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Burt Memorial Hall
Wikipedia:
Burt Memorial Hall is a hall located on the southern side of Cathedral Square on St Georges Terrace, in Perth, Western Australia. Septimus and Louisa Burt gifted it to the Anglican Church in Perth, in memory of their son who had lost their lives in World War I. Initially it was to commemorate their son Theodore, who died in 1917, but a second son, Francis, was killed in 1918 before the construction was complete.
The site was formerly the location of an old bungalow building used as a military officers quarters before becoming a church office.
The foundation stone was laid on 26 October 1917 by Sir John Forrest, and the hall was opened on 12 June 1918 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Edward Albert Stone. The hall was designed by George Herbert Parry and built by C. W. Arnott.
In 1922, in memory of Septimus Burt, a stained glass window was placed in the hall.
The hall was utilised for a number of activities, including proselytising for secession in the 1930s. It was also used as a venue for exhibitions and events in the 1930s, and during the Second World War.
The hall was renovated in the late 1930s, with reopening celebrated in 1939. Further renovations occurred in 2010, with a 2014 completion, including a re-roofing.
References and Links
perthcathedral.org, whence the snaps.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 2 April, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/burtmemorial.html (it was last updated on 18 March, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.