List of Edmund Blacket buildings

This is a list of buildings designed in part or full by Edmund Blacket. 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.

While Edmund Blacket's university buildings have been maintained and continue in use, few of Blacket's commercial buildings have survived, with none of his Sydney banks remaining. Residential buildings are better represented, and include cottages, terrace houses and mansions.

Of Blacket's more than 100 designs for churches, 84 can be identified as having been built to his plans, with a number of others being detailed or substantially designed by his sons Arthur and Cyril. In addition, he supervised the building of several other churches and made major contributions to a dozen more, such as the towers and spires at St John's Anglican Church, Darlinghurst and Christ Church St Laurence, the chancel of St John's Church and the roof of St Jude's Church, Randwick. Of these churches, 80 are known to remain substantially intact. Of the churches and cathedral listed below, all are Anglican (formerly the Church of England in Australia), unless otherwise stated.

Buildings

Work	Suburb/city	Type	Style	Completed	Involvement	Image	Notes
All Saints' Church	Condobolin	Church		1879 (1879)	Architect (attributed)		[1]
All Saints' Church	Tumut	Church	Norman-influenced Gothic Revival	April 1888 (1888-04)	Architect		[2]
All Saints' Church	Woollahra	Church	French Geometric Gothic Revival	1882 (1882)	Architect		[3]: [pp. 6, 56]
Aston Lodge (subsequently named: Loreto Sisters' School, Mount St. Joseph, Little Sisters of the Poor Novitiate, International Grammar School, and now Emanuel School)	Randwick	Initially private home; now school	Victorian Italianate	1864 (1864)	Architect		[4]
Bidura	Glebe	Private home	Victorian Regency	c. 1860s	Architect Principal residence		[5]
Bishopscourt, formerly known as Greenoaks	Darling Point	Private home, formerly a presbytery, and initially a private home	Gothic picturesque	1849 (1849)	Architect		[6][7]
Christ Church	Geelong	Church		c. 1847	Architect		^[citation needed]
Christ Church	Jugiong	Church		1873 (1873)	Architect		[8]
Christ Church St Laurence	Haymarket	Church			Spire only		[9]
Church of Holy Trinity	Berrima	Church	Gothic Revival	1849 (1849)	Architect		[10]
Church of the Holy Innocents	Rossmore	Church	Gothic Revival	1850 (1850)	Architects: Richard Cromwell Carpenter Edumund Blacket		[11]
Clarke's Building, Trinity College, Melbourne	Parkville, Melbourne	Residential college		1887 (1887)	Architect		[12]
Craigholme	Darling Point	Private home		1859 (1859)	Architect		[13]
Fairlight House	Fairlight	Private home	Victorian Georgian	May 1860 (1860-05)	Architect		since demolished[14]
Garrison Church	Millers Point	Church	Gothic Revival	1878 (1878)	Co-architect with Henry Ginn		[15][16]
Goat Island Queen's Magazine	Sydney Harbour	Military garrison		1850 (1850)	Co-architect with Mortimer Lewis and Alexander Dawson		[17]
Graythwaite	North Sydney	Private residence; now part of Sydney Church of England Grammar School	Victorian Italianate	1885 (1885)	Co-architect with Goold and Hilling		[18]
Holy Trinity Church	Kelso	Church rectory	Gothic Revival	1877 (1877)	Architect		[19][20]: 153
Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church	Annandale	Presbyterian Church	Gothic Revival	1889 (1889)	Designed by Blacket's sons, Cyril and Arthur Blacket		[21]
Jenner House (subsequent use as Fleet Club, Stramshall, Jenner Private Hospital, Kurragheen, Lugano)	Potts Point	Private residence	Regency Revival Victorian Italianate	1871 (1871)	Architect with John Horbury Hunt; Thomas Rowe: second floor		[22]
Liverpool Hospital (former)	Liverpool	Hospital		1874 (1874)	Second architect Design of buildings A & F		[23]
Maitland banks: Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac) Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (now NAB)	Maitland	Banks		1860 (1860) 1864 (1864)	Architect		[24]
Northwood House	Northwood	Private residence		1878 (1878)	Architect		[25]
Prince of Wales Hospital	Randwick	Hospital					[26]
St Alban's Church	Muswellbrook	Church	English, Victorian Gothic Revival	1869 (1869)	Builder; supervised by John Horbury Hunt		[27]
St Andrew's Cathedral and Chapter House	Sydney CBD	Cathedral	Perpendicular Gothic	1868 (1868)	Architect		[3][28][29]
St George's Cathedral	Perth	Cathedral	Victorian Academic	1888 (1888)	Co-architect with Thomas Whitney		[30]
St James' Church	Morpeth	Church	Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque	1840 (1840); 1862 (1862); 1875 (1875)	Architects: Edward Charles Close (attrib.) Blacket John Horbury Hunt		[27]
St John's Church	Ashfield	Church		1843 (1843); 1875 (1875)	Second architect Design of transept and chancel		[31]
St John's Church (also known as St John the Evangelist Anglican Church)	Camden	Church	Gothic Revival	1849 (1849)	Architects: John Cunningham Sir George Gilbert Scott Blacket		[32]
St John's Church (also known as St John's Anglican Church Newcastle; Church of St John the Evangelist; and St John's Cooks Hill)	Cooks Hill, Newcastle	Church	Old Colonial Greek Revival	1860 (1860)	Architect		[33]
St John's Church	Darlinghurst	Church	Gothic Revival	1875 (1875)	Transept Spire		[34][35]
St John's Church	Wilberforce	Church	Victorian Gothic	1859 (1859)	Architect		[36]
St John the Evangelist Church	Glebe	Church	Victorian Romanesque	1870 (1870)	Co-architect with John Horbury Hunt Tower designed by Cyril Blacket		[37]
St John the Evangelist Church	Wallerawang	Church	Victorian Gothic	1881 (1881)	Architect		[38][39]
St John the Evangelist Church	Wollombi	Church	Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque	c. 1846	Original architect Design and supervision of extensions		[40]
St John's College	University of Sydney	Residential college of the Catholic Church	Gothic Revival	1862 (1862)	Co-architect with William Wardell		[41][42]
St Jude's Church	Randwick	Church	Victorian Gothic	1865 (1865)	Attributed architects: Blacket, or Simeon Pearce		[43]
St Mark's Anglican	Greendale	Church Rectory	Victorian Gothic Revival	1848			[44][45]
St Mark's Church	Darling Point	Church Rectory	Academic? Gothic Revival	1854 (1854) 1879 (1879)	Architect (spires completed post-mortem)		[46][47]
St Mary's the Virgin Church	Maitland	Church	Victorian Gothic	1867 (1867)	Architect		[48]
St Mary's Church	Waverley	Church	Ecclesiastical Gothic Revival	1864 (1864)	Architect		[49]
St Matthew's Church	Manly	Church	Victorian Gothic	1865 (1865)	Architect		demolished in 1928[14][50]
St Michael's Cathedral	Wollongong	Cathedral	Victorian Gothic	1859 (1859)	Architect		[51]
St Michael's Church	Surry Hills	Church	Gothic Revival	1854 (1854)	Architect		[52][53]
St Michael's Church	Vaucluse	Church					[54]
St Nicholas Anglican Church	Goulburn	Church	Semi Norman	1880	Architect		[55]
St Paul's College	University of Sydney	Residential college	Gothic Revival	1858 (1858) 1859 (1859) 1864 (1864)	Radford and Blacket Wing West Blacket Wing Three bays of cloisters		[56]
St Paul's Church	Burwood	Church	Gothic Revival	1871 (1871)	Architect		[57][58]
St Paul's Church and former Rectory (Rectory repurposed as a private residence)	Carcoar	Church Rectory	Gothic Revival	1849 (1849)	Architect		[59]
St Paul's Church (now the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady)	Redfern	Church now a Greek Orthodox cathedral	Colonial Decorated Gothic	1855 (1855)	Architect		[60]
St Peter's Church	Richmond	Church	Victorian Rustic Gothic	1863 (1863)	Second architect Rectory additions		[61]
St Peter's Church (also known as St Peter's Church, Cooks River)	St Peters	Church	Old Colonial Gothick Picturesque	1839 (1839)	Architects: Thomas Bird Edmund Blacket George Allen Mansfield Professor Leslie Wilkinson		[62]
St Peter's Church	Watsons Bay	Church		1864 (1864)	Architect		[63]
St Philip's Church	Sydney CBD	Church	Victorian Gothic with English Perpendicular detail	1856 (1856)	Architect		[64]
St. Saviour's Cathedral	Goulburn	Cathedral	Victorian Gothic	1884 (1884)	Pro-Cathedral Cathedral (spires completed post-mortem)		[65][66]
St Simon's and St Jude's Church	Bowral	Church		1874 (1874)	Architect		since demolished and replaced[67]
St Stephen's Church	Newtown	Church	Victorian Rustic Gothic	1874 (1874)	Architect		[68]
St Stephen's Church	Willoughby	Church	Gothic Revival	1884 (1884)	Architects: Edmund Blacket Arthur Blacket		[69]
St Thomas' Church	North Sydney	Church	Victorian Gothic	1883 (1883)	Architects: Edmund Blacket Cyril Blacket		[70]
Skellatar House	Maitland	Private home		1883 (1883)	Architect		[71]
Steyne Hotel	Manly	Public hotel		1859 (1859); 1864 (1864)	Architect		since demolished with a newer structure[14][72]
Sydney Grammar School	Sydney CBD	School		1857 (1857)	North and South Blacket rooms		[73]
Tocal Homestead	Tocal	Homestead	Late Georgian/ Regency Revival	1922 (1922)	Architects William Moir Edmund Blacket		[74]
Water Police Court (currently used as the Justice and Police Museum)	Phillip Street, Sydney CBD	Court house	Australian classic revival	1855 (1855)	Architect subsequent developments by: Alexander Dawson James Barnet		[75][76]
Yaralla Estate (also known as Dame Eadith Walker Estate and Dame Eadith Walker Hospital)	Concord	Private home; subsequently converted to a hospital	Victorian Italianate	1864 (1864)	Architect		[77]

St Clements Anglican Church, Yass NSW

See also

• Architecture of Australia

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