The Randwick City Hall is a
heritage-listed
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town hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
located in the
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
suburb of ,
New South Wales
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, Australia. Designed by Messrs Blackmann and Parkes in the
Victorian Italianate
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
architectural style, the town hall was completed in 1882 at a cost of
A£
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2,300 to serve as the town hall and municipal chamber for the
Borough of Randwick.
The City Hall is listed on the (now defunct)
Register of the National Estate
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and as an item of
local government
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significance on the
New South Wales Heritage Database
New South Wales Heritage Database, or State Heritage Inventory, is an online database of information about historic sites in New South Wales, Australia with statutory heritage listings.
Contents
It holds the information about sites listed on t ...
.
See also
*
List of town halls in Sydney
This is a list of Town Halls in Sydney, Australia, with local municipality listed after it. Its main town hall is the Sydney City Hall.
* Alexandria
* Annandale
* Balmain
* Botany
* Darlington
* Erskineville
* Glebe
* Granville
* Hornsby
* ...
*
Architecture of Sydney
The architecture of Sydney, Australia’s oldest city, is not characterised by any one architectural style, but by an extensive juxtaposition of old and new architecture over the city's 200-year history, from its modest beginnings with local m ...
References
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{{Town halls in Sydney
Government buildings completed in 1882
Town halls in Sydney
Italianate architecture in Sydney
1882 establishments in Australia