Registrar General's Building
Registrar General's Building | |
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Alternative names | Land Titles Office |
Etymology | Registrar-General Department |
General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Government administration |
Architectural style | Federation Gothic |
Location | 1 Prince Albert Road, Sydney central business district, New South Wales |
Country | Australia |
Coordinates | 33°52′12″S 151°12′48″E / 33.8699°S 151.2132°E |
Current tenants | Land and Property Information |
Construction started | 1909 |
Completed | 1913 |
Client | Registrar-General's Department |
Owner | Government of New South Wales |
Technical details | |
Material |
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Floor count | 3 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) |
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Architecture firm | New South Wales Government Architect |
Official name | Land Titles Office; Registrar General's Department Building |
Type | State heritage (built) |
Designated | 2 April 1999 |
Reference no. | 962 |
Type | Administration Office |
Category | Government and Administration |
Builders | Loveridge & Hudson |
The Registrar General's Building, which hosts today's Land Titles Office of the
The building is located near the junction of
History
The major part of the building is designed by Government Architect Walter Liberty Vernon and completed c. 1913. The building contractors and stonework contractors were Loveridge and Hudson.[1][5] Designed by Vernon in 1908, the building was constructed in stages from 1909 to 1913 to house the Registrar-General's Department, replacing the 1860 Registrar General's Office in Elizabeth Street. The building was used as the central recording point of births, deaths and marriages in the state and the storage of title deeds for the vast majority of the twentieth century.[6]
Description
A three-storey Neo-Gothic
Modifications and dates
Originally U-shaped, the north side was closed off by an addition in 1953 and further extended in the 1960s.[1][5]
Heritage listing
As at 6 December 2000, a well scaled civic building sensitively detailed to complement the adjoining older buildings such as St. Mary's Cathedral. Its carefully composed sandstone facade contributes to the streetscape and satisfactorily terminates the northern end of College Street. It provides a sympathetic component in the progression of civic historical buildings along College Street to Queen's Square. The building has long association with the registration of birth, death and marriages, as well as trade marks, bills of sale, business agents etc. The building stores valuable old registers and other land title documents.[1][5]
Registrar-General's building was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[1]
See also
References
Bibliography
- Heritage Group: State Projects (1995). Land & Water Conservation Section 170 Register.
Attribution
This Wikipedia article contains material from Land Titles Office, entry number 962 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 13 October 2018.
Further reading
- "A Brief History of the Records of the Registrar General" (PDF). ISSN 2200-9736. Retrieved 27 October 2017.