul's Anglican Church, Melbourne. The architectural style is typical of the gothic revival style common in Britain and the British colonies throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Tags: Anglican, Anglican church, architecture, Church, engraving, engravings, F.A. Sleap, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, saint, Saint Paul, St Paul, St. Paul, Victoria

Bell Turret, St John the Evangelist Anglican, Fremantle, Western Australia

A view of the bell turret at St John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was added to the existing church structure, c.1906. In England, bell turrets were often added to parish churches that did not have adjoining bell…

Bell Turret, St John the Evangelist Anglican, Fremantle, WA

A view of the bell turret at St John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was added to the existing church structure, c.1906. In England, bell turrets were often added to parish churches that did not have adjoining bell…

Rose Window, St John the Evangelist Anglican, Fremantle, Western Australia

A view of the rose window on the western faÃ§ade of St John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Fremantle, Western Australia. Rose windows were popular decorative features in Romanesque and especially Gothic church architecture by the thirteenth…

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