(Former) Bank of New South Wales, Sydney
James Bull Alderson, bank, Bank of New South Wales, column, cupola, moulding, New South Wales, NSW, Varney Parkes, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Sydney, tower
<p>This former Bank of New South Wales building is on the corner of Broadway and Regent Streets in the inner city suburb of Chippendale. It was designed by architects Varney Parkes and James Bull Anderson and was built in 1894. The ornate brick building with moulded plaster work is in the Romanesque Revival style. It has prominent semi-circular arched windows and doorways, multiple columns, and elaborate plasterwork incorporating floral designs. Two rounded corner towers flank the main entrance and end in cupolas on top of the roof.</p>
<p>For the biography of one of the architects see <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959">http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
29 November 2012
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(Former) Bank of New South Wales, Sydney
James Bull Alderson, bank, Bank of New South Wales, column, cupola, moulding, New South Wales, NSW, Varney Parkes, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Sydney, tower
<p>This former Bank of New South Wales building is on the corner of Broadway and Regent Streets in the inner city suburb of Chippendale. It was designed by architects Varney Parkes and James Bull Anderson and was built in 1894. The ornate brick building with moulded plaster work is in the Romanesque Revival style. It has prominent semi-circular arched windows and doorways, multiple columns, and elaborate plasterwork incorporating floral designs. Two rounded corner towers flank the main entrance and end in cupolas on top of the roof.</p>
<p>For the biography of one of the architects see <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959">http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
29 November 2012
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
John Storey Memorial Dispensary, Chippendale, Sydney, New South Wales
Blackletter script, Chippendale, clinic, crenel, dispensary, four-centred arch, Gothic script, hospital, memorial, New South Wales, NSW, parapet, John Storey, John Storey Memorial Dispensary, Sydney, tower, Tudor arch
The John Storey Memorial Dispensary is on the corner of Regent and Lee Streets in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Chippendale. The building was completed as in 1926 as a memorial to former New South Wales Premier John Storey. It was built by Sydney Hospital to help the poorer citizens of the area. It is now a methadone clinic. The John Storey Memorial Dispensary is a medieval-styled building with a central tower and crenelated parapets on the tower and down both sides of the building. It has four-centred, or Tudor, arches on the door, doorway and windows. The inscription above the doorway uses Blackletter, or Gothic, script, a script first used in the twelfth century.
McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
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Sydney City Library, Haymarket, New South Wales
Bank, capital, CBC Bank, Classical, column, Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Haymarket, library, moulding, New South Wales, NSW, pointed arch, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Sydney, Sydney City Library, Tudor arch
The current Sydney City Library building in Haymarket was built for the Commercial Banking Corporation of Sydney in 1875. The sandstone building on the corner of George and Hay Streets incorporates a number of architectural styles that can be traced back to the medieval period. The ground level of the building has semi-circular arched windows and doorway (not in photograph) in the Romanesque Revival style. Semi-circular arched windows are also featured on the second storey, but the pointed arch mouldings above the windows are in the Gothic Revival style. The small windows on the third storey have Tudor arches. The columns with decorated capitals on the second and third storeys are also common in Romanesque, as well as Classical, architecture.
McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
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St John’s Anglican Church, Kirribilli, Sydney, New South Wales
Anglican, Edmund Thomas Blacket, buttress, Church by the Bridge, Church of St John the Baptist, St John’s Anglican Church, Kirribilli, New South Wales, NSW, porch, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, spire, Sydney, tower
The Church of St John the Baptist, also known as St John’s Anglican Church is in the Sydney, New South Wales, suburb of Kirribilli. It was originally built as a church school and was designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817-1883). It was built in 1884, with the vestry and sanctuary added in 1900 and the parish hall (now a kindergarten) in 1909. Due to its position close to one end of Sydney Harbour Bridge St John’s is also known as the Church by the Bridge and an evangelical group of that name meet at the church. The Church of St John the Baptist is in the Romanesque Revival style and features semi-circular arched windows and doorways, a circular window, buttresses, a porch, and a copper overlaid bell tower topped by a spire.
McLeod, Shane
18 December 2012
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Christ Church St Laurence Parish Hall, Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales
actors College of Theatre and Television, ACTT, buttress, Christ Church St Laurence, John Burcham Clamp, crenel, four-centered arch, gargoyle, Haymarket, heraldry, Mock Tudor, moulding, New South Wales, NSW, parapet, Parish Hall, school, sculpture, shield, Sydney, tower, Tudor, Tudor arch, turret
Christ Church St Laurence Parish Hall is at 505 Pitt Street in the inner-city suburb of Haymarket in Sydney. The building also houses The Actors College of Theatre and Television. Originally the church school, the building was designed by John Burcham Clamp and completed in 1905. The red brick with moulding building is in the (Mock) Tudor style and features four centred Tudor arches in the doorway and most of the windows, buttresses, bas-relief sculpture above some of the upper-floor windows, and two heraldic shields. The building also has a small central tower topped by a crenelated parapet and an octagonal turret. The turret includes small gargoyles. The tower and spire behind the Parish Hall belong to Christ Church St Laurence.
McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
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St John’s Anglican Church, Kirribilli, Sydney, New South Wales
Anglican, Edmund Thomas Blacket, buttress, Church by the Bridge, Church of St John the Baptist, St John’s Anglican Church, Kirribilli, New South Wales, NSW, porch, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, spire, Sydney, tower
The Church of St John the Baptist, also known as St John’s Anglican Church is in the Sydney, New South Wales, suburb of Kirribilli. It was originally built as a church school and was designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817-1883). It was built in 1884, with the vestry and sanctuary added in 1900 and the parish hall (now a kindergarten) in 1909. Due to its position close to one end of Sydney Harbour Bridge St John’s is also known as the Church by the Bridge and an evangelical group of that name meet at the church. The Church of St John the Baptist is in the Romanesque Revival style and features semi-circular arched windows and doorways, a circular window, buttresses, a porch, and a copper overlaid bell tower topped by a spire.
McLeod, Shane
18 December 2012
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Magna Carta scene, Royal Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney
Barons, chain-mail, diorama, Stephen Langton, Magna Carta, Neil Glasser, John I, New South Wales, NSW, QVB, Queen Victoria Building, Royal Clock, spear, Sydney, Thwaites and Reed
The diorama of King John I (1166-1216) signing Magna Carta in 1215 is one of six revolving scenes devoted to English royalty that appear on the hour in the Royal Clock in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building. The clock was designed by Neil Glasser and made by Thwaites and Reed in Hastings, England. In the scene John is shown sitting on a throne flanked by guards with spears and signing the document surrounded by the English barons (in chain-mail) who had revolted against him and the Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton (1150-1228).
The signing of Magna Carta is considered an moment in the history of western democracy. Australia owns a medieval copy of Magna Carta, which is on display in Parliament House, Canberra.
McLeod, Shane
29 December 2012
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