Skip to main content
  1. The Dictionary of Sydney
  2. Roles
  3. Type
  4. Steps or stairs

Steps or stairs

Type - Steps or stairs
Agar Steps
Butler Stairs
Caraher Stairs
Chapman Steps
Chard Stairs
Customs Officers Stairs
Giant Stairway
Hordern Stairs
McElhone Stairs
Merriman Stairs
Moore Steps
Playfair Stairs
Sutton Stairs

Browse

  • Browse
    • Artefacts
    • Buildings
    • Events
    • Natural Features
    • Organisations
    • People
    • Places
    • Structures
    • Entries
    • Multimedia
    • Subjects
    • Roles
    • Contributors

Footer

  • Home
  • About
  • Copyright
  • Contact

Footer Secondary

  • Contribute
  • Donate

Steps or stairs

Agar Steps

full record »

Stairway with 108 steps linking Kent Street with Observatory Hill. They were named for local identity Thomas Agar. With terrace housing along the southern side, they illustrate the small scale pedestrian networks linking residential areas which were typical of The Rocks. They overlook what was once the Kent Street quarry.

Butler Stairs

full record »
A set of 103 steps which connect Brougham Street, Woolloomooloo with Victoria Street, Potts Point.

Caraher Stairs

full record »

Three flights of steps constructed of Pyrmont sandstone which connected Lower Fort Street in Millers Point to Princes Street North in The Rocks. A large portion of the stairway was demolished for the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Small remnants remain in situ.

Chapman Steps

Curving sandstone steps in Forest Lodge between Parramatta Road and Arundel Street opposite the University of Sydney. Terrace houses above them are known as the Chapman Steps Terraces.

full record »

Chard Stairs

Set of steps located in Darlinghurst that connect Forbes Street with William Street.

full record »

Customs Officers Stairs

Stairs in the Rocks at the southern end of Campbell's Storehouse between Hickson Road and Campbell's Cove. Built by the Sydney Cove Development Authority in 1979 during the Campbell's Storehouse renovation. Named for the Customs Officers who had walked along an informal pathway on the site between the old Naval Office to Campbell's Wharf, and in honour of the area's long term association with the Customs Office and Bond stores.

full record »

Giant Stairway

Stairway of 916 steps leading onto The Three Sisters about 400 metres south east of Echo Point, Katoomba.

full record »

Hordern Stairs

full record »

A set of steps off Brougham Street, Woolloomooloo named after local resident and alderman, Edward Hordern.

McElhone Stairs

full record »

Stairway of 113 steps, known colloquially as the 'Stairs of Doom' or 'Stairs of Death', which connects the socially and financially diverse suburbs of Potts Point and Woolloomooloo. They were originally called Challis Stairs.

Merriman Stairs

full record »

A set of steps which linked Argyle Street with what was Princes Street in The Rocks, named after James Merriman, a City of Sydney alderman and mayor. The stairway was demolished for the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.  

Moore Steps

Stairs constructed at East Circular Quay to service the adjacent wool stores. The bas reliefs of two faces in the pedestals at the foot of the stairs were carved at some time between 1973 and 1978 by sculptor Saul Munro. His son Thorin has said that his father told him he had carved the faces at night, and when approached by police or security, he would (untruthfully) tell them he had received a commission to do them but had a day job as well. 

full record »

Playfair Stairs

full record »

Set of steps built to link the higher Gloucester Street with Cambridge Street, The Rocks at the lower level on the south-east of Argyle Cut. 

Sutton Stairs

full record »

A set of stairs leading from Observatory Hill to the Argyle Cut at Lower Fort Street.