Pulpit from Christ Church Congregational Church, Launceston, Tasmania
Christ Church Congregational Church, column, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Alexander Kidd, Alexander Kidd (Jnr), Launceston, John Leeming, pointed arch, pulpit, QVMAG, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tas, Tasmania, tracery, John West
<p>This wooden pulpit was removed from the former Christ Church Congregational Church in Launceston, Tasmania, in 2002 (having originally been in another church building) and is now on display in the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. The pulpit was made by Alexander Kidd, a foundational member of the new Congregational Church established in Launceston by John West (1809-1873) in 1839. West had emigrated from England as a missionary preacher the previous year. The pulpit’s pedestal and octagonal shape were added by Alexander Kidd (Jnr) in 1906. The pulpit is in the Gothic Revival style with the carved pointed arches and columns reminiscent of the architectural features of Gothic churches built in Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries.</p>
<p>For John West see <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/west-john-2784">http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/west-john-2784</a></p>
<p>For the Christ Church Congregational Church see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1045">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1045</a></p>
Leeming, John
2 February 2013
John Leeming; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
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Ascomanni Medieval Re-enactment Society
Anglo-Saxons, Ascomanni Medieval Re-enactment Society, Battle of Hastings, Battle of Stamford Bridge, combat, costume, Launceston, living history, Normans, Oseberg Ship Burial, Oseberg Tapestry, re-creation, re-enactment, Saxons, Tas, Tasmania, Viking Age, Vikings, website.
<p>Ascomanni Medieval Re-enactment Society is a living history group based in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The group focus on Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and Vikings during the later Viking Age, specifically the period 966-1066 ending with the Norwegian defeat at Stamford Bridge and the Norman victory at Hastings. Ascomanni (a term used for the Vikings by the eleventh-century German chronicler Adam of Bremen) focus both on the daily life and martial aspects of the Viking Age.</p>
<p>Their website banner is an image of the reconstructed Oseberg Tapestry which was found in the Oseberg ship burial in Norway, c. 834.</p>
<p>For their website see http://ascomanni.webs.com/</p>
Ascomanni Medieval Re-enactment Society
Ascomanni Medieval Re-enactment Society, Copyright ©2011
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Australian Mutual Provident Society building, Launceston, Tasmania
Australian Mutual Provident Society, column, Lesley Gordon Corrie, Florence, Florentine Romanesque, frieze, J. and T. Gunn, Launceston, Launceston Examiner, lead lighting, newspaper, Alexander North, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania.
<p>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 1892. An anonymous report in the Launceston Examiner newspaper (November 19, 1892) gives the particulars of the building, which is described as being in the Florentine Romanesque style. Romanesque features of the stone building include the semi-circular window arches with molding and decorated columns on the upper floor, the semi-circular arch above the company monogram, the use of foliage motifs, and the frieze above the entrance.</p>
<p>Florence has a number of extant Romanesque buildings built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The buildings provided inspiration for some of the Florentine architects of the Renaissance.</p>
<p>For the newspaper report see <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39478203">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39478203</a></p>
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McLeod, Shane
November 28, 2012
No Copyright
Digital Photograph
Launceston Church Grammar School, Mowbray Campus, Tasmania
Bay window, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, buttress, Henrietta Cooper, Henrietta Cooper Music School, crenellation, education, four-centred arch, Gothic Revival, Launceston, Launceston Church Grammar School, music, Mowbray, parapet, pointed arch, school, Tas, Tasmania, tower, Tudor arch.
<p>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 Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1883-1967) in 1923, and the more recent Henrietta Cooper Music School and the small corner tower. All of these buildings feature buttresses and rounded Tudor, or four-centred, arch doorways, and the buttresses of the corner tower continue to form crenellation, whilst the corner buttress at the entrance to the administration building ends in a pointed arch. The music school also has a bay window, a common feature of Gothic Revival architecture.</p>
<p>For more of the campus see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 17, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240</a></p>
3xDigital photograph
Launceston Post Office interior, Launceston, Tasmania
Australia Post, Byzantine, Lesley Gordon Corrie, William W. Eldridge, Free Romanesque, Launceston, Launceston Post Office, lead lighting, Alexander North, post office, quadrangle, Queen Anne Style, Romanesque, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania.
<p>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 alterations made by architects Lesley Gordon Corrie (1859-1918) and Alexander North (1858-1945) in 1890, the year the building opened. The red brick and freestone Post Office is in the Federation Queen Anne style, and incorporating elements of Free Romanesque. The Romanesque elements are obvious in the unusual interior which features an internal quadrangle (now glassed in) with balconies and windows. These elements include prominent use of semi-circular arches in the doorways and windows, and a pattern of alternating red brick and freestone, also known as ‘blood and bandage’, to highlight these features. The interior also includes leadlight windows.</p>
<p>For the exterior see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1242">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1242</a></p>
<p>For the Australian Heritage Database entry on the building see <a href="http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;search=place_name%3Dlaunceston%2520post%2520office%3Btown%3Dlaunceston%3Bstate%3DTAS%3Bkeyword_PD%3Don%3Bkeyword_SS%3Don%3Bkeyword_PH%3Don%3Blatitude_1dir%3DS%3Blongitude_1dir%3DE%3Blongitude_2dir%3DE%3Blatitude_2dir%3DS%3Bin_region%3Dpart;place_id=105210">http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;search=place_name%3Dlaunceston%2520post%2520office%3Btown%3Dlaunceston%3Bstate%3DTAS%3Bkeyword_PD%3Don%3Bkeyword_SS%3Don%3Bkeyword_PH%3Don%3Blatitude_1dir%3DS%3Blongitude_1dir%3DE%3Blongitude_2dir%3DE%3Blatitude_2dir%3DS%3Bin_region%3Dpart;place_id=105210</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 29, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1242">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1242</a></p>
<p> </p>
4xDigital Photograph
Tom Room Building, Launceston Church Grammar School, Tasmania
Buttress, castle, coat of arms, crenellation, crest, drama, education, Gothic, Launceston, Launceston Church Grammar School, Mowbray, parapet, pointed arch, Tom Room, school, shield, Tas, Tasmania, tower.
<p>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. The building also features the school coat of arms/crest of a castle with towers and crenelated parapets on a shield, as well as a drawing of a Gothic pointed arch doorway. The building has drama and multi-purpose classrooms. This photograph was taken on the Mowbray campus.</p>
<p>For the crest see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p>For other buildings with medieval features see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240</a></p>
<p> </p>
McLeod, Shane
November 17, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256</a></p>
<p> </p>
Digital Photograph
Launceston Post Office exterior, Launceston, Tasmania
Australia Post, capital, column, Lesley Gordon Corrie, William W. Eldridge, Federation, Free Romanesque, Launceston, Launceston Post Office, lead lighting, Alexander North, oriel window, oval window, post office, Queen Anne Style, Romanesque, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania, tower, Hedley Westbrook.
<p>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 alterations made by architects Lesley Gordon Corrie (1859-1918) and Alexander North (1858-1945) in 1890, the year the building opened. The round clock tower was designed by Corrie and North with Baroque additions by Hedley Westbrook (1868-1950). It was completed in 1910. The red brick and freestone Post Office is in the Federation Queen Anne style, and incorporating elements of Free Romanesque. Romanesque elements include the semi-circular doorway and windows, including the central window of the oriel windows (photograph 3), and the semi-circular freestone detail between the square windows on the ground level.</p>
<p>For the entrance see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237</a></p>
<p>For the interior see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252</a></p>
<p>For the Australian Heritage Database entry on the building see <a href="http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;search=place_name%3Dlaunceston%2520post%2520office%3Btown%3Dlaunceston%3Bstate%3DTAS%3Bkeyword_PD%3Don%3Bkeyword_SS%3Don%3Bkeyword_PH%3Don%3Blatitude_1dir%3DS%3Blongitude_1dir%3DE%3Blongitude_2dir%3DE%3Blatitude_2dir%3DS%3Bin_region%3Dpart;place_id=105210">http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;search=place_name%3Dlaunceston%2520post%2520office%3Btown%3Dlaunceston%3Bstate%3DTAS%3Bkeyword_PD%3Don%3Bkeyword_SS%3Don%3Bkeyword_PH%3Don%3Blatitude_1dir%3DS%3Blongitude_1dir%3DE%3Blongitude_2dir%3DE%3Blatitude_2dir%3DS%3Bin_region%3Dpart;place_id=105210</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 29, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1237</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1252</a></p>
3xDigital Photograph
Launceston Church Grammar School tower, Mowbray, Launceston, Tasmania
Buttress, education, Launceston, Launceston Church Grammar School, Mowbray, school, Tas, Tasmania, tower, turret.
<p>Launceston Church Grammar School has two campuses in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. This photograph of a modern interpretation of a medieval tower was taken on the Mowbray campus. The brick square clock tower has eight corner buttresses, most prominent on the lower part of the structure, which end in four corner turrets off the top of the tower.</p>
<p>For more medieval features of the school see</p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 17, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1250</a></p>
Digital Photograph