For the interior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1204
For the exterior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1202
]]>This elaborate altar is in the Catholic Church of the Apostles is in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The foundation stone was laid in 1864 by Tasmania’s first catholic Bishop, Robert William Willson (1794-1866). The altar is in the sanctuary designed by Alexander North (1858-1945) and built in 1886. The altar is topped by a spire and is in the Gothic style, with prominent decorated pointed arches, columns, and finials. Behind the altar are the two stained glass east windows, both of which consist of two lancet windows and tracery, with additional glass above.
For the interior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1204
For the exterior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1202
For the altar see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1207
For the exterior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1202
]]>The Catholic Church of the Apostles is in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The foundation stone was laid in 1864 by Tasmania’s first catholic Bishop, Robert William Willson (1794-1866). The foundation stone for the tower and spire were laid by Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), Archbishop of Sydney, in 1889. The main church building was completed in 1866 and is made of dolerite with freestone dressing. Alexander North (1858-1945) designed the Sanctuary which was built in 1886. The decorated interior has a number of features common in Gothic and Gothic Revival churches including lancet windows with tracery and stained glass, columns supporting pointed arches with molding, and a large west window (between the pipe organs) with tracery and stained glass made up of four smaller lancet windows.
For the altar see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1207
For the exterior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1202
For the interior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1204
For the altar see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1207
]]>The Catholic Church of the Apostles is in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The foundation stone was laid in 1864 by Tasmania’s first catholic Bishop, Robert William Willson (1794-1866). The foundation stone for the tower and spire were laid by Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), Archbishop of Sydney, in 1889. The main church building was completed in 1866 and is made of dolerite with freestone dressing. It is in the Gothic Revival style with a square tower topped by a spire, lancet windows with tracery and stained glass, buttresses, and pointed arch doorways.
For the interior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1204
For the altar see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1207
For the episode transcript see http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s3510122.htm
For the Pugin churches see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1104
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/951
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1117
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1119
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‘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 anniversary of the birth of English architect and designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), one of the main instigators of the Gothic Revival. Although he never visited Australia some consider the best examples of Pugin’s work to be in Tasmania, in part due to their preservation. When his friend Robert William Willson (1794-1866) was chosen as Tasmania’s first Catholic Bishop, Pugin provided him with the materials necessary to establish his diocese. These items, including scale models for three churches, were taken by Willson by ship from England to Hobart in 1844. Pugin artefacts in Tasmania include alter cloths, baptismal fonts, chalice linens, crosses, rood screens, headstones, vestments, and a monstrance (a vessel to hold the communion host, first used in the medieval period), the churches at Oatlands and Colebrook, and elements of the church at Richmond. The programme also deals with Pugin’s lasting legacy, including the enduring notion that Gothic style architecture is the most appropriate for ecclesiastical architecture.
For the episode transcript see http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s3510122.htm
For the Pugin churches see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1104
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/951
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1117
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1119