For the crest see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234
For other buildings with medieval features see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240
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Launceston Church Grammar School has two campuses in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. The relatively recent brick Tom Room Building continues the medieval theme found elsewhere on the campus by the use buttresses that end as crenellation. The building also features the school coat of arms/crest of a castle with towers and crenelated parapets on a shield, as well as a drawing of a Gothic pointed arch doorway. The building has drama and multi-purpose classrooms. This photograph was taken on the Mowbray campus.
For the crest see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234
For other buildings with medieval features see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240
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.
For the rest of the exterior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1233
]]>St Mark’s Church of England (now Anglican) is in the small Tasmanian town of Pontville. The ashlar stone church was built between 1839 and 1841 by Joseph Moir and the foundation stone (no longer visible) is thought to have been laid by Governor Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). Due to a dispute over the ownership of the land the church was not consecrated until 1884. St Mark’s was designed by the convict architect James Blackburn (1803-1854) in the Romanesque Revival, or Neo-Norman, style. It is one of the oldest remaining buildings in the style in Australia. It features semi-circular arches on the doorways and windows, Celtic crosses at each gable end, four small square corner towers with arrow slits and pyramid-shaped roofs of iron, stained glass, and buttresses along the sides of the building. Additional features at the rear of the building are blind doorways with semi-circular arches on the towers, a large stained glass window (with protective covering), and an unusual Romanesque square garden feature (or tomb?) in the cemetery with columns and semi-circular arches.
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.
For the rest of the exterior see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1233
For buildings with medieval features on the campus see
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240
]]>Launceston Church Grammar School has two campuses in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. The school crest, or coat of arms, features a shield with the image of a castle with crenelated parapets and square towers. Above the castle is an open book and two bees. Below the shield is a Latin tag which reads ‘Unless the Lord is with us, our labour is in vain’. Featured is an ornate sculptured crest and a more recent simplified version. These photographs were taken on the Mowbray campus.
For buildings with medieval features on the campus see
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240
For a close up of the St George and the dragon sculpture see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1212
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The 1886 malt kiln of the Esk Brewery of James Boag and Son (Boag’s Brewery) is in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. The façade is in the Queen Anne architectural style and includes a number of medieval features, such as buttresses, corner towers, and Romanesque semi-circular arches. The medieval aspects of the building are enhanced by the bas relief sculpture of St George and the dragon. St George is depicted as a medieval knight wearing armour and a helmet and sword. He is riding a horse which is trampling a winged dragon.
For a close up of the St George and the dragon sculpture see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1212
For the interior of the Cathedral see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1198
]]>The Keith Sydney Isles (1902-1977) memorial window is in St David’s Anglican Cathedral, Hobart. The window is made up of three lancet windows with a figure in each. The figure in the tall central window is a knight in late medieval armour and helmet holding a spear and shield. Above the knight is a ring-headed (Celtic) cross, a style common in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, and England from c. 750-1200. Below the each of the figures are two heraldic shields.
For the interior of the Cathedral see http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1198