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(Former) St Peter’s Catholic Church, Kempton, Tasmania
The former St Peter’s Catholic Church is in the small Tasmanian town of Kempton. The foundation stone for the red brick church was laid by Monsignor Gilleran in 1918 and the building was completed in 1923. St Peter’s was designed by…
(Old) State School, Launceston, Tasmania
(Old) Launceston State School is on Paterson Street in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The brick building is in the Gothic Revival style and features a bellcote, lancet windows, tracery, and buttresses. The building is now a Launceston College…
38 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania
This building is at 38 Davey Street in central Hobart. It is at the rear of Parliament House and is part of the proposed Parliament Square redevelopment. The building adjoins the former St Mary’s Hospital building and early photographs show…
Tags: crenellation, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Hobart, lancet windows, parapet, Romanesque, Tas, Tasmania, tower.
A Viking Funeral Ship
An article on page 2 of the Launceston newspaper the Examiner on September 2, 1908. The anonymous public interest article reports on the recent excavation of the Oseberg ship in Norway. The article describes the ninth-century burial ship, found under…
Tags: Examiner, funeral, grave goods, grave robbers, Launceston, Norse, Norway, Oseberg, ship, Tas, Tasmania, viking
‘Home-made medieval war machine goes off with a bang’
This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth…
‘Living by the sword’
The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of…
‘Tasmania’s Historic Towers’.
The 1949 article ‘Tasmania’s Historic Towers’ by M.S.R. Sharland appeared in the Hobart, Tasmania, based newspaper The Mercury. The article discusses a number of stand-alone towers in Tasmania, including two medieval-styled…
‘Tasmanian Gothic’, Compass, ABC TV
‘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…
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