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'The Five Lamps of Learning' Featured on the Great Gate at the University of Western Australia
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…
"Australian War Memorial: Largest Stone Building in the Southern Hemisphere."
This article from The Canberra Times in 1941 provides an update on the building of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Construction had begun in 1937, and the Memorial was set to be the largest stone building in the southern hemisphere. A…
"Harder than Steel"
This article from the Canberra Times discusses changing methods of sculpting designs into stone. It distinguishes between recent methods (in 1930) in which designs were modelled onto clay and then copied onto stone or marble by masons, and older…
A View of Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, York, Western Australia
An image of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, located on South Street in York, a settlement ninety minutes south-east of Perth in Western Australia.
The Church's foundation stone was laid on St. Patrick's Day in 1875, with the building being…
The Church's foundation stone was laid on St. Patrick's Day in 1875, with the building being…
‘Saint Michael’ Stained Glass Window, St Alban’s Anglican Church, Highgate, Western Australia
An image of the ‘Saint Michael’ stained glass window at St Alban’s Anglican Church, Highgate. This stained glass is one of three windows (the others depicting St Alban and St George) located at the rear of the church. It was…
Abbey Church Facade, New Norcia
The front façade of the Abbey Church, New Norcia. The original church building was constructed from stones and plaster. In 1908, New Norcia’s second Abbot, Bishop Fulgentius Torres, added this Italian Renaissance style façade…