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Surname: Cawarra ship wreck
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 19 July 1866
Place: Newcastle
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Inquest on the bodies of those who drowned in ship wrecks at Newcastle
173820
Surname: Cawarra Wreck
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 2 April 1902
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: An account of the wreck of the Cawarra wreck, the rescue of the one survivor and the burial of the victims in a mass grave in Christ Church Cathedral burial ground
174070
Surname: Cawarra wreck
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 27 July 1887
Place: Christ Church Burial Ground, Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: There is a large space, fenced with iron railings under which repose the unfortunate persons who perished when the ill fated Cawarra went down with all hands on July 12 1866. Some 30 bodies were recovered from the ocean but the name of only one is recorded, there being a stone erected to the memory of Joseph Jenkins, quartermaster
203382
Surname: Centennial Hotel, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: c. 1888
Place: 127 Scott-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Hertiage Assessment 2001
Details: THREE storey rendered brick late Victorian hotel. Associated with Walter Sidney, prominent Publican. Important as a group with adjoining Woods Chambers. Architect James Henderson. Source: Newcastle CBD Heritage Study, 1988 THE CENTENNIAL Hotel was founded on January 26, 1888, being the centenary of the Australian colony after which the hotel was named. The first proprietor was Walter Sidney, whose name appears on the parapet, however he remained there only briefly and it was the second proprietor, John Limeburner (the grandfather of the nominator) who established the early reputation of the hotel. More recently the building will be remembered as Stan Brains pub, being the proprietor from 1938 until its closure in 1964, and indeed the Brain family have been the actual owners of the site from the outset.
203278
Surname: Centennial Park, Cooks Hill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Dawson and Parry Streets, Cooks Hill
Source: Newcastle City Wide Heritage Study 1997 - Volume 4
Details: Part of the 2000 acres given to the A. A. Company by the colonial government. A. A. Company formally handed over the land to Newcastle Council in 1890. One of the few parks created with direct reference to the Centenary. Of continuing local social value as a focus for recreation and one of Newcastle’s older bowling clubs.
203408
Surname: Central Methodist Mission Hall, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: King-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 24 December 1903
Details: The land in King-street this was built on was known as allotment 177, King Street and was part of land sold by the A. A. Company and purchased by William Croasdill in 1853. In 1902 the Central Methodist Mission bought its allotment for £1750 The Newcastle Morning Herald reported in 1903 – The new and commodious Central Mission Hall in King-street, is now being fitted up internally, and elaborate arrangements are being made for the formal opening services, which will take place on the 24th January and following days. The building which is capable of seating over 1200 people is one of the finest structures of its kind in Australia. Including the purchase of land and the furnishing, the Methodist Union in Newcastle has taken upon itself liabilities totalling over 10,000 pounds. But the building is so substantially constructed that it should practically for ever, be available for the many hundreds of people who, in a city like this, are not reached by the churches. The work of construction has been carried out by Messrs. T. and W. Cowan, whose original contract price was just on 7000 pounds. The contractors work has been carried out in a complete and thorough manner and to the entire satisfaction of the architects Messrs Pender and Silk of West Maitland who succeeded to the supervision when the original architects retired (Chater and Chater). The building has an imposing and substantial interior, and the internal appearance is just as neat as it is commodious the artistic work being carried out under the supervision of Mr. S. Kinder. The area of land upon which the hall stands is 130ft deep with a frontage of 113 ft to King-street, and the buildings cover the entire area, with the exception of a width which has been left as a separate entrance to the gymnasium, and to the passage ways leading to the first and second floors. The building is right up to the footpath. Above the large iron gates approached by ironite steps, it is proposed to put fancy ironwork. The front work of the building is tuck pointed, and comprises double pressed Sydney red bricks with dark stringers all the way up, and cement dressings, the whole presenting a handsome appearance. On each side of the two central openings, to be filled with wrought iron gates, are smaller openings fitted with heavy cedar doors. The central openings lead to the piazza and the side entrances to the staircase halls. Two large openings lead from the piazza into the main hall which is 59 ft wife and 71 ft long with a height of 26ft on the side walls and 37ft in the centre, the ceiling being elliptical in form, panelled out, and enriched with fibrous plastering. The acoustics have been well considered, the hall being particularly well adapted for speaking and singing. At the end of the main hall a large platform 18 x 36 ft has been provided at the back of which is the organ floor…….
203383
Surname: Changing Station Hotel, Islington
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1889
Place: Corner Fern and Coal Streets, Islington
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 7 June 1889
Details: John Cook of Merewether applied for a publican’s Conditional License in 1889 – In premises to be erected at the intersection of Coal and Fern streets, Islington to contain fourteen rooms exclusive of those required for the use of the family
203412
Surname: Christ Church Anglican Cathedral Hall, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1878
Place: 52a Church-street, Newcastle
Source: Wikipedia
Details: Horbury Hunt Hall is a heritage-listed church hall at 52a Church Street, The Hill, Newcastle, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Horbury Hunt and built in 1878. It is also known as Christ Church Anglican Cathedral Hall. The property is owned by the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999
82146
Surname: Christ Church Burial Ground
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1836 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: Backhouse
Details: Iron Gang under an overseer and 3 sentries at work making improvements to the Burial Ground
82225
Surname: Christ Church Burial Ground
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1838 17 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: Government Gazette 1838
Details: Reward offered for apprehension of those responsible for desecrating a vault at the Burial Ground
106656
Surname: Christ Church burial ground
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1853
Place: Newcastle
Source: A voyage to Australia and NZ., J.A. Askew
Details: The church yard was composed of dry sandy soil and had the apearance of a true English burial place
203410
Surname: Christ Church Burial Ground, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: W. H. Huntington in Newcastle Morning Herald 15 April 1897
Details: The opening of the Church of England burial ground dates back some years prior to the foundation of old Christ-Church in 1817. In 1822 it was fenced in, and then comprised nearly three acres
203409
Surname: Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Church-street, Newcastle
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: The first church on this land was built in 1817-18 during Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s time in order to provide religious services for the civil and military officials and convicts who populated Newcastle. Christ Church Cathedral was designed by John Horbury Hunt in the Gothic Revival style. Work commenced on building c. 1884. Other architects who contributed to the design were architects Frederick George Castleden and son Archer Castleden who worked on the completion of Nave and Transept Warriors Chapel, in 1926
204016
Surname: Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 23 September 1863
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Correspondence – To the Minister and Churchwardens of Christ Church Cathedral at Newcastle – Gentlemen – I desire to bring under your notice the disgraceful conduct of certain parties as shown during service on last Sunay evening – conduct the more unbecoming, emanating as it did from those who, in the vanity of this life, wish to be known under the appellation of what is termed vulgarly speaking, Swells or Pure Merinos. Could not some plan be devised for the temporal punishment of these persons who visit Church only, it appears to me, to indulge in their shameful exhibitions of dumb show and laughter etc., I remember in olden times, in the mother country, the sexton of the Church administering a sound knock upon the head of any one misbehaving themselves with a rod he carried about for the purpose, Could such a course be adopted here, I have no doubt these individuals would conduct themselves with more propriety, and the shame attending the blow would to their sensitive natures be quite sufficient temporal punishment – Yours etc. - Pewholder
208268
Surname: Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 20 November 1902
Place: Newcastle
Source: Evening News
Details: To-morrow, His Excellency the State Governor; Sir Harry Rawson, will visit Newcastle, and open the temporarily completed Anglican Cathedral, which occupies a magnificent site in Church- street, and commands an excellent panoramic view of the city and its environs. The history of the Cathedral Church at Newcastle is among the most interesting and important antiquities of Australia. As early as the year 1812, there appears to have been erected on the site occupied by the present edifice a temporary building. In this little church, services were conducted till 1818, when it was replaced by a quaint but substantial building that remained till 1885. The stone that was over the main entrance door, which faced the east, has recently been discover- ed. It is much broken, and bears the date 1817. At first the building had an ambitious spire, which the fierce Newcastle gales defeated, and in 1822 it was pronounced unsafe. Gradually it declined from spire to tower and pinnacles, then to a small belfry till in 1882 the structure was very squat and odd-looking, being, in addition, very unsafe. The Pro-Cathedral was built on the opposite side of the street in 1884. The antiquated little Cathedral was soon afterwards demolished. The Pro-Cathedral, which since 1884 has served as the Cathedral Church, will after the opening of the temporarily finished Cathedral be converted to a Parish Hall
77840
Surname: Christ Church Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 6 January 1821
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Spire of church struck by lightning and much damaged
183244
Surname: Christ Church Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 5 December 1818
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette SIR, In my letter to you from Newcastle, dated 5th Aug. last, and inserted in the Gazette on the 15th of the same month, I omitted one particular which I now think ought not to pass unnoticed, as it is an article of information which I conceive may not be unacceptable to some persons of the present age, and may perhaps be interesting even to future generations : it is this - the first stone of the Church at Newcastle was laid by the Commandant, Captain James Wallis, of H. M. 46th Regt. on the 1st January 1817, and on the Christmas Day next following, the said Officer having assembled the people for Public Worship, read to them the Divine Service
211998
Surname: Christ Church Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 16 February 1891
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Christ Church, Newcastle, now about to be demolished, is the oldest church in Australia. It dates from the year 1817 and is one of the public buildings erected during the years of Lachlan Macquarie. The steeple had to be removed in deference to the dread of the congregation that its untimely fall might, one day, precipitate them into the next world in a manner somewhat unceremonious. During the early period to which we more especially allude the steeple remained, however, intact, importing certainly an ecclesiastical aspect to the four square walls, which otherwise might have represented anything. The eastern end of the church is rounded off to form a recess for the Communion table, but this improvement is not shown in the picture in Mr. Dangar s book, and, with the gallery, was probably the offspring of later times. The ground plan is something in the shape of the letter T and over the entrance (there is but one, exclusive of a small door affording entrance to the gallery) appears in the usual oval, similar to students of Gov. Macquarie s public buildings, the inscription - G. E. Erected A. D. 1817. Lachlan Macquarie, Esq., Governor by James Wallis Esq., Captain 46th regt, Commandant. Within this building there is nothing to induce inconoclasm or to inspire the awe of an aesthetic or sensuous admirer of the Ritualistic.....Years have rolled away since then, James Wallis Esq., his subalterns, and soldiers, have all disappeared. Many were not doomed ever to revisit the green fields and pleasant villages of Albion; many left their bones in the graveyard adjoining the church
203279
Surname: Christie Place and Shortland Centenary Fountain
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1897
Place: Newcastle
Source: Monument Australia online
Details: The fountain erected by the Mayor David Miller in 1897 and originally located at Newcastle Beach, commemorates the centenary (1797-1897) of the European discovery of the site of Newcastle by Lieutenant Shortland. A plaque was added to the fountain by the Fellowship of the First Fleeters in 1997. The fountain is now located at Christie Place.
203411
Surname: Church of England Parsonage, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Corner Church and Newcomen Streets, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 13 March 1902
Details: In 1902 when the Deanery was demolished the Newcastle Morning Herald provided a description of the old building….Half hidden by the overhanging trees planted long ago by Dean Selwyn, the peculiarities of this quaint old structure are hardly noticed. It was built of brick, the outer walls being covered with a kind of cement facing peculiar to many old buildings of that period. The foundations and walls are remarkably strong, while the interior is fairly roomy, and when new the house must have been considered palatial beside the humble dwellings which surrounded it. Originally a stone wall surrounded the entire space now devoted t the Asylum for the Insane, which was formerly the soldiers barracks, and a portion of this wall may still be seen near the police barracks at the corner of Watt and Church streets. …It is doubtful if another building like it exists in the State. In his design Captain Wallis appears to have remembered the old fashioned bow window, common enough in England, but rarely built now, and two of these were attempted but not faithfully imitated. Some fifteen years ago a substantial addition was made, consisting of a two stories building which stands at the back considerably enlarging the capacity of the dwelling. Today while the old structure is showing visible traces of decay particularly about the roof of the verandahs, there are ample evidences of faithful workmanship on the part of those engaged in its construction.