Adelaide. Torrens Park. The Chapel of Scotch College in the grounds of Torrens Park House 1853. The chapel was named Fisher after the third college principal 1962 to 1969. Scotch was founded in 1920. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Adelaide. Torrens Park. The Chapel of Scotch College in the grounds of Torrens Park House 1853. The chapel was named Fisher after the third college principal 1962 to 1969. Scotch was founded in 1920. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Torrens Park House. This magnificent Adelaide mansion was built for Robert Richard Torrens son of Colonel Robert Torrens who was one of the Commissioners of the Colonisation Commission for SA and it was he who purchased a 134 acre section of land at Mitcham although he never visited the colony. Robert Torrens arrived in South Australia in 1841 as Collector of Customs. He later developed the Torrens title system to record land ownership and transfer which was enacted by the Real Property Act of 1858. Apart from the 134 acre section which he got from his father Robert Torrens bought several other adjoining sections adding around 120 more acres to his estate. Robert Torrens built Torrens Park house as his home in 1853 as a fine Gothic two storey mansion with a fine tower. The ground floor contained just three bedrooms and a maid’s room, a ballroom, drawing room, dining room, breakfast room, library and servant’s quarters and a kitchen etc. Torrens offered to sell the house to Walter Watson Hughes in 1865 and Hughes’ agent took possession that year but then Torrens changed his mind and finally settled the sale in January 1866. Hughes bought the entire 245 acres of the estate. But at that time he and his wife were living in England. They return to Torrens Park House in 1870. Walter Hughes then commissioned architect Edward Woods to make substantial alterations to the house. Apart from the house commodious stables, coach house and other offices were erected too. The main additions of the Hughes’ era were a new east wing attached to the eastern side of the house and it contained a new dining room, a breakfast room and a new kitchen. The western wing was also extended with a large billiard room added behind the ballroom and a further eight large rooms for servants. The upper floor was also extended over the single storey parts of the original house. The additional upper eastern wing added three more bedrooms and a bathroom including a new large main bedroom. The upper western wing above the ballroom added three more bedrooms with gable windows facing west and a second bathroom. A painting done by R.E Minchin in 1872 showed the additions. In 1872 the Hughes’s also oversaw extensive new planting mainly of grand trees including hedges of olives and hawthorns, cedars and several varieties of Araucarias. They undoubtedly maintained the extensive orange groves around the lake and weir on Brownhill Creek. At the same time a new western gate house was erected in 1872 to complement the eastern gate house which provided access from Mitcham Villager Green and Mitcham Road which is now Fullarton Road. That eastern gate house in Gothic style was built around 1858. Curiously one of the stone masons who worked on the additions to the house was Edward Sleep one of the original sailors who worked under Hughes on the ship the Hero and who later worked on Hughes’ sheep properties! Walter Watson Hughes sold Torrens Park House to Robert and Joanna Barr Smith in June of 1874. Although Walter and Sophia Hughes returned to England in early 1873 just before they left Torrens Park House Sophia’s sister Olive Richman married the Governor of South Australia Sir James Fergusson in March 1873. His first wife had died in 1871. Sir James Fergusson completed his term as SA Governor in April 1873. One of the Hughes’ last events at Torrens Park House was to host the annual United Oddfellows picnic in 1874. Later that year Torrens Park House as sold to Robert Barr Smith. The estate was finally sold to the Presbyterian Church in 1920 for the establishment of Scotch College which still owns the estate. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-03-22 09:42:14 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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