New South Wales Heritage Database (Local Government Register)
Official name
Main Quad / East Range and Great Hall
Type
Local government (built)
Designated
1999
Reference no.
4726003
Group
Education
Category
University
Builders
Holmes & Coney
John Donovan & Robert Melville
A & S Loveridge
W. Elphinstone
W. H. Hudson & Sons
The Great Hall of the University of Sydney, is one of the principal structures of The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with a public interior used for formal ceremonies, conferences, recitals and dinners. The Hall, located in the Main Quadrangle on the Camperdown campus, is a symbol of the university's stately history and an excellent example of Victorian Academic Gothic revival architecture. Completed in July 1859, the Great Hall soon became a tourist attraction; the writer Anthony Trollope wrote home in 1874 that the Hall was "the finest chamber in the colonies", and that no college of Oxford or Cambridge possessed a hall "of which the proportions are so good".[1]
The Great Hall, Main Quadrangle and the East Range of the University of Sydney were listed on the City of Sydney local government heritage list in 1999; where the collection of buildings are described as ".... probably the most significant group of Gothic Revival Buildings in Australia."[2]
^Kerr, Joan (1983). Our Great Victorian Architect, Edmund Thomas Blacket, (1817–1883). National Trust of Australia. ISBN 0-909723-17-6.
^"Main Quad / East Range and Great Hall". New South Wales Heritage Database. Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
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