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St Mary's Roman Catholic School 1872

By
Charles Percy Pickering
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1107066 / PXD 524, f. 64]

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

Education

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry and middle classes. Sydney became the centre of education in the colony, with a university, and eventually in 1880, universal education throughout the suburbs of the growing city.

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St Mary's Cathedral

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St Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and the mother diocese of Australia, and remains the largest ecclesiastical building in the English Gothic style in the world.

Chapter Hall St Mary's Cathedral

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Hall commissioned by Archbishop Polding and built to designs drawn up in England by AWN Pugin between 1843 and 1845. Initially used as a school, it was converted to a chapter hall in 1910.