Policing Sydney’s harbour was the task of its Water Police. This courthouse and adjacent police office was built from Bennelong Point sandstone to the design of Colonial Architect Edmund Blacket.
The architect Edmund Blacket designed the original Neogothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings, which were completed in 1862.
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.
About the size of a large English parish church in “Decorated Gothic”, St. Saviour’s is cruciform,
