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>
<p> </p>
McLeod, Shane
November 28, 2012
No Copyright
Digital 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
Boag’s Brewery building, Launceston, Tasmania
Beer, Arthur Biddell, James Boag, Boag’s Brewery, J Boag & Son’s Brewery, confectionary, Launceston, Thomas Wilkes Monds, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, store, Tas, Tasmania.
This building is now part of J Boag & Son’s Brewery in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. It was built as a store in 1886 by the flour miller Thomas Wilkes Monds (1829-1916) and was rented by the confectioner Arthur Biddell. The brick store features Romanesque semi-circular arched windows and doorways on the ground floor of the building. They are accentuated by the pattern of alternate red and pale bricks.
McLeod, Shane
November 18, 2012
No Copyright
Digital Photograph
The Blue Place, Kempton, Tasmania
The Blue Place, Gothic, Gothic Revival, James Hadden, hall, Kempton, lancet window, pointed arch, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Church, Tas, Tasmania.
The Blue Place is a community hall housed in a former Presbyterian Church in the small Tasmanian town of Kempton. The timber church was built in 1886 on land donated by James Hadden (d. 1911), whose mother Jane had been a Presbyterian convict transported from Scotland. The church is in the Gothic Revival style and features lancet windows, a pointed arch door and doorway, and decorated timber at the front of the building.
McLeod, Shane
November 21, 2012
No Copyright
Digital Photograph
(Former) St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church rear window, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania
James Blackburn, capital, columns, convict, John Franklin, Glenorchy, Hobart, Kirk and Fisher, Neo-Norman, Presbyterian, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania, tracery.
<p>The former St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church is in the suburb of Glenorchy in Hobart, Tasmania. The church is in the Romanesque Revival style and is one of the earliest remaining Romanesque Revival buildings in Australia. The style is evident in the rear window of the church, made up of three narrow windows featuring tracery with semi-circular arches, above which are two small circular windows. The window frame also has a semi-circular arch, with columns and capitals on either side of the window.</p>
<p>St Matthew’s was designed by the convict architect James Blackburn (1803-1854) in 1839. The foundation stone was laid by Governor Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in 1839 and the church was built by the Hobart company Kirk and Fisher and completed in 1841.</p>
<p>Romanesque Revival architecture is sometimes referred to as Neo-Norman due to the Normans influence in spreading the Romanesque style through England after their conquest in 1066.</p>
<p>For more of the building see</p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 21, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a></p>
<p> </p>
Digital Photograph
(Former) St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church entrance, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania
James Blackburn, blind arcading, columns, convict, John Franklin, Glenorchy, Hobart, Kirk and Fisher, Neo-Norman, Presbyterian, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania.
<p>The former St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church is in the suburb of Glenorchy in Hobart, Tasmania. It was designed by the convict architect James Blackburn (1803-1854) in 1839. The foundation stone was laid by Governor Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in 1839 and the church was built by the Hobart company Kirk and Fisher and completed in 1841. The church is in the Romanesque Revival style and is one of the earliest remaining Romanesque Revival buildings in Australia. The style is evident in the entrance to the church featuring a semi-circular arched doorway and door, and on the blind arcading above the doorway. The doorway also decorated columns and decorated molding on the doorway arch.</p>
<p>Romanesque Revival architecture is sometimes referred to as Neo-Norman due to the Normans influence in spreading the Romanesque style through England after their conquest in 1066.</p>
<p>For more of the building see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 21, 2012
No Copyright
<a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a>
Digital Photograph
St George and the Dragon sculpture, Boag’s Brewery, Launceston, Tasmania
Armour, beer, James Boag, Boag’s Brewery, dragon, helmet, knight, Launceston, plume, sculpture, St George, sword, Tas, Tasmania.
<p>This sculpture of St George and the Dragon is at the top of the 1886 malt kiln of Boag’s Brewery in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. St George is depicted as a medieval knight wearing armour and a helmet with an open visor and a feather plume. He rides a horse and carries a sword. His horse is trampling a winged dragon.</p>
<p>For the malt kiln see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1216">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1216</a></p>
<p>For other depictions of St George by Boag’s Brewery see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/989">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/989</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/886">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/886</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/884">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/884</a></p>
<p> </p>
McLeod, Shane
November 18, 2012
No Copyright
<a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/989">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/989</a>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/886">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/886</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/884">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/884</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1216">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1216</a></p>
Digital Photograph
Horizontal Retort Building, (Former) Launceston Gasworks, Launceston, Tasmania
Horizontal retort building, Launceston, Launceston Gasworks, Romanesque, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania.
The horizontal retort building is one of a number of derelict buildings on the former Launceston Gasworks site in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. The brick with sandstone edging building was completed in 1860. The building includes Romanesque features, in particular the semi-circular arched windows and doors, many of which have now been bricked up. As can be seen in photograph 3, some Romanesque windows were also included in later (20th century) brick and steel buildings on the site.
McLeod, Shane
November 12, 2012
No Copyright
3xDigital Photograph