Chapel Hall

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Chapel Hall at Callan Park reveals its layered history. Light streams through tall, arched windows, casting patterns across the worn floor. Empty pews suggest past congregations within this former Rozelle Hospital building.

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Print datasheet

Title
Chapel Hall
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-012
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 October 2015
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity
C2PA verified →
Recognised by
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

Where this was photographed

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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About this print

Chapel Hall at Callan Park. Tall arched windows line the walls of the hall, the light entering across the full height of the room and falling across the worn timber floor. Empty pews remain in the hall, arranged in rows facing the front of the room. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches near the upper edges. The hall is otherwise empty.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. The chapel sat among the working halls of the site across the working life of the hospital. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederick Norton Manning. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008, and the site is now public parkland.

From the field notes

A narrow corridor runs between dark timber-panelled walls. Wide hardwood floorboards carry scuff marks and decades of grime. The paint above the dado rail has streaked and stained, pulling away from damp plaster. An arched doorway opens to the right. At the far end, a four-panel door sits closed beneath a frosted transom window. A single bare bulb hangs from the ceiling. A green emergency exit sign glows faintly above. Light enters from the left, casting a pale wedge across the floor.

— Brett Patman

Callan Park

The series

Callan Park

2016–2018 · 66 photographs

Callan Park opened in 1885 as the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, on land at Rozelle in Sydney's Inner West. The Kirkbride Complex was designed by colonial architect James Barnet and superintendent Frederick Norton Manning, intended as a working example of the more progressive psychiatric care principles of the period. The hospital was reorganised through the twentieth century and many of the wards remain. Brett photographed across multiple visits between 2016 and 2018.

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