Lion shields - Sydney, NSW, Australia
S 33° 52.215 E 151° 12.797
56H E 334739 N 6250793
High above the entrance of the Registrar General's Building, opposite Hyde Park, are a pair of stone lions, each holding a shield.
Waymark Code: WM123F2
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 02/16/2020
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These Lions are placed about 5 metres apart, very high up above the street, as the grand entrance itself is about 3m above the street up from quite a flight of stairs. So the lions are another 6m higher! But the life-sized lions are dwarfed by the palatial sized multi-storey and broad sandstone faced government departmental building.
Because the mirrored lions are so high up it is hard to get a good photo by framing each one. Each lion is sejant erect, sitting back on their haunches, with the front paw closest to the mate holding onto a thick metal shield, with a banded cross and four distal stars, and a heraldic 'lion léopardé' on its face. They appear to have been carved from a similar, but slightly darker orange sandstone than what has been used for all the sandstone blocks and external architecture of the building. [ (
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"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." (
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Address: 1 Prince Albert Road, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Visited: 1202, Sunday, 19 January, 2020