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Medievalism at the Foundations
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This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Rose Window, Winthrop Hall, the University of Western Australia
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architecture, architect, Assisi, thirteenth century, Rodney Alsop, Basilica of San Francesco, Crawley, dais, great hall, Italian influence, organ, Romanesque style, rose window, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, Western Australia, UWA, WA, window, window tracery, Winthrop Hall
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<p>A view of the large rose window on the eastern wall of Winthrop Hall at The University of Western Australia. Inside the hall, the rose window is a focal point above the dais. Rose windows were popular decorative features of Romanesque and especially Gothic architecture in England and Europe by the thirteenth century.</p>
<p><strong>About Winthrop Hall:</strong></p>
Winthrop Hall was designed by Melbourne architect Rodney Alsop. It was built in a Romanesque style, typified by its rounded arches, columns, arcading, sturdy walls (they are 9ft thick) and large square tower. The architect described the style as being of Italian ancestry, but notably “anglicised and adapted to the local conditions” (See <em>Western Mail</em>, 21 April 1932, pp.14: <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565" target="_blank">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565</a>). Winthrop Hall, Hackett Hall to its east, and the Great Gate and the Arts and Administration Building to its west were designed and built together as a group of University Buildings. They were funded by a bequest from The University of Western Australia’s first Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), and were officially opened at a ceremony on 13 April 1932. Based on photographs taken by Rodney Alsop, Winthrop Hall’s architect, in Italy in 1925, the design for the rose window is likely to be based on one at the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi. (See R. J. Ferguson, <em>Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of the University of Western Australia, </em>University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1993, p.41).The Basilica of San Francesco was built between 1228 and 1253. For an image of its rose window, visit: <a href="http://www.therosewindow.com/index-rose2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.therosewindow.com/index-rose2.htm</a></div>
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McEwan, Joanne
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28 January 2011
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architect
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Crawley
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Rodney Alsop
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rose window
Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916)
The University of Western Australia
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UWA
WA
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window
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Winthrop Hall
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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'The Five Lamps of Learning' Featured on the Great Gate at the University of Western Australia
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Administration Building, architecture, arch, archway, Crawley, “Great Gateâ€, Italian influence, limestone, Mervyn Napier Waller, mosaic, Rodney Alsop, Senate Chamber, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, stone, The University of Western Australia, virtues, Western Australia, Winthrop Hall, Oxford University, Cambridge University, gateway, Tudor, Tudor architecture, university building, university buildings, university college, university colleges, college
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> An image of the window and mosaic featured on the northern side of the Great Gate at the University of Western Australia, Crawley. The University commissioned artist Mervyn Napier Waller to design and produce the mosaic positioned above the window to the Senate chamber in 1931. The mosaic, known as the ‘Five Lamps of Learning’, features five figures who each represent one of the virtues of wisdom, understanding, counsel, courage and knowledge (For more information on the ‘Five Lamps of Learning’ mosaic, see the UWA Archives website: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://archives.uwa.edu.au/page/84543" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">http://archives.uwa.edu.au/page/84543</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, accessed 1/2/2011). </span>
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McEwan, Joanne
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28 January 2011
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“Great Gateâ€
Administration Building
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architecture
archway
Cambridge University
college
Crawley
gateway
Italian influence
limestone
Mervyn Napier Waller
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Oxford University
Rodney Alsop
Senate Chamber
Sir John Winthrop Hackett
stone
The University of Western Australia
Tudor
Tudor architecture
university building
university buildings
university college
university colleges
virtues
Western Australia
Winthrop Hall
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Winthrop Hall, The University of Western Australia
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architect, architecture, bell tower, benefactor, bequest, campanile, clock tower, Conrad Sayce, Crawley, Hackett Hall, Italian influence, Mediterranean style, “Renaissance†style, Rodney Alsop, Romanesque style, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, tower, university buildings, Western Australia, Winthrop Hall
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A view of Winthrop Hall and the clock tower at the University of Western Australia. They are built in an Italian or Mediterranean Romanesque style, typified by rounded arches, arcading, thick walls (they are 9ft thick) and the large square campanile tower. When asked about the style of the design, the architect described it variously as “Renaissanceâ€, and as being of Italian ancestry, but notably “anglicised and adapted to the local conditions†(See Western Mail, 21 April 1932, pp.14: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565). There was at first, as historian Fred Alexander noted, some concern over “the wisdom of preferring a boldly Mediterranean or Spanish type of architecture to the more familiar neo-gothic style generally favoured by academic authoritiesâ€, but these concerns faded as the buildings began to take shape and by the time Winthrop Hall was officially opened on 13 April 1932, it was highly praised as a fitting commemoration to its founder (See Fred Alexander, Campus at Crawley: A Narrative and Critical Appreciation of the First Fifty Years of The University of Western Australia, F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1963, p.136).
Winthrop Hall was designed by Melbourne architects Rodney Alsop and Conrad Sayce, whose joint entry won an architectural competition held by the University Senate in 1927. The impetus for the competition was a large bequest left by the University’s first Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, who had died in 1916. Alsop, the senior of the pair, was employed as the lead architect and they began the project of building Winthrop Hall and the Hackett Buildings together. However, they fell out in the process and Sayce left before the buildings were completed. One of the points on which they disagreed was Alsop’s replacement of the clock tower in the original design with the Italian Campanile style tower that stands today (See R. J. Ferguson, Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of The University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1993).
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McEwan, Joanne
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3 February 2011
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architecture
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bequest
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Hackett Hall
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Rodney Alsop
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Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916)
The University of Western Australia
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Winthrop Hall
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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<p>Newspaper Article:</p>
<p><span><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32049693" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32049693</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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University Buildings. 51 Competitive Designs.
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Adjudicators’ report, Administration Building, architect, architecture, Athelson Saw, benefactor, bequest, commemoration, competition, Conrad Sayce, Crawley, “Early Western Australian Renaissance†style, Great Gate, great hall, Hackett Hall, Leslie Wilkinson, loggia, monument, Rodney Alsop, Romanesque style, Senate, Senate Chamber, senators, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, tower, university buildings, Western Australia, Winthrop Hall
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An account of the resource
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;">In 1926, an architectural competition invited new designs for Winthrop Hall and the Hackett Memorial Buildings at The University of Western Australia. </span><a name="12de6d791188df37__GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A bequest by the University’s first Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, had provided £150,000 for this purpose. This article from the <em>West Australian</em> informs readers of the competition’s outcome. It identifies Melbourne architects Rodney Alsop and Conrad Sayce as the winners, Donald H. McMorran from Harrow-on-the-Hill as the first runner-up and Gummer and Ford from Auckland as the second runner-up. The article reports that 51 designs had been considered by the panel, which was comprised of Professor Leslie Wilkinson, Professor of Architecture, Mr A. R. L. Wright, President of the Royal Institute of Architects of Western Australia and Dr Athelson Saw, the Chancellor of the University, and that they had particularly commended the general layout and the design for the great hall, the loggia and the tower in the winning design. The conditions of the competition had stipulated that the winner would be employed as the architect for the project unless the adjudicators in consultation with the Senators objected. During this discussion, Professor Ross asked what style the winning design represented. Professor Wilkinson is reported to have answered “it is in the style which our grandsons will call ‘Early Western Australian Renaissance’.” <span> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Construction of the buildings began soon after, and Winthrop Hall was officially opened in April 1932. Alsop and Sayce began the project together, although Alsop was the senior architect and assumed responsibility for all correspondence about the project, but fell out in the process and Sayce left before the buildings were completed. One of their disagreements centred on Alsop’s replacement of the original clock tower with an Italian style campanile. For more information, see R. J. Ferguson, <em>Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of The University of Western Australia</em>, (University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1993), pp. 24-33. </span></span></span></p>
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Anon.
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National Library of Australia
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The West Australian
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31 August 1927, p. 11.
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The West Australian
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Newspaper Article
“Early Western Australian Renaissance†style
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Administration Building
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architecture
Athelson Saw
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commemoration
competition
Conrad Sayce
Crawley
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Hackett Hall
Leslie Wilkinson
loggia
monument
Rodney Alsop
Romanesque style
Senate
Senate Chamber
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The University of Western Australia
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Western Australia
Winthrop Hall
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Winthrop Hall Clock Tower, The University of Western Australia
Subject
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architect, architecture, bell tower, benefactor, bequest, campanile, clock tower, Conrad Sayce, Crawley, Hackett Hall, Italian influence, Mediterranean style, “Renaissance†style, Rodney Alsop, Romanesque style, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, tower, university buildings, Western Australia, Winthrop Hall
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A view of Winthrop Hall and the clock tower at the University of Western Australia. They are built in an Italian or Mediterranean Romanesque style, typified by rounded arches, arcading, thick walls (they are 9ft thick) and the large square campanile tower. When asked about the style of the design, the architect described it variously as “Renaissanceâ€, and as being of Italian ancestry, but notably “anglicised and adapted to the local conditions†(See Western Mail, 21 April 1932, pp.14: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565). There was at first, as historian Fred Alexander noted, some concern over “the wisdom of preferring a boldly Mediterranean or Spanish type of architecture to the more familiar neo-gothic style generally favoured by academic authoritiesâ€, but these concerns faded as the buildings began to take shape and by the time Winthrop Hall was officially opened on 13 April 1932, it was highly praised as a fitting commemoration to its founder (See Fred Alexander, Campus at Crawley: A Narrative and Critical Appreciation of the First Fifty Years of The University of Western Australia, F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1963, p.136).
Winthrop Hall was designed by Melbourne architects Rodney Alsop and Conrad Sayce, whose joint entry won an architectural competition held by the University Senate in 1927. The impetus for the competition was a large bequest left by the University’s first Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, who had died in 1916. Alsop, the senior of the pair, was employed as the lead architect and they began the project of building Winthrop Hall and the Hackett Buildings together. However, they fell out in the process and Sayce left before the buildings were completed. One of the points on which they disagreed was Alsop’s replacement of the clock tower in the original design with the Italian Campanile style tower that stands today (See R. J. Ferguson, Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of The University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1993).
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McEwan, Joanne
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3 February 2011
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No Copyright
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Digital Photograph
“Renaissance†style
architect
architecture
bell tower
benefactor
bequest
campanile
clock tower
Conrad Sayce
Crawley
Hackett Hall
Italian influence
Mediterranean style
Rodney Alsop
Romanesque style
Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916)
The University of Western Australia
tower
university buildings
UWA
Western Australia
Winthrop Hall
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Newspaper Article taken from <em>The Western Mail:<br /><br /></em><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565</span></a>
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Hackett Buildings. The Architect’s Description.
Subject
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architecture, architect, gothic architecture, gothic revival, neo-gothic, Arts and Administration Building, cloisters, commemoration, coogee stone, Court of Honour, dais, George Benson, Great Gate, great hall, Hackett Hall, jarrah flooring, library, marble flooring, monument, Mervyn Napier Wallace, Rodney Alsop, Romanesque style, rose window, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, vaulted ceilings, Winthrop Hall
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An account of the resource
This article provides a description of Winthrop Hall and the Hackett Buildings at the University of Western Australia by the architect, Rodney Alsop, shortly after they were opened in 1932. Alsop describes the guidelines he was set, namely that there was to be a multi-functional hall capable of seating a large number of people, two other buildings that would house lecture rooms, offices, the University administration, the Guild and a refectory, and that the buildings were to be monumental in order to adequately commemorate their founder, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916). Alsop explains his rationale for the lay out of the buildings along three sides of the Court of Honour, (with the fourth side open to what was then known as the Perth-Fremantle road) and the addition of ‘cloisters’ along the front of the Hackett Hall and the Arts and Administration Building as an attempt to unify the different buildings. He refers to Winthrop Hall repeatedly as a ‘great hall’ and describes its shape as rectangular with transepts at the ends of the dais “after the tradition of the halls of Englandâ€. He also describes some of its main features, including the rose window and elaborately patterned ceiling in the hall, and the vaulted ceiling, marble floor and colourful mosaics in the foyer.
The architecture is influenced by the Romanesque style of the medieval period, which is suggested by the semi-circular arches, stone columns, arcading, thick walls and large square tower. However, the architect stops short of saying this definitively. On the style from which the architectural design for the buildings was developed, Alsop initially states that “it arose as the natural outcome of the planning, combined with the study of the architecture of older countries, with climate and other conditions not unlike those in Western Australiaâ€. Later in the article, he elaborates slightly: “While the ancestry of the style used is undoubtedly Italian, it has been anglicised and adapted to the local conditions, and cannot be called Italian, Spanish, or any other foreign style. It is my conception of architecture suitable for the University of Western Australia.â€
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Anon.
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National Library of Australia
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The Western Mail
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21 April 1932, pp.13-14.
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The Western Mail
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Newspaper Article
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English
architect
architecture
Arts and Administration Building
Cloisters
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coogee stone
Court of Honour
dais
George Benson
gothic architecture
Gothic Revival
Great Gate
Great Hall
Hackett Hall
jarrah flooring
library
marble flooring
Mervyn Napier Wallace
monument
neo-Gothic
Rodney Alsop
Romanesque style
rose window
Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916)
The University of Western Australia
vaulted ceilings
Winthrop Hall
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Rose Window, Winthrop Hall, the University of Western Australia
Subject
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architecture, architect, Assisi, thirteenth century, Rodney Alsop, Basilica of San Francesco, Crawley, dais, great hall, Italian influence, organ, Romanesque style, rose window, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, Western Australia, UWA, WA, window, window tracery, Winthrop Hall
Description
An account of the resource
<p class="MsoNormal">A view of the large rose window on the eastern wall of Winthrop Hall at The University of Western Australia. Inside the hall, the rose window is a focal point above the dais. Rose windows were popular decorative features of Romanesque and especially Gothic architecture in England and Europe by the thirteenth century.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>About Winthrop Hall:</strong></p>
Winthrop Hall was designed by Melbourne architect Rodney Alsop. It was built in a Romanesque style, typified by its rounded arches, columns, arcading, sturdy walls (they are 9ft thick) and large square tower. The architect described the style as <span lang="EN">being of Italian ancestry, but notably “anglicised and adapted to the local conditions” (See <em>Western Mail</em>, 21 April 1932, pp.14: </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565</span></a><span lang="EN">). </span>Winthrop Hall, Hackett Hall to its east, and the Great Gate and the Arts and Administration Building to its west were designed and built together as a group of University Buildings. They were funded by a bequest from The University of Western Australia’s first Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), and were officially opened at a ceremony on 13 April 1932. Based on photographs taken by Rodney Alsop, Winthrop Hall’s architect, in Italy in 1925, the design for the rose window is likely to be based on one at the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi. (See R. J. Ferguson, <em>Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of the University of Western Australia, </em>University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1993, p.41).The Basilica of San Francesco was built between 1228 and 1253. For an image of its rose window, visit: <a href="http://www.therosewindow.com/index-rose2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.therosewindow.com/index-rose2.htm</a>
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McEwan, Joanne
Date
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28 January 2011
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No Copyright
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architecture
Assisi
Basilica of San Francesco
Crawley
dais
gothic architecture
Gothic Revival
Great Hall
Italian influence
neo-Gothic
organ
Rodney Alsop
Romanesque style
rose window
Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916)
The University of Western Australia
UWA
WA
Western Australia
window
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Winthrop Hall
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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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The Great Gate (north side) and ‘The Five Lamps of Learning’, The University of Western Australia, Crawley Campus.
Subject
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Administration Building, architecture, arch, archway, Crawley, “Great Gateâ€, Italian influence, limestone, Mervyn Napier Waller, mosaic, Rodney Alsop, Senate Chamber, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, stone, The University of Western Australia, virtues, Western Australia, Winthrop Hall, Oxford University, Cambridge University, gateway, Tudor, Tudor architecture, university building, university buildings, university college, university colleges, college
Description
An account of the resource
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A view of the northern side of The Great Gate joining Winthrop Hall to the old Administration building at the University of Western Australia’s Crawley campus. The flanking towers of the Gate are square at the base and octagonal at the top, which was supposed to liken it to the Tudor gateways of Oxford and Cambridge colleges (Rodney Alsop, "The Architecture of the Hackett Buildings", in <em>Opening of Winthrop Hall: Commemorative Volume and Official Programme, 1932</em>). It was designed and constructed in conjunction with Winthrop Hall, Hackett Hall and the Administration Building from a bequest by the University’s first Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916). The buildings were officially opened on 13 April 1932. The University also commissioned artist Mervyn Napier Waller to design and produce the mosaic positioned above the window to the Senate chamber on the northern side of the Great Gate in 1931. The mosaic, known as the ‘Five Lamps of Learning’, features five figures who each represent one of the virtues of wisdom, understanding, counsel, courage and knowledge (For more information on the ‘Five Lamps of Learning’ mosaic, see the UWA Archives website: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://archives.uwa.edu.au/page/84543" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">http://archives.uwa.edu.au/page/84543</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, accessed 1/2/2011). </span></p>
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McEwan, Joanne
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28 January 2011
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No Copyright.
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
“Great Gateâ€
Administration Building
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Cambridge University
college
Crawley
gateway
Italian influence
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Mervyn Napier Waller
mosaic
Oxford University
Rodney Alsop
Senate Chamber
Sir John Winthrop Hackett
stone
The University of Western Australia
Tudor
Tudor architecture
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university buildings
university college
university colleges
virtues
Western Australia
Winthrop Hall