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Franklin Square and the Treasury buildings were built on the site of the Old Government House, which was demolished in 1858. [5] Originally named George's Square in honour of King George IV, Governor Lachlan Macquarie envisioned the site being utilised for a church, courthouse, town hall, public market, as well as a main guard for stationed troops and a public garrison parade area, as regular ...
He divided Hobart Town into a principal square, and seven streets to be named Macquarie, Elizabeth, Argyle, Liverpool, Murray, Harrington, and Collins, and framed a regular plan of the town. Buildings were to be properly built, or repaired, and there was to be a new church and courthouse.
The church is designed in the Victorian Gothic Revival style by Charles Tiffin and William Montgomery Davenport Davidson. It features Risdon freestone with a slate roof. Its most notable feature is the 29-metre (94 ft), which makes it a recognisable landmark to the Davey St streetscape. Inside, the church originally accommodated up to 700 people.
The Cathedral Church of St David is the Anglican cathedral church located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The cathedral is the mother-church for the Diocese of Tasmania. Consecrated in 1874, St David's is the seat of the Bishop of Tasmania, currently the Right Reverend Richard Condie. The dean is the Very Reverend Richard Humphrey.
1860s photograph of Hobart's Campbell Street Gaol and early Hobart. The original portion of the gaol, at first known as the Hobart Town Prisoner's Barracks, was built by convicts in 1821 [1] and accommodated 640 men. As thousands of convicts were arriving each year, the barracks was found to be too small almost immediately, and it was extended ...
St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Hobart This page was last edited on 24 December 2016, at 14:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
As an early named street in Hobart, it was the location of a number of significant activities and buildings in the colonial era. The Brisbane Street Chapel, [5] [6] [7] the Brisbane Street Congregational Hall, [8] The Memorial Hall was regularly used for a range of activities [9] [10] [11] An older structure of the Congregational church was demolished in 1889 to make way for a newer building.
St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, presently Julian Porteous.. The cathedral's origins can be traced back to 1822 [1] when the first permanent Tasmanian priest Philip Conolly (1786–1839) constructed a temporary wooden chapel near the present cathedral site and dedicated to God, under the invocation of St. Virgilius, an ...