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Many years before Bridge Street was named, it was the site of Sydney's first Government House and was the abode of first Governor of New South Wales, Captain Arthur Phillip. After establishing the site of the settlement, a substantial "temporary" government house was located on the corner of what is now Bridge St and Phillip St in Sydney. It was built under the direction of James Bloodsworth, a convict builder responsible for the construction of most of the colony's buildings between 1788 and 1800.
This building, the first 'permanent' building in Sydney, was completed by 1789 using English bricks, native stone and a quantity of convict baked sandstock bricks from the Sydney region. After the initial completion the house was of two stories in height, contained six rooms and was the hub of the colony for 56 years. Eight successive governors complained of the living conditions within, each making improvements by adding their own extension. It was here on 4 June 1789, that Governor Phillip and his guests celebrated the birthday of King George III. In 1845 the entire complex was demolished to allow access and extend the street to Macquarie Street. The foundations of the house were exposed by archaeologists in 1983. The site is now occupied by the Museum of Sydney, corner of Phillip and Bridge Street.
In March 1899, workmen installing a telegraph tunnel discovered a copper plate wedged between two stones. It was later found that it was the foundation stone of the first Government House that was laid 15 May 1788. The plate is now displayed at the Museum of Sydney.
Heritage buildings
Bridge Street has a number of significant buildings and sites. The following were listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.
The Department of Lands building is a sandstone building designed by the Colonial Architect, James Barnet, and built 1877-90. It is three storeys high and features a copper dome and a clock tower that is a distinctive feature in the area. The building is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register.
The Department of Education building is a six-storey, sandstone building designed by the government architect, George McRae. It was built ca. 1912 and features an inner structure of steel and reinforced concrete. The building is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register.
Burns Philp Building: this three-storey, commercial building was built from 1898-1901. It was designed by Arthur Anderson of McCredie and Anderson in a Romanesque style. Like the other buildings, it was constructed predominantly of sandstone, with a combination of dressed stone and rough stone. The interior features elaborate cedar-work. The building is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register.
The Chief Secretary's building, also designed by Barnet with later additions by Walter Liberty Vernon, is situated on the south corner of Bridge and Macquarie Streets and constructed in ca. 1878, consisting mainly of dressed sandstone. The building is listed on the NSW State Heritage.
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The former Premier's Office or Old Treasury Building is situated on the north corner of Bridge and Macquarie Streets. This two-storey sandstone building was designed by Mortimer Lewis in a Classical Revival style and built ca. 1849. A large extension was designed by Vernon and built ca. 1896. It has more recently been converted for hotel use as part of the InterContinental Hotel Sydney. In 1999 the building was added to the NSW State Heritage Register.
Macquarie Place Park is an historic site is situated on the north side of Bridge Street and was originally part of the first Government House. Governor Lachlan Macquarie intended it to be a significant public square but it was gradually whittled down over the years. It includes the obelisk designed by Francis Greenway and constructed in 1818; the bronze statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort erected in 1883; the cannon and anchor from HMS Sirius, the anchor having been placed on its pedestal in 1907; the Christie Wright Memorial Fountain, and the men's lavatory built in 1908, which features stucco and a glazed dome. In 2010 the site was added to the NSW State Heritage Register.
Booth House: at 44 Bridge Street, on the corner of Young and Bridge Streets and situated on land which originally formed part of the gardens of First Government House. Built in 1938, this nine-storey building is an excellent and rare expression of the Functionalist style meeting a need for continuous natural light, through bands of windows, to accommodate wool-broking activities on completion. A stylised ram's head is etched into the red granite lintel above the entrance, pale green terracotta tiles remain under copper cladding the uprights between the windows. It is now an unusual mix of commercial and residential units.
Liner House, also known as Moran House, located at 13-15 Bridge Street, is a heritage-listed office building completed in 1960 for shipping agents, Wilh. Wilhelmsen. The building has since been repurposed and in 1999 was added to the NSW State Heritage Register.
St. Procopius Church also known as the Red Lake Church at sunset in rural Brule County. Kendra Perry-Koski, Winner.
Bury St. Edmunds is a market town in the County of Suffolk, England. The town first grew around the the site of a monastery built by Sigebert, King of the Angles, around 633. In 903 the body of King Edmund (Saint Edmund the Martyr), who was slain by the Danes in 869 and at the time buried elsewhere, was moved to the monastery and the town not only became a site of pilgrimage but it also expanded. Due to continuing conflicts with the ruling Vikings the body was again moved, this time to London. In 1020, the old monastery was destroyed and King Canute was responsible for a Benedictine abbey to be built in its place, the ruins of which can still be seen in Abbey Gardens. The original name of the town, Beodericsworth, was changed to St. Edmund's Bury around 925 before being given its present name of Bury St. Edmunds. St. James's Church (now St. Edmundsbury Cathedral), the nearby St Mary’s Church, the Abbey Gate and the Norman Tower are all that remain of the mighty complex of abbey buildings that once stood alongside Angel Hill. The town has a population of over 35,000 and it is now the main cultural and retail centre for west Suffolk. Its main industries are a large brewery and a sugar beet processing factory.
St Mary's Church, seen here, is the civic church of Bury St. Edmunds and claims to be the third largest parish church in England. It is also said to have the second longest aisle and the largest west window. It stands on part of the original Benedictine abbey site at the corner of Angel Hill and Honey Hill.
Legend has it that the abbey was founded in the 8th century, when Aubert, the bishop of Avranches, was visited by the Archangel Michael in a dream; to this day the abbey is still crowned by a statue of Michael slaying a dragon, symbolising the triumph of good over evil.
According to Celtic mythology, Mont St - Michel was one of the sea tombs to which the souls of dead were sent. Following his vision of St Michael, Bishop Aubert of Avranches built a devotional chapel at the summit of the island in 708.
In 966, Richard I, duke of Normandy, gave Mont St-Michel to the Benedictines, who turned it into the centre of learning and, in the 11th century, into something of an ecclesiastical fortress, with a military garrison at the disposal of the abbot and the king.
(The masonry used to build the abbey was brought to the Mont by boat and pulled up the hillside using ropes.)
In the 15th century, during the Hundred Years` War, the English blockaded and besieged Mont St-Michel three times. The fortified abbey withstood these assaults; it was the only place in western and nothern France not to fall into English hands.
After the Revolution, Mont St-Michel was turned into a prison.
In 1879, the land bridge was fortified into a true causeway.
In 1966 the abbey was symbolically returned to the Benedictines as a part of celebration marking its millenium - religious community moved back to what used to be the abbatial dwellings, perpuating prayer and welcome the original vocation of this place. Friars and sisters from “Les Fraternités Monastiques de Jerusalem” have been ensuring a spiritual presence since the year 2001.
Mont St-Michel and the bay became a Unesco World Heritage site in 1979.
The bay around Mont St - Michel is famed of its extraordinery tides. Depending on the season and gravitational pull of the moon, the differences between low and high tides can reach 15 m, altough the Mont is only completely surrounded by the sea during seasonal equinoxes.
Today is the bay full of silt, French government is working on its removal..the plan is to built a built a bridge instead of the present access road, to let the water floating everywhere..for more information, click here... www.projetmontsaintmichel.fr/en/
47513 waits at the end of a platform at the pre-rebuilt St. Pancras station on Saturday 1 August 1987
The norman gate, built in the mid-twelfth century as an entrance to the church of the abbey of St Edmundsbury (of which hardly anything remains today). Beyond it the late twentieth-century tower of the current cathedral, created from the church of St James from 1914 onwards.
Saint-Tropez, France
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