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Architecture of Australia

07 September 2009
1835 – Courthouse, Berrima, New South Wales

1835 – Courthouse, Berrima, New South Wales

Architect: Mortimer Lewis The facade consists of four Doric columns with classic Greek bases and capitals. Above is a stone architrave of three courses, the topmost of which protrudes to form the base...

07 September 2009
1851 – St. Francis Xavier Church, Berrima, New South Wales

1851 – St. Francis Xavier Church, Berrima, New South Wales

Architect: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin This is Pugin’s only intact and essentially unaltered building in Australia. In its layout and permanent liturgical furnishings””piscina, sedilia, Easter sepulchre recess, provision for a Doom painting (the...

07 September 2009
1862 – University of Sydney, Main Quadrangle

1862 – University of Sydney, Main Quadrangle

Architect: Edmund Thomas Blacket The architect Edmund Blacket designed the original Neogothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings, which were completed in 1862. While famous for his churches, and sometimes referred to as...

07 September 2009
1868 – St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney

1868 – St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney

Architect: Edmund Thomas Blacket Started in 1837, the plans prepared by the architect James Hume, were of much more modest proportions and were for a traditional cruciform church in the Gothic style. The...

08 September 2009
1870s – North Adelaide Congregational Church, Adelaide, South Australia

1870s – North Adelaide Congregational Church, Adelaide, South Australia

Architect: James Cumming Described as “Venetian in style” in the Adelaide Register of July 1870, and architects Morgan and Gilbert (in Early Adelaide Architecture 1836 – 1886) called it “an example of the...

31 August 2009
1880 – St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1880 – St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Architect: William Butterfield The Architectural style of the Cathedral is best described as Gothic transitional, being partly Early English and partly Decorated. It was designed by the distinguished English architect William Butterfield, who...

07 September 2009
1880 – Yass Courthouse, New South Wales

1880 – Yass Courthouse, New South Wales

Architect: James Barnet

24 August 2009
1884 – Brisbane Town Hall, Queensland, Australia

1884 – Brisbane Town Hall, Queensland, Australia

Architect: Leeming & Leeming

02 September 2009
1884 – Country House, near Sydney, Australia

1884 – Country House, near Sydney, Australia

Architect: Maurice B. Adams Birds-eye front perspective, view from the garden & plan as published in The Building News, May 2nd1884.

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