13 August 2024
The really quite flamboyant former Crown Law Offices in Lonsdale Street, with lots of marvellous carved stonework. Designed by SE Bindley within the Public Works Department, and completed 1893, the lower part is sober Renaissance Revival, in a three bayed form, that then takes off in complicated early French or Dutch Renaissance gables. Built as offices for the Law Department, in the 70s it became an annex to the Supreme Court, now the Court of Appeals, with extra court rooms, and only the domed lobby remains of the original interior (and I didn’t have the courage to even go in to look let alone photograph it!).
Storey of Melbourne 