Edmund Blacket
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Edmund Thomas Blacket was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn.
Edmund Thomas Blacket, c. 1870
Sydney University seen from Parramatta road in the 1870s.
St James' Church, Supreme Court House, Sydney, 1836. Seen from the east.
Bright colours such as those on the hammer-beam roof at St Andrew's Cathedral were advocated by Augustus Welby Pugin.
St Andrew's Cathedral is a cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia. The cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Ne
Edmund Blacket
…Edmund Thomas Blacket (25 August 1817 – 9 February 1883) was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn. Arriving in Sydney from England in 1842, at a time when the city was rapidly expanding and new suburbs and towns…
West front
W. M. Cowper, Dean 1858–1902
William Grant Broughton, first Bishop of Sydney
The west front demonstrates Blacket's mastery of Gothic design.