Back Hall, Upstairs, Narryna

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Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart. Other rooms are under the Narryna tag.


Top of the stairs.


Hall gives access to servants quarters on the right and continues through to dressing room.


From hall to dressing room.


Dressing room.


Door leads out to the main staircase.


Down to entrance hall and public/living rooms (breakfast room, drawing room & dining room). Up to bedrooms and nursery.

Beechworth Gaol – Left wing and outside

Now the left. The first part of this is much the same as the right wing (really!) so I'll we can mostly skip that bit.


Now back down stairs and then to the end of the wing


I vaguely remember this might have been a suicide-watch cell.


Now I really can't remember what the point of this screen was. I think it had to do something with special treatment.


These are the two doors on other side of the screen. One has a "window" to watch the occupants. The second door leads to the cell pictured below.


With a door to outside.


Outside. A quick pause to through that doorway there.


The doors on the right, at the top of the stairs, are where we came out.


The gate out!


Free!

Not quite, a few more things to look at first, including a tower.

Beechworth Gaol – Inside

It's a panoptican, except it's not. It's a central hub with two radiating wings.


Before checking out the wings, some photos of the "control room" and the rooms behind, or skip them and go straight to the right wing.


Through the bottom door


There's a information panel on the wall talking about the "Reception Process". I presume that took place in here


Follow the yellow line out.


Now up the stairs.


The other side of the gate.

Now along the right wing.

Beechworth Gaol – Right wing

There's not much to say along there. It's a two-storey corridor with doors along it


That's the gallows from below. You can see the black figure above it in the first photo.


Inside a cell.


That's a door


More doors. The wings were extended in later years, so different building materials.


Heading upstairs.


There's not a lot of originality in Victorian prison architecture (that's Melbourne).


Another cell.


The newer extension on the end.


The condemned cell.


Doomed silhouette.


Back down the stairs.


Bathroom

Now back to the centre and then to the left wing and outside.

Blundells Cottage

Originally from LiveJournal

This one is Blundells Cottage from the park along edge of Lake Burley-Griffin in Canberra. One of the few buildings in the area that pre-date the creation of the Australian Capital Territory. Information from the self-guided tour brochure is in italics.

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This small stone cottage was built about 1860 as a home for workers on the Duntroon Estate. A number of familiar lived in the cottage over the hundred years it was occupied. The first two families, the Ginns and then the Blundells were employees of Robert Campbell, who owned the Duntroon Estate.

 

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The front opens onto this living room, or parlour, and there's a bedroom to the right. Then through that door there to a work room, with another bedroom off to the right. Then through the next door to a little lean-to type hall and the kitchen. And a door to the backyard and shed at the end of the hall. Hence the bright light.

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Another view of the parlour. The objects in this room reflect leisure activities that were popular at the time.

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The bedroom off the parlour. Note the edge of the wall.

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This is the back/work room. This room had various uses over the one hundred years that the cottage was occupied. It is probably that it was a winter bath area during the Blundell era [from 1874], with bath water being carried up from the river and heated over the fire. ... It may have also functioned as a work room for leather working, ironing, and extracting honey from the Blundell family's beehives.

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The original shingle roof can be seen through a space in the Hessian ceiling.

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Still in the workroom, the doors lead to the parlour and second bedroom. Rough walls.

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Also note the different types of flooring.

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The second bedroom, off the work room.

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From the little hall, looking back towards the front door: work room, then parlour, with the bedrooms off to the left.

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Two additional rooms were added in 1888. Initially, [this room] was used as a bedroom. It probably became a kitchen in the 1930s when the Oldfields moved into the cottages. Many of the objects on display would have been in use until the 1940s and '50s. The room through that door which is now used as a office had many different uses during the Blundells' time.

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From outside the back door, looking back into the hall with the kitchen to the left there.

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The backyard with slab shed. The slab building was constructed by splitting tree trunks into thick planks, or slabs. This was common building practise and only used hand too. ... As the Blundell family grew, the old boys slept out here [in the shed] with their father. They probably used camp beds and kept a wood stove alight.

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Inside the slab building.

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Window.

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Wall detail.

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I haven't seen an outdoor oven before. This is behind the workroom chimney. In about 1888 the Blundells had a bread oven built on to the east wall of the cottage.

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Chimneys for work room and parlour.

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This long bit at the back is the kitchen and office room.

George Town Watch House

George Town Watch House, built 1840s.  (Better photo of front.)

Numbers are a guide to the location/direction of the corresponding mimages (the number are to the right of the thumb nails). Room marked as "watch house" on the plan is now the entry & gift shop. The two rooms on the right have been combined into one. The two cells on the right have been combined into one.

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St Andrew’s Presbyterian (now Uniting) Church, Evandale

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Sunday School building to the left. Graves are along the side and behind the church.

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From the entrance, with St Andrews Anglican Church across the road.

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Two aisles, rather than one central aisle.

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Left front corner, if facing pulpit.

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Centre pews and pulpit

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From within a pew.

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Front right corner, if facing pulpit.

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Rear left corner, as leaving. 

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Facing the rear, with main door.

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Graves are down the side of the church building and behind.

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St David’s Cathedral, Hobart

Cnr Macquarie & Murray Streets, Hobart. (Murrary St entrance shown above.) Opened 1874, replacing an older building of the same name

Building started 1868.
Consecrated & opened 1874.
Chancel, Sanctuary & Nixon Chapel completed 1891-4
Bell tower completed 1936

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North side.

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Looking back towards the  entrance.

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Nixon Chapel, commemorating Francis Nixon, first bishop of Tasmania.

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Side, main door to right and door leading to tower on the left wall.

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Corner shown in previous photo.

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Window commemorates Bishop Nixon.

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Displays in the cloisters

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Through to base of bell tower.

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St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Buckland

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Just off the highway at Buckland, formerly Prosser's Plains.
Foundation stone laid 1846. Consecrated 1850.

This little church is best known for its large window which is claimed to date to the 14th century. The myths surrounding the window are looked at in a post on the Stained Glass Australia site. While the window isn't 14th century, the design of the church is.

 

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[This article includes a long description of the church, so it has been split.]

CONSECRATION.
The Church at Prosser's Plains was consecrated on the 15th instant [January 1850]. The singular beauty of the fabric has been heard of in many quarters, and was doubtless a contributing cause to the gathering of a considerable congregation, who came to witness and give thanks for its dedication.

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The Bishop and attendant Clergy, in their vestments, were met at the church-door by several of the inhabitants of the place, whose petition for consecration having been read by Thomas Crittenden, Esq , the Bishop entered the church, followed by the clergy and by the congregation which had assembled outside. The office of consecration usual in this diocese succeeded. Morning Player was said by the Rev. C. Dobson, the present chaplain of Prosser's Plains; the Rev. F. H. Cox read the appropriate lessons; and the Rev. Messrs. Tancred and Davenport assisted the Bishop at the altar. The sermon was preached by the Bishop ; and, the office of the holy communion being ended, the people were dismissed with his benediction. It is not too much to say that many who were present felt deeply the privilege of attending a church and a service in which every outward circumstance and detail of worship brought to their hearts the time-honoured sanctuaries of their native land.

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The church consists of a nave and chancel, with a north porch, mid vestry on the south of the chancel. The length of the interior from east to west is 64 feet, (nave 44 foot, chancel 20 feet;) the width 23½ feet; the height, from the floor to the roof-ridge. about 38 feet. The church is entered by a massive door, with iron bundle, and hinges of scroll-work, after an ancient pattern, ably executed by a country blacksmith.

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Immediately within the church on the right hand, is the font, the gift of the Archdeacon of Hobart Town: it is octagonal, the bowl springing by a well-wrought moulding from the carved shaft, which again dies gracefully into the base; the whole being raised on an octagonal plinth, round which are placed kneeling-stools for sponsors; it is lined with lead, and provided with a water-drain. The pulpit stands in the south-east corner of the nave: this also is octagonal ; the two front panels being carved with tracery in the head, and filled in with velvet embroidered in gold thread with the Scriptures, "I have a message from God unto thee"--and " He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Under the chancel-arch, on the south side, is the Prayer-desk; and beside it, a desk for the Holy Bible, facing the congregation. There are pews of the colonial lightwood on either side of the central alley of the nave: these are uniform, with low backs, and all provided with kneeling-stools ; their simplicity and real comfort presenting a remarkable contrast to the enclosures which more or less hinder the worship of so many of our congregations.

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The windows of the nave are glazed with ground glass. The chancel, which is raised two steps above the nave, is paved with encaustic tiles, from a celebrated Staffordshire manufactory. The Lord's Table stands on another step, and is covered with an exceedingly rich velvet cloth, embroider"! in needlework, with the sacred monogram, and other appropriate ornaments. The Communion vessels are of silver, the workmanship of Mr. Butterfield, an eminent church-architect. The Altar books are remarkable for their costliness and exquisite binding. But the most striking objects in the interior of this Church are the windows of the chancel--a large eastern window of three lights, and a smaller one of two lights in the northern side. These are filled with stained glass, the work of Mr. O'Connor, a London artist.

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The east window represents in the head our Messed Saviour upon the Cross, with His Mother and the Beloved Disciple on either side; and in the three lights St. John the Baptist (in whose name the Church is dedicated) in the principal scenes of his ministry ; viz., Preaching in the Wilderness, Baptising our Lord, mid Suffering Death in the Prison. The north window exhibits the symbols appropriated in Christian art to the four Evangelists.-(Rev. iv 7.)

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When it is added, that the roofs of both nave and chancel are of very high pitch, and open to the ridge, of native wood stained a dark colour, and the rafters, colliers, and braces being thickly set, and producing a good perspective effect, the reader will have no difficulty in comprehending the details of this very interesting village church.

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Of its external features it will suffice to mention the excellent masonry of the walls, which, with their massive staged buttresses, present an appearance of great solidity; the windows with their foliated tracery of the 14th century ; the ornamental gable-crosses at the east of chancel and nave ; and the simple belt-gable at the west-that frequent characteristic of an English village church. The aesthetic effect of the whole was felt by many to be in harmony with the Psalm, "Quam Dilecta," used at the consecration ; and the words "O! how amiable are Thy dwellings, Thou Lord of Hosts !" found a response in many hearts.

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It will be matter of interest lo many to know that the whole cost of the building, exclusive of the ornamental features of the interior, which have been described, was about nine hundred pounds ; half of which sum was con- tributed from public funds, agreeably to the Church Act of the colony, and the remainder chiefly by residents in the neighbourhood. The stained glass, encaustic tiles, altar cloth, linen, and service books, alms-chest, &c, ail of which deserve a more minute description than the scanty notice which has been attempted, were the joint contribution of the late chaplain and architect of the church, various members of his family in England, and by some of his personal friends. The communion-plate was sent out as an offering from his former parishioners in Sussex.

Is it too much to hope that the consecration of this simple and unpretending, but very beautiful church is the beginning of a new era in the ecclesiastical architecture of the colony; und that the unhappy mistakes that have been made in the structure and arrangement of most of our Tasmanian churches will be of less frequent occurrence than heretofore ?
The Courier, 23 January 1850