1849 – Former Treasury Building, Macquarie St., Sydney, Australia
Architect: Mortimer Lewis & Walter L. Vernon
Now subsumed into a large modern hotel complex l, this former government office was built in two stages,
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,
1856 – Water Police Court, Sydney, Australia
Architect: Edmund Thomas Blacket
Policing Sydney’s harbour was the task of its Water Police. This court house and adjacent police office was built from Bennelong Point sandstone to the design of Colonial Architect Edmund Blacket.
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.
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.
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 –
1873 – Church of St. John the Baptist, Yengarie, Queensland
Architect: Frederick Rogers
Published in The Building News, November 14 1873: “The view of this church, taken from the northeast,
1874 – Design for Museum & Library, Sydney, Australia
Architect: James Barnet
James Barnet’s design for a combined Art Gallery, Museum and Library in 1874, never constructed. Intended for the corner of College and William streets was far grander than the museum as built,
1879 – Presentation Convent, Melbourne, Australia
Architect: S.F. Hynes
Designed by Cork architect Samuel F. Hynes, for the Archbishop of Melbourne. “The buildings are disposed around a court so as to be well ventilated and lighted.
1880 – Chief Secretary’s Building, Macquarie St., Sydney, Australia
Architect: James Barnet
Originally the Colonial Secretary’s Building, this sandstone building was the seat of colonial administration, has been used continuously by the Government of New South Wales,
