ALTAR OF LORETO CONVENT CHAPEL

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c. 1905

Overview

B/W copy print of ornate Roman Catholic altar, decorated with flowers and flanked by religious statuary and photographs. Altar is on a tiled dais with dark carpet runner. Behind the altar is a deep decorative cornice and wooden panelling, possibly of the original hotel building.

Historical information

Mother de Salis Fieldhead of Loreto Convent school in central Perth saw a good opportunity for suitable new premises when the Osborne Hotel came on the market in 1900. It was sold to the Loreto nuns for 12,000 pounds for a boarding school. The school was for 'the education of young ladiess' with music and etiquette parts of the curriculum. The hotel bar became a school library (known as St Thomas'), the dining room the convent reception hall. Honeymooner's cottage on river side of Richardson Ave (opposite main buildings) became Loreto Primary School. Osborne Hotel was demolished 1962 to make way for an administrative wing. Loreto Primary school building demolished in 1971, replaced with a new open plan building named Koolyngarra, 'meeting place for happy children'. The school amalgamated with St. Louis Jesuit Boys School in 1976 to become John XX111 College. In 1986 the school moved to a new location in Brockway Rd, Mt. Claremont.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--98-214

Year

c. 1905

Claremont Museum

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