Foyer Stairs
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 200
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The once-grand foyer stairs of Lewisham Hospital stand silent. Sunlight filters through grimy windows, highlighting peeling paint and the worn treads where countless patients once walked.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Foyer Stairs
- Series
- Lewisham Hospital
- Catalogue
- LHO-012
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 28 January 2019
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 4s s
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia
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A dark timber staircase climbs from the foyer, its turned balusters still intact on both flights. The newel post at the base is worn smooth. Tessellated floor tiles, cracked and filthy, cover the ground in a geometric pattern now barely legible under years of grit. Textured glass panels in heavy timber frames filter a dull, yellowish light across the walls. Plaster has discoloured but holds. The skirting boards and wainscoting remain solid. The air in here smells of old wood and damp calcium.
Brett Patman
The series
Lewisham Hospital
Lewisham Hospital was opened on 9 June 1889 by Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, on the site where the Little Company of Mary -- the Blue Nuns -- had established their Sydney convent in 1887. Originally named the Children's Hospital of the Holy Child, it admitted women and children only until male patients were accepted from 1912. Over the following decades it became one of Sydney's main general hospitals and nurse training schools. It closed in 1988, a century of Catholic healthcare on one block of West Street, Lewisham. The Lost Collective photographs are of the novitiate building, the wing where new entrants to the order were trained, which sits within the broader hospital, convent, and grounds complex. The historic complex is listed as a local heritage item under the Inner West LEP (formerly Marrickville LEP 2011), within the Lewisham North Precinct. The convent chapel, in a revival Byzantine style with a 1927 Möller pipe organ, still stands on the site.
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