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This facility was still in use when I was a very young child in the 50's. I remember seeing railroad cars parked next to it. It dates back to at least 1909 as I have a photo of it with that date on it. It was part of the heavily industrialized Dunbar Creek area around Dunbar, Pa which contained numerous coal mine coke oven operations, Dunbar Furnace, a Plant for making glass and called Pennsylvania Wireglass(glass with wire mesh in it) and 5 railroads(PRR, B&O, WM, NH&D, and West Penn Railway all ran through the little valley.)
The ruins of an historic bluestone farmstead (c1860) on the western urban/rural fringe of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia - 2016). This was one of the first buildings constructed in the 19th century by the early European settlers in this region.
The foundation stone of St Andrew's Kirk, Ballarat was laid in 1862 and construction of the bluestone building with freestone detailing was completed in 1864. Built on the corner of Sturt and Dawson Streets, to designs by Charles D. Cuthbert of Ballarat, the porch and vestry were added in 1873. The tower and spire were completed in 1884 to designs by Charles Douglas Figgis and Henry Richards Caselli, and the transepts in 1889 to designs by Figgis and Molloy. Finally the choir vestry was added in 1926.
The congregation had its origin in 1855 when the Free Presbyterian Church appointed a minister to the Ballarat goldfields. The first regular minister, the Rev William Henderson, had been sent out by the Free Church of Scotland to meet the needs of the colony and he held the position for 26 years. He was the Moderator of the Free Church in 1855 and of the Presbyterian Church in 1872, and was a pioneer minister of the State, who wrote extensively on religion and was actively involved in the community. He also founded Ballarat College, the oldest public school for boys in Ballarat in 1864. He died during the construction of the spire of St Andrew's Kirk, and black bands were inserted in the pinnacles to commemorate this event.
Both the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches secured prime corner sites in Sturt Street and the first building on the Presbyterian site was a small timber church opened in 1858. This was used as a Sunday School after the new church was erected, but was sold and removed in 1875. The present Sunday School building was opened in 1885, situated to the north of the church, and the manse was erected in 1886-88 to the west of the Sunday School in Lyons Street. Both buildings remain on the church property, the latter however was replaced post 1960. Ballarat College was also built on the Presbyterian site at the corner of Sturt and Lyons Streets, occupying this position from 1874 to 1912. Designed by Henry Richards Caselli, the building was used for part of the Sunday School after it was vacated by the school. The school building was demolished in 1949.
The original church building consisted of a broad six bay nave with side aisles. Nave arcading defines the three spaces internally, which all contain timber lined ceilings. This original section, the later tower and transepts are Norman Romanesque in style and they incorporate a number of well executed Romanesque details. Described as the largest and most complete Norman style church in Victoria, it features freestone details include elaborately decorated concentric orders, blind arcading, arcaded corbel tables, stilted arches, wheel windows, scallop and cushion capitals, chevron moulding and interlaced arches. The last feature, particularly common in Romanesque work in England, can be seen externally in the freestone blind arcading above the entrance and in the cast iron fence, and internally on the timber baptismal font and gallery. The main south portal is of particular note with a profusion of finely carved elements and a centrally placed figure of St Andrew, bearing a Salitre cross. Some of this detail, including rosettes, was added to this elaborate doorway in 1883.
The use of textured bluestone blocks and smooth freestone detailing provides the building with both textural and colour contrasts. This is evident throughout the exterior, particularly in the buttresses, where bluestone blocks are embedded in freestone masonry.
The tower, above the wheel window, and spire were added in 1884, and the latter is the only element of the church building that is Gothic in character. It incorporates pinnacles and lucarnes with pointed arch openings, and rests on a Romanesque tower with blind arcading, arcaded corbel table and round headed arch openings. Designed in conjunction with the spire, the tower retains the Norman character of the rest of the building, with the upper level of windows appearing to be altered before construction from the original pointed arch design shown in drawings.
A cast iron fence, by White’s Eagle Foundry in Ballarat, was constructed along the Sturt and Dawson Street boundaries in 1902. It reflects the style of the Norman church by incorporating interlaced arches in its design. A pair of cast iron lamps, executed by the Victoria Foundry in Leith in Scotland, were erected in the grounds at an unknown date.
St Andrew's Kirk is of architectural significance as an example of the work of three Ballarat architects who between them designed many of the city's significant religious and secular buildings from the 1860s to the 1880s. The original architect, Charles D. Cuthbert, also designed the Gothic St Peter's Anglican Church in Sturt Street between1864 and 1867, and Charles Douglas Figgis and Henry Richards Caselli designed the Gothic Congregational Church in 1881. Henry Richards Caselli designed a large number of churches in Victoria, with two Lombardic Romanesque examples in Ballarat, the Ebenezer Presbyterian church, Armstrong Street South between 1862 and 1863 and the Lutheran Church in Doveton Street in 1876.
St Andrew's Kirk is of historical significance due to the retention of much of its original site in Sturt Street from Dawson Street to Lyons Street, and to the presence of the adjacent 1885 Sunday School building. The Sunday School is of historical significance for its contribution to the spiritual life of the congregation and the religious education of its young people.The manse on the site replaced an earlier building. Both St Andrew's Kirk and St Patrick's Cathedral, either side of Sturt Street, retain their spacious grounds, illustrating the importance of these churches when land was reserved in the 1850s.
The extract below is from the fascinating history of the house by Susan Marsden available here: www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/commissi... - I recommend reading the page.
Adelaide was surveyed in 1837 as capital of the new British province of South Australia. Its founders sought both liberal reform and financial gain and so the city was set out with spacious main streets and in one-acre sections offered cheaply as bait to investors who soon profited by subdividing them. Adopting Wakefield's concept of systematic colonisation, proceeds of land sales were used to ship working-class families to the colony. This cottage is the perfect expression of that Wakefield ideal. It was built by young, married settlers who were willing to work steadily to save a large sum (on labourers' wages) and buy land for their own home. It is a typical early Adelaide house, set firmly in the tradition of the detached, single-storey cottage of rural Britain.
Irish emigrants John and Honora Griffin and their son Martin arrived in South Australia in 1852. John, a labourer, had timed his arrival well as most of the colony's able-bodied men had gone seeking gold in Victoria and NSW. By 1856 he had saved enough to buy an allotment in south west Adelaide, a purchase dictated not only by its affordability and the proximity of labouring work but perhaps also by his Roman Catholicism as the bishop's palace and church were within close walking distance. Labourers and the poor concentrated in Adelaide's West End for the following century.
John paid £35 for his tiny 12.5 x 12 metre portion. By 1858 the rate assessment recorded that he had built a three-roomed cottage. Its superior workmanship and use of the handsome and durable Mount Lofty Ranges bluestone suggest that John built the house himself. Adelaide Council's Smith Survey of 1880 delineated the same three-roomed building and its present plan is identical but for the addition of an iron lean-to.
After their parents died, ownership passed to two of their three children, Martin and Mary, in 1890. Mary's husband Gavin Ritche, a builder, may have added the back verandah, later enclosed with corrugated iron, which completes the present rectangular plan. This was the only major change ever made to the cottage. It was divided into a narrow bathroom and a room used as laundry, sleepout and finally, kitchen. City houses were connected to deep drainage in the 1880s but the toilet stayed out in the yard, where it is still. Martin, a saddler and collar maker, lived in the cottage until his death in 1913.
Here is a photo of two Bluestone State Park decals that I purchased. There are a lot of NC 12 South decals in the Tidewater VA area so I decided to break that monotony and get this WV 20 North decal. I have a decal like the one on the right for Cumberland Gap National Park that says "The Mountains Are Calling - And I must Go".
As I understand it, this house was built in the early 1900's using stone reclaimed from the towns former vicarage. Unfortunately it seems that the footings were rather inadequate.
Walking around downtown
Pasadena on a shining Sunday morning
with my beamish boy,
the day of the annual carnival of crazy
costumed characters and bizarre marching
bands and such, th Doo Dah Parade,
we met her sitting on the lawn in the
great park of Pasadena, where marching
bands were practicing, sitting down on the grass,
their tubas and cornets and parade drums
resting on the greenery. She was talking
with much verve to friends, and when
I asked to take her photo, she told
me she was in a club of laughers-
that they get together weekly
just to laugh. "Laughing is good for
you, you know," she said. "It's good for
the soul." And with that she shared
a big laugh with us,
a wonderful, infectious,
genuine laugh of joy,
and as she laughed,
I took this photo.
12 paned windows are typical of buildings from the 1860s.
Plympton village had private schools form the early 1850s. In 1861 the local residents petitioned for a Central Board of Education funded school which they got in 1862. After the passing of the Free Compulsory and Secular Education Act of 1875 Plympton got a new much larger Gothic bluestone style of school. The headmaster of the new state school from 1893 to 1912 was James Greenless a very keen gardener. The school soon had a large garden and vineyard. Students worked in the gardens and raised seeds and pumpkins, and other vegetables. The children used to show their prized chrysanthemums ever year and win prizes for them in agricultural shows.
St Andrews Roman Catholic Church.
105 Greaves Street.
Werribee.
This bluestone church dates from the 1860's and is significant for its architectural style, and its association with the early Scottish settlers in the district. - W.C.C. 21 Aug 2006.
"Land for a Catholic Church was reserved in Werribee in 1861, and again in 1868. With the encouragement of Fr Thomas Neville and Fr James McGillicuddy (both parish priests of Williamstown) a building committee was formed. Cr Kelly applied on its behalf for permission to quarry bluestone at the Council quarry, for the building of the Church and this was granted. The church was completed at a cost of 800 pounds and was blessed and opened by the Rt Rev J.A. Goold, Bishop of Melbourne, in 1871. The predominance of Scots in the parish influenced the naming for the patron saint of Scotland - St Andrew." - Werribee History Kit.
In 1868, permission was granted to quarry stone for the church from a quarry on the road between Wyndham and Little River, by the railway fence. On 3 Sep 1871 Archbishop Goold blessed the new building.
Werribee Banner of 19 Apr 1978, page 8.
FROM CORPUS CHRISTI TO St ANDREWS
The State Government has officially handed over a statue of The Sacred Heart, formerly at Werribee Park, to St Andrew's Parish, Werribee.
The statue was first placed at Werribee Park in 1928 when it became Corpus Christi College, the seminary of the Cathilic Church.
When the State Government bought the property the statue went with the historic property.
The government decided recently to donate the statue to St Andrew's Parish because of the historic link the property possessed with the local Catholics.
The Werribee Banner of 07 Dec 1977, page 14.
Heritage History
1997 - Council Wyndham's Heritage Study adopted : INCLUDED p.248-249
02 Jul 2001 - Council Heritage Overlay : ?
(approved by Planning Minister in Jul 2003)
2004 - Council did further research into sites of local
significance and interest. Review produced 90 sites : ?
2006 - Planning Scheme amendment to include 95 sites : INCLUDED p.33
Proposed Wyndham Planning Scheme (2008) : HO59
W.C.C. Significance Rating (1997) : LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE.
National Trust (Victoria) : File Number B4315.
This image shows the Eastern hills of the Preseli range near Crymych with it's TV transmitter mast striking proudly skywards. The standing stone was placed there in 1989 so that visitors could see the place where the Bluestones of Stonehenge originated from.
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