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Court

Type - Court
Albion Street Children's Court
Camden Courthouse
Central Court House and Police Station Liverpool Street
Coroner's Court, The Rocks
Darlinghurst courthouse
Downing Centre
Forensic Medicine & Coroners Court Complex, Lidcombe
Glebe Courthouse
Hyde Park Barracks
1887 - 1990
Justice and Police Museum building
Law Courts Building Queens Square
Manly courthouse
NSW State Coroner's Court and Morgue, Glebe
Newtown Courthouse
Parramatta Court House
Police Court, Phillip Street
Supreme Court building Elizabeth Street
Supreme Court building King Street
Supreme Court building St James Road
Water Police Court
Windsor Court House

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Court

Albion Street Children's Court

Former court building constructed by builder CC Coleman of Petersham for 9555 pounds. It was soon overcrowded and outdated with a reputation for violence and was closed when the boys were transferred to Lidcombe in 1983. It has since been used by the Sydney City Mission and community organisations.

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Camden Courthouse

Modest Italianate style court which was modified over decades to house magistrates, witnesses and other legal personnel.

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Central Court House and Police Station Liverpool Street

Court complex at 98 Liverpool Street in the city. Constructed in 1893 to a design by James Barnet with construction overseen by Walter Liberty Vernon, the building lies between Central and Liverpool streets, with access from both sides.

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Coroner's Court, The Rocks

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Coroners court and morgue building at 102-104 George Street in The Rocks. The second permanent coroner’s court and morgue in Sydney, it was located on the site of the earlier North Sydney Morgue, or Dead House. The building opened in 1908 sported all the modern conveniences of the time, including separate waiting rooms for male and female coronial witnesses and a glass-walled room for viewing bodies. Renovations in the late 1940s and 1950s included the first refrigerated room for cadaver storage in Sydney. This building was utilised until the late 1960s. The morgue was demolished between 1971-1972 but the court building remained standing and was repurposed as The Rocks Visitors Centre in 1973.

Darlinghurst courthouse

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Sandstone court complex in Darlinghurst Road opened in 1842 and still in legal use.

Downing Centre

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Originally the elegant Mark Foy's flagship store on the corner of Liverpool, Elizabeth and Castlereagh streets, it was converted for use as courts in 1985. It has a distinctive façade of white bricks with yellow faience work to the sills and cornices. Two corner towers with yellow pinnacles surmount the building. Originally three storeys it was extended several times in the interwar period and is now eight storeys high.

Forensic Medicine & Coroners Court Complex, Lidcombe

The largest coroner’s court and forensic medicine facility in Australia. It opened in 2018, replacing the Glebe Coroners Court. The three storey building includes four courtrooms and larger spaces for coronial and forensic teams to work, as well as additional spaces for community members.

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Glebe Courthouse

Victorian Italianate style courthouse of modest proportions to suit the middle-class, suburban context of Glebe.

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Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.

Justice and Police Museum building

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Building on the corner of Phillip and Albert streets at Circular Quay comprising two 19th century courthouses and a former police station. Originally built in the 1850s to house the Water Police Court and Water Police Station, the complex has variously been used by several branches of the police service before conversion in the 1980s to the Police and Justice Museum, operated by Sydney Living Museums.

Law Courts Building Queens Square

Federal court building on Queens Square completed in 1977.

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Manly courthouse

Courthouse in Manly's commercial district which is the second building to serve local justice.

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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.

Newtown Courthouse

Courthouse in Victorian Italianate style which has been associated with the provision of law and justice in the area since 1885 and is an important element of Newtown's civic precinct.

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Parramatta Court House

Court house built on the site of the old Woolpack Inn. It was extended several times but eventually demolished leaving only the tower standing.

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Police Court, Phillip Street

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Courthouse on Phillip Street, between the older Water Police Court and the Water Police Station, that opened in January 1886. It was intended for use mainly as a summons and small debts court, in addition to the older court building. At the opening, Whittingdale Johnson, the first magistrate to sit in the building remarked the new facilities would allow those magistrates "who had suffered through the foul atmosphere of the old court" to regain their health. The courthouse was built of Pyrmont freestone to plans by the Colonial Architect, with particular attention paid to ventilation and windows. The building is now part of the Justice & Police Museum and managed by Sydney Living Museums.

Supreme Court building Elizabeth Street

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Colonial office building in Victorian Tudor style.

Supreme Court building King Street

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Georgian style courthouse on King Street next door to St James church. The building was originally intended to be the Georgian Public School, Macquarie's first public school, but was modified during construction to accommodate the Supreme Court instead.

Supreme Court building St James Road

Court house in the Federation Free style facing St James Road and part of the Supreme Court complex.

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Water Police Court

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Courthouse on Phillip Street designed by Colonial Architect Edmund Blacket in 1856 for hearing cases brought by the Water Police. A police station was built next door in 1857, and another court building added to the complex in 1886. In 1990 the buildings were adapted for use as the Police and Justice Museum.

Windsor Court House

One of the earliest surviving court house buildings in Australia and a rare early 19th century Georgian style public building. Governor Macquarie requested the original timber court house be replaced and a new one was designed by Francis Greenway. It was built using convict labour, overseen by William Cox. The building consists of a courtroom, ancillary rooms at each corner of the building as well as an extension designed by James Barnet and carried out in the 1870s and 1882. It was restored and renovated and the it remains in use today.

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