Richard Roach Jewell
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Richard Roach Jewell was an architect who designed many of the important public buildings in Perth, Western Australia, during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He was employed to supervise ma
Pensioners' Barracks in 1905 designed by Jewell in 1863
The Cloisters
Old gaol now a museum in Toodyay
Holy Trinity Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church on the corner of Newcastle and Pool Streets, in York, Western Australia. The church was consecrated in 1858 by the first Anglican Bishop of Per
Richard Roach Jewell
…the Perth Gaol in 1854. All of these building utilised limestone carted by barges from quarries at Rocky Bay. In about November 1854, he also designed Holy Trinity Church, York, which is in brick and of Victorian Romanesque design, and is still standing. With the colony lacking in funds Jewell also turned to brick construction…
The church in 1994
Holy Trinity Church some time after the earthquake, with the bell tower still unfinished.