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The Mass, Corpus Christi at Manly

A photograph taken by photographer Ted Hood of the Corpus Christi Mass held at Manly, New South Wales, in 1934.

Corpus Christi is an annual feast day observed by the Catholic Church on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the…

The Medieval Classroom: Lesson Plans/Programmes

A list of lesson plans/teaching programmes for Australian primary and high school teachers in PDF format.

The Medieval Classroom website is the result of a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Scheme grant awarded by the Australian Catholic…

The Medieval Writerâ€™s window, The Great Hall at The University of Sydney

An image of one of a series of colourful and elaborate figural windows with trefoil heads created especially for The University of Sydney by the London firm of Clayton & Bell (c. 1859-60). The window depicts three well-known medieval writers:…

The Modern Permanent Building Society's New Offices, Collins Street, West Melbourne

An engraving featured in The Illustrated Australian News of the recently built Gothic Revival style offices of the Modern Permanent Building Society.

Tags: architect, architecture, building, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Gothic Revival style, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Permanent Building Society

The New Church, Perth, Western Australia

The New Church on Adelaide Terrace in the Perth CBD was designed by Richard Spinney and consecrated on February 25, 1940. The small stone church was built in the Inter-War Gothic style and features a bell tower, buttresses, a small porch, and…

Tags: bell tower, buttresses, Church, Gothic, Inter-War Gothic, leadlighting, Perth, porch, Richard Spanney, The New Church, tower, WA, Western Australia.

The New Queen's College

Illus Australian News 1888 31 March Queens College Unimelb Sketch.pdf

An engraving depicting the then new appearance of Queen's College at the University of Melbourne in 1888. Either side of the gothic style building are the portraits of the architects, Rev. W.A. Quick and E.H. Sugden.

Tags: architect, architecture, E.H. Sugden, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Queen's College, university, University of Melbourne, W.A. Quick

The New Varangian Guard Inc

The New Varangian Guard are an Australian historical re-enactment group with fifteen branches throughout Australia. The group concentrate on the Byzantine (or Eastern Roman) Empire, particularly between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. During most…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul, Norman, Norman Conquest, re-enactment, recreation, Rus, The Varangian Voice, Turkey, Varangian, Varangian Guard, viking

The Old Swan Barracks Hotel, Perth, WA

Images of the Old Swan Barracks Hotel in Perth, Western Australia. The Swan Barracks was originally used as a military training facility. A Volunteer Drill Hall was built in 1896 and this rusticated stone building was added in 1897 to house the…

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