St Augustine’s Church, Melbourne, Victoria
St Augustine, St Augustine’s Church, buttress, Catholic, crenel, finial, Gothic, Gothic Revival, T.A. Kelly, Melbourne, parapet, pointed arch, Reid and Stewart, tower, tracery, Vic, Victoria
St Augustine’s Catholic church is in Melbourne’s CBD. It was designed by T.A. Kelly and built by Reid and Stewart. The bluestone church was completed in 1870, with an extension to the tower made in 1936 and the sacristy was added in 1965. The church was built in the Gothic Revival style and features prominent pointed arches highlighted by white stucco, window tracery, buttresses, and a square tower topped by a crenelated parapet and corner pointed finials.
St Augustine’s is named after one of two early medieval saints. St Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was a bishop in Algeria and is considered a Father of the Church due to the influence of his theological teachings. St Augustine of Canterbury (?-604) was amissionary sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 595 to the convert the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelberht of Kent. Augustine was successful and became the first Archbishop in Anglo-Saxon England, establishing himself in Canterbury.
McLeod, Shane
February 2013
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St Augustine’s Church, Melbourne, Victoria
St Augustine, St Augustine’s Church, buttress, Catholic, crenel, finial, Gothic, Gothic Revival, T.A. Kelly, Melbourne, parapet, pointed arch, Reid and Stewart, tower, tracery, Vic, Victoria
St Augustine’s Catholic church is in Melbourne’s CBD. It was designed by T.A. Kelly and built by Reid and Stewart. The bluestone church was completed in 1870, with an extension to the tower made in 1936 and the sacristy was added in 1965. The church was built in the Gothic Revival style and features prominent pointed arches highlighted by white stucco, window tracery, buttresses, and a square tower topped by a crenelated parapet and corner pointed finials.
St Augustine’s is named after one of two early medieval saints. St Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was a bishop in Algeria and is considered a Father of the Church due to the influence of his theological teachings. St Augustine of Canterbury (?-604) was amissionary sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 595 to the convert the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelberht of Kent. Augustine was successful and became the first Archbishop in Anglo-Saxon England, establishing himself in Canterbury.
McLeod, Shane
February 2013
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
(Former) Metropolitan Gas Company building, Melbourne, Victoria
column, finial, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet window, Melbourne, Metropolitan Gas Company, pointed arch, Joseph Reed, Reed, Smart and Taplin, St Paul’s Cathedral, tower, tracery, Vic, Victoria
The former Metropolitan Gas Company building is located at 194 Flinders Street in the Melbourne CBD. It is opposite St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral and was designed by Reed, Smart and Taplin in the Gothic Revival Style to harmonize with the Cathedral. It was completed in 1892, the year after the Cathedral was consecrated. Joseph Reed (1823-1890), part of the team that designed the Metropolitan Gas Company building, supervised the work on Cathedral after the original architect resigned in 1888. Originally in red brick, the façade of The Metropolitan Gas Company building was resurfaced in synthetic stone in the 1930s. The building features pointed arches, lancet windows with tracery, columns, a large square tower and smaller round towers topped by finials, and a stately pointed arch entrance with moulding.
McLeod, Shane
February 10, 2013
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(Former) Bank of New South Wales, Sydney
James Bull Alderson, bank, Bank of New South Wales, column, cupola, moulding, New South Wales, NSW, Varney Parkes, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Sydney, tower
<p>This former Bank of New South Wales building is on the corner of Broadway and Regent Streets in the inner city suburb of Chippendale. It was designed by architects Varney Parkes and James Bull Anderson and was built in 1894. The ornate brick building with moulded plaster work is in the Romanesque Revival style. It has prominent semi-circular arched windows and doorways, multiple columns, and elaborate plasterwork incorporating floral designs. Two rounded corner towers flank the main entrance and end in cupolas on top of the roof.</p>
<p>For the biography of one of the architects see <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959">http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
29 November 2012
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Coop’s Shot Tower, Melbourne, Victoria
Coop’s Shot Tower, crenel, Melbourne, Melbourne Central, parapet, shot tower, Vic, Victoria, tower, turret
<p>Coop’s Shot Tower was completed in 1890 by the Coop family and it operated (making lead shot) until 1960. In 1991 it was incorporated into the Melbourne Central shopping complex in central Melbourne under a conical glass roof. The 50 metre high brick shot tower has been made to look like a medieval tower, with crenelated parapet at the top and a small corner turret. There is also a blind cenellation design in the centre of the tower.</p>
<p>For the Victorian Heritage Database entry see <a href="http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic%23detail_places;768">http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic#detail_places;768</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
10 February 2013
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(Former) Bank of New South Wales, Sydney
James Bull Alderson, bank, Bank of New South Wales, column, cupola, moulding, New South Wales, NSW, Varney Parkes, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Sydney, tower
<p>This former Bank of New South Wales building is on the corner of Broadway and Regent Streets in the inner city suburb of Chippendale. It was designed by architects Varney Parkes and James Bull Anderson and was built in 1894. The ornate brick building with moulded plaster work is in the Romanesque Revival style. It has prominent semi-circular arched windows and doorways, multiple columns, and elaborate plasterwork incorporating floral designs. Two rounded corner towers flank the main entrance and end in cupolas on top of the roof.</p>
<p>For the biography of one of the architects see <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959">http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/parkes-varney-7959</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
29 November 2012
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(Former) Working Men's College, RMIT, Melbourne
Addison and Kemp, Nahum Barnet, Melbourne, Percy Oakden, Francis Ormond, RMIT, RMIT University, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Terry and Oakden, tower, tracery, turret, Vic, Victoria, Working Men’s College.
<p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Working Men’s College (which became RMIT University) in Melbourne,<br />Victoria, opened in 1887. The three-storey building was designed by Terry and<br />Oakden, and Nahun Barnet and financed by Francis Ormond. The tower and La Trobe<br />St frontage were added in 1890 and were designed by Percy Oakden Addison and<br />Kemp. The building is now known as the Francis Ormond Building. The College was<br />built in the Romanesque Revival style and features semi-circular arches and<br />doorways, a corner tower with four corner turrets, and window tracery.</span></p>
McLeod, Shane
10 February 2013
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<a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1300">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1300</a>
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John Storey Memorial Dispensary, Chippendale, Sydney, New South Wales
Blackletter script, Chippendale, clinic, crenel, dispensary, four-centred arch, Gothic script, hospital, memorial, New South Wales, NSW, parapet, John Storey, John Storey Memorial Dispensary, Sydney, tower, Tudor arch
The John Storey Memorial Dispensary is on the corner of Regent and Lee Streets in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Chippendale. The building was completed as in 1926 as a memorial to former New South Wales Premier John Storey. It was built by Sydney Hospital to help the poorer citizens of the area. It is now a methadone clinic. The John Storey Memorial Dispensary is a medieval-styled building with a central tower and crenelated parapets on the tower and down both sides of the building. It has four-centred, or Tudor, arches on the door, doorway and windows. The inscription above the doorway uses Blackletter, or Gothic, script, a script first used in the twelfth century.
McLeod, Shane
17 December 2012
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