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Plan of top floor of Glebe Coroner's Court 2020

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Plan of top floor of Glebe Coroner's Court 2020

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Glebe Coroner's Court

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Architecture Courts and judicial system Death and Dying Late Twentieth Century architecture Medical Science Public building

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NSW State Coroner's Court and Morgue, Glebe

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Forest Lodge Glebe

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Health Infrastructure

Arm of NSW Health that oversees the planning, design, procurement and construction of health capital works in NSW, bringing together experts in health planning, architecture, engineering, building, town planning, construction, surveying, assets, communications and change management.

Glebe Coroner's Court

The former NSW State Coroner’s Court and Morgue building on Parramatta Road, Glebe, functioned as the centre of coronial justice in the state for 48 years, and tens of thousands of Sydney’s unexplained deaths, accidents, fires, explosions and missing persons were investigated there. The building housing two coroner’s courts and offices on the top floor and the morgue, refrigeration room and laboratory on the bottom floor, and from 1971 the Department of Forensic Medicine since 1971. In December 2018 it was replaced by a new facility in Lidcombe.

Architecture

Late Twentieth Century architecture

Public building

Death and Dying

Courts and judicial system

Medical Science

NSW State Coroner's Court and Morgue, Glebe

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Court complex at 44–46 Parramatta Road, Glebe that functioned as the centre of coronial justice in New South Wales for 48 years. The building housed two coroner’s courts, and offices, on the top floor, and the morgue, cool room and laboratory on the ground floor. The Department of Forensic Medicine was also housed in the building after 1971. In 2018 the Coroner and the Department of Forensic Medicine both moved to new purpose built premises at Lidcombe.

Forest Lodge

Inner city residential suburb between Glebe and Camperdown. It is named for the 1836 house of Ambrose Foss, chemist and druggist.

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Glebe

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Inner-city suburb named for its original status as Anglican church land granted to Richard Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet in 1790. The Glebe Point area became fashionable in the nineteenth century, while the southern part of Glebe became a working class district.