Lismore. The chapel built for the Catholic nuns of the city. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Lismore. The chapel built for the Catholic nuns of the city. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Lismore on Wilsons River. Population 28,500. A pastoral leasehold was taken out by William Wilson in 1845 with the name of Lismore taken from a small island in a Scottish loch. The station occupied 36 square miles (23,000 acres). In 1845 Wilson built a homestead for his wife and family near the Wilson River which meanders through Lismore before joining the Richmond River at Coraki. Across the river from Lismore station was Tunstall station taken out by Augustus Leycester and Robert Shaw and downstream was Gundurimba a tiny settlement created by red cedar cutters. The red cedar cutters came from 1842 and soon a camp was established here. They had government licenses to fell red cedars and float them down stream to the saw mill at Ballina. Lismore station was stocked with cattle which was boiled down into vats of tallow. Both the tallow and hides were shipped down river to the coast and on to Sydney. A government surveyor visited Wilson at Lismore station in 1855 and he surveyed a town. With Wilson’s help they named the main streets and land sales began after the town was gazetted in May 1856. Soon the small village had a hotel, a sawmill and a few houses. Next came general stores, a blacksmith, a Post Office and a school. The Robertson Act of 1861 allowed selectors to select land before survey from the leaseholds of the pastoralists and land selection and clearing began in the late 1860s and the town progressed. Maize was grown on the small properties but in the early 1870s sugar was introduced as the river provided cheap transport and the climate was suitable. Soon Lismore area had several sugar mills with the main one at Broadwater built in 1881 for the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company. There is still a sugar mill there and the Richmond River district of NSW still has 16,000 hectares (30,000 acres) under sugar cane. The Ballina sugar mill produces about two million tons of crushed cane each year. By 1879 the town of Lismore had a population of 500 and was declared a municipality. (The population reached 4,500 by the time of Federation in 1901.) Anglican and Catholic churches were built in the 1870s as well as banks, a Courthouse and a government wharf. The first local newspaper was published in 1876. The first bridge across the Wilson River was erected in 1877 followed by more bridges in 1883 and 1885. The first Council Chambers were built in the mid-1880s and a gas works in 1888. The grand Post Office was constructed in 1897 and a railway line opened from Lismore to Murwillumbah in the 1890s linking the town by rail to Grafton and the line was extended west to Casino in 1903. From 1930 the town had rail access to Brisbane via Casino and Kyogle. The railway was important to the growth of the dairy industry from the late 1890s but this industry expansion was based on the success of Paspalum dilatatum grass which was introduced in the 1890s. Butter factories soon followed and by the 1950s 1,000 dairies supplied the dairy factories. At that time Lismore had a Peters ice cream factory. Dairying is still a major industry with a dairy factory in Lismore that can produce milk, cheese, yogurts, ice cream and milk powders. Apart from dairying and sugar the Lismore district was a major producer of bananas with over one thousand growers in the 1950s. The Richmond River region still has over 500 banana farmers who mainly produce niche market bananas- Lady Fingers, Goldfinger etc. These days the region produces avocados and macadamia nuts (600 growers) at Dunoon and on the Alstonville plateau. The North Coast area produces about 70% of Australia’s blueberry crop. Lismore has a population of 29,000 with over 43,000 in the district. The annual rainfall is 1,100 mms ( 52 inches). Some interesting buildings in Lismore starting in Molesworth Street include: •City Hall. Built in 1965. It was totally refurbished and updated in 2013 and the architect for that, Dominic-Finlay-Jones won three awards for his work. •The Medical Clinic. Originally built 1906 as a residence for a local doctor. Two storey, faux bay windows etc. •Memorial Baths. Built in 1928 as a memorial to the soldiers of WW1. Gardens contain war memorials.•Former Council Municipal Offices. Built in 1928 in the inter war classical style with good decoration and Art Deco detail. The façade is broken into narrow bays by tall windows and a parapet hides the roof line. •The Band Rotunda in the park. Erected in 1914 in federation style. •The fire Station architect designed and built in 1908. Parts have been modernised and it has lost its Arts andCrafts style. In the park beside it is the Queen Victoria fountain erected in 1898.The quaint building next to itwas the Art Gallery from 1954 till recently. Building erected 1908 as a saving bank.•Opposite is the Commonwealth Bank. Built in 1931 with classical façade, Corinthian columns and recessed entrance. Next to it is Molesworth House. A former state government building built in neo Georgian style about 1928. Stucco with three arched entrance doors, Georgian symmetry and box like appearance. •The former Post Office designed by Walter Liberty Vernon in 1897. Closed as a Post Office in 1992. Built in federation style in brick with coloured bricks to define bands. It has a rare metal topped tower and clock. •The Commercial Bank of Sydney built in 1930. Now a Westpac Bank. Built in stone, pilasters on façade etc.•On the next corner is the Australian Joint Stock Bank 1876. Bought by T & G Life Assurance around 1910. A two storey Italianate building with a three storey tower. Fine wrought iron gates and colonnaded entrance.•Continue along Molesworth St and turn right at Zadoc St. On the left is the Courthouse. The Colonial Architect James Barnet designed it in typical Courthouse style in 1877. It was completed in 1883. Three arches and imposing gable/pediment façade. One of the few Victorian era buildings in Lismore.•Opposite is the former Anglican rectory built in 1893 with double bay windows. Next to it is St Andrews Anglican Church. A small woodmen church was built here in 1871. This church was built in stages. The nave was built in 1904 designed by architect Charles Rosenthal. The transept and chancel behind the altar was designed by architect Frederick Board in 1913. Built in neo Gothic style but with Romanesque rounded windows, English bond brick work and metal spire on tower. •Turn left for the current rectory at 9 Keen St which was the original police station. St Carthages’ Catholic Cathedral. It was built between 1892 and 1905 and is the largest church in Lismore. The architects were Wardell and Denning. The roof is steeply pitched, the transepts have gable rooves and the façade and tower are impressive with a giant rose window. Nearby is the presbytery and convent.•Turn right here into Leycester St. Here is Turn right here into Dawson St and take next turn right back into Zadoc St and left again at the Anglican Cathedral back into Keen St. •Next corner left is the Methodist Church now Uniting. The architect was Frederick Board again and it was built in 1908. A Romanesque style church with rounded windows and inset work to extenuate the vertical lines of the two bell towers. Church hall 1915. •On the diagonal corner is the Gollan Hotel. Originally the Imperial Hotel of 1890. Rebuilt in 1934 as the Gollan. Queen Elizabeth stayed overnight here in 1954 on her first Australian royal tour. •Next left is the former Lismore High School built 1902. Colonial Architect Walter Liberty Vernon designed it in Arts and Crafts style with rough cast gables, small round windows, two tone brick work etc. Now the Conservatorium of Music and the library.•At the rear is the Regional Art Gallery admission $5. The collection began in 1948 with gallery opening in 1954. In 2015 a $500,000 grant from the Margret Olley foundation converted the old High school to a gallery. Total project $5.8 million. The collection includes works by Olley, Lloyd Rees, Theo Proctor, etc.• Next corner left is the former Church of Christ more recently a bookshop. Local architect Fredrick Board designed this unusual church in 1923. Note the terracotta tiles and the Spanish Mission style appearance from the side. It has rounded Romanesque windows but stucco rounded cupola on the corner and cream stucco sun ray lines in the red brick - a striking Art Deco feature. •The last non-commercial building here is St Pauls Presbyterian Church. The architect was Frederick Board who designed this in 1907. In the neo Gothic style with buttresses, a single tower, quarto partite window on façade with six small round windows above it. A very decorative church. A fine spire with vents in the tower. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-06-20 11:41:17 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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