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who followed. The vestibule – e St Andrew’s
an elegant salon with intricate Cathedral
plasterwork, lav ish stained
glass and a crystal chandelier – Sydney Square, cnr George &
is the work of Albert Bond. Bathurst Sts. Map 4 E3. Tel 9265
The Bradbridge brothers 1661.  Town Hall. Open contact
the cathedral for opening hours
completed the clock tower and tour times. 7 8 ∑ sydney
in 1884. From 1888–9, other cathedral.com
architects were used for the
Centennial Hall, with its coffered While the foundation stone
zinc ceiling and the imposing for the country’s oldest
19th-century Grand Organ cathedral was laid in 1819,
with over 8,500 pipes. almost 50 years elapsed before
On the façade, you will see the building was consecrated
numerous carved lion heads. in 1868. The Gothic Revival
The Grand Organ in Sydney Town Hall’s Just to the north of the main design is by Edmund Blacket,
Centennial Hall entrance, facing George Street, whose ashes are interred
a lion has been here. Inspired by
w Sydney Town Hall carved with one York Minster
eye shut. This in England,
483 George St. Map 4 E2.
Tel 9265 9333.  Town Hall. oddity appeared the twin towers
Open 8:30am–6pm Mon–Fri. because of the were completed
Closed public hols. 7 8 head stone- in 1874. In
∑ sydneytownhall.com.au mason’s habit of 1949, the main
checking the line entrance was
The steps of this sandstone of the stonework The Great Bible, moved to the
building, central to George by closing one eye. St Andrew’s Cathedral eastern end near
Street’s Victorian architecture, The sly joke was not George Street.
have been a favourite Sydney found until work was finished. Inside are memorials to
meeting place since it opened Some people have conclud ed Sydney pioneers, including
in 1869. Walled burial grounds that Sydney Town Hall became Thomas Mort (see p74),
had originally covered the site. the city’s most elabo rate as well as a collection
It is a fine example of high building by accident, as each of religious memorabilia.
Victorian architecture. The architect strove to outdo similar The southern wall incorpor-
original architect, J H Wilson, buildings in Manchester and ates stones from London’s
died during its construction, Liverpool. Today, it makes a St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster
as did several of the architects magnificent event venue. Abbey and the House of Lords.

Obelisk landscape. Tunnels were exca- supply opened in 1837.
This monument was dubbed vated through an open cut that John Busby, a civil engineer,
“Thornton’s Scent Bottle” after ran through the park, and after conceived and supervised the
the mayor of Sydney who had the rail system was opened in construction of the 4.4-km
it erected in 1857. The mock- 1926 the entire area had to be (2¾-mile) tunnel. It carried
Egyptian edifice is in fact a remodelled and replanted. water from bores on Lachlan
ventilator for a sewer. Swamp, now within Centennial
Busby’s Bore Fountain Park (see p129), to horse-drawn
Emden Gun This is a reminder of Busby’s water carriers on the corner of
Standing at the corner of Bore, the city’s first piped water Elizabeth Street and Park Street.
College and Liverpool Streets,
this monument commemorates
a World War I naval action.
HMAS Sydney destroyed the
German raider Emden off the
Cocos Islands on 9 November
1914, and 180 crew members
were taken prisoner.

City Circle Railway
The park we see today bears
very little resemblance to the
Hyde Park of old. In fact, the
dictates of city railway tunnels
have largely created its present Game in progress on the giant chessboard, near Busby’s Bore Fountain

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