3-028-778 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Receiving-House of the Redfern Cemetery, near Sydney, 1870. 'The branch railway station of the Redfern Cemetery, where the funeral trains come in to deposit their charges, is a handsome Gothic building, designed, as well as the mortuary chapel, by Mr. James Barnett, colonial architect, of New South Wales. It comprises a waiting-room and ladies' retiring-room, with lavatories and other conveniences. The entrance-arch, supported on pillars with carved capitals, will be adorned with sculptured figures of the Angel of Death and the Angel of the Resurrection. modelled by the late Mr. Thomas Duckett, and carved by Mr. H. Apperley, who did the other ornamental carving, assisted by Mr. J. Moxon...The general contractor for the buildings was Mr. Aaron Loveridge... The Redfern Cemetery of the metropolis of New South Wales is a piece of ground, 200 acres in extent, ten miles from the city, near the Haslem's Creek station of the Newtown railway line. Its space is divided amongst the six principal religious denominations, in proportion to their numbers, reserving a portion for the interment of persons not attached to any Church, and another portion of eight acres, near the middle of the ground, on which has been erected the mortuary terminus'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.