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Balingup 2012 film

This 11 minute film on YouTube shows highlights of the 2012 Balingup Medieval Carnivale held in the town of Balingup in the south-west of Western Australia on August 25-26. The film was made by Michael Cheffins for ZigZagCommunityArts Inc., and the…

St Davidâ€™s Cathedral interior, Hobart, Tasmania

St Davidâ€™s Anglican Cathedral, Hobart was designed by English architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) in 1865 in the Gothic Revival style. The foundation stone was laid in 1868 by Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the nave was…

Tags: Altar, Anglican, column, font, George Frederick Bodley, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Henry Hunter, Hobart, pointed arch, Prince Alfred, rood screen, St Davidâ€™s Cathedral, stained glass, Tas, Tasmania, tracery, vaulted ceiling.

East Window, St Andrewâ€™s Anglican Church, Westbury, Tasmania

This East Window is in St Andrew’s Church of England (Anglican) in the small Tasmanian town of Westbury. The window is above the altar and reredos in the Sanctuary of the Gothic Revival church. The Sanctuary was completed in 1888 and…

Tags: Altar, Anglican, Church of England, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet window, pointed arch, reredos, St Andrewâ€™s Anglican Church, stained glass, Tas, Tasmania, tracery, Westbury., William Henry Clayton

Festival of Hildegard, Centre for Theology and Ministry, Melbourne, Victoria

The Festival of Hildegard was an educational event held at the Catholic Loreto College’s Centre for Theology and Ministry at St Mary’s College in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, Victoria. The event ran from October 19-21, 2012, closing…

â€˜The Marriage of the Arnolfini â€“ After Jan van Eyckâ€™ by Fiona Hall

This photographic artwork by Australian artist Fiona Hall was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1984. In the photograph Hall has reconstructed her own version of the scene from medieval Dutch painter Jan van Eyckâ€™s famous 1434…

Tags: art, artwork, Bruges, Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, insert, Jan van Eyck, marriage, merchant, modern art, New South Wales, NSW, photograph, portrait, The Arnolfini Portrait, The National Gallery, wedding

Alfred Ibbott memorial window, St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Bothwell, Tasmania

The Alfred Ibbott (1844-1928) memorial window is in St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church in the Tasmanian town of Bothwell. The window (on the left in the photograph) is one of two lancet windows parrallel. The figures are framed by a…

Tags: Alfred Ibbott, Anglican, Bothwell, crenellation, finial, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet window, memorial, parapet, pointed arch, Romanesque, St Michael and All Angels Church, Tas, Tasmania.

(Former) Methodist Church, Whitemore, Tasmania

The Uniting Church in the small town of Whitemore in northern Tasmania was formally a Methodist church. The simple brick building was designed by Launceston architect Percy Oakden (1845-1917) in the Gothic Revival style with buttresses, lancet…

Tags: A.A. Quick, buttress, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet window, Methodist, Methodist Church, Percy Oakden, pointed arch, Tas, Tasmania, Uniting Church, Whitemore.

Europa Re-enactment Association Inc.

Europa Re-Enactment Association Inc. are a living history group based at Springwood in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. The group focus on the period of Viking rule of the city of Jorvik (York) in northern England from 876-954. They re-enact such…

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