Pall Mall / ˌ p æ l ˈ m æ l / is a major thoroughfare in the centre of Bendigo , Victoria , Australia . It is one of the main streets of the Bendigo central business district and connects the Charing Cross intersection to the south-west with McCrae Street to the north-east at Howard Place, opposite Mundy Street. Pall Mall also forms a 500-metre section of the Midland Highway , one of Bendigo's main thoroughfares.
12-654: The Bendigo Law Courts is a building on Pall Mall in Bendigo , a regional city in the Australian state of Victoria . The courts back onto and are partly surrounded by Rosalind Park . The building was built between 1892 and 1896 by the contractors McCulloch and McAlpine and designed by Public Works architect George W. Watson. The building was constructed in the Victorian Second Empire style been described as reminiscent of an Italianate palazzo and shares
24-668: A great deal with its neighbouring building, the Bendigo Post Office , which was also designed and built by Watson, McColloch and McAlpine 10 years earlier. The Law Courts are built of rendered brick and Harcourt (Victoria) Bluestone . The Bendigo Law Courts are aesthetically significant for its high qualities of design and construction, which are reflected in the building's innovative planning, axial expression, carefully proportioned hierarchical spatial arrangement, internal decoration, fittings and refined detailing. The Bendigo Law Courts remain in use, with daily sittings of
36-596: A great deal with its neighbouring building, the Bendigo Post Office , which was also designed and built by Watson, McColloch and McAlpine 10 years earlier. The Law Courts are built of rendered brick and Harcourt (Victoria) Bluestone . The Bendigo Law Courts are aesthetically significant for its high qualities of design and construction, which are reflected in the building's innovative planning, axial expression, carefully proportioned hierarchical spatial arrangement, internal decoration, fittings and refined detailing. The Bendigo Law Courts remain in use, with daily sittings of
48-594: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pall Mall (Bendigo) Since the 1860s, Pall Mall has been regarded as "one of the most charming thoroughfares in Australia" and the collection of Victorian-era buildings in the Second Empire architectural style, gardens and statuary on either side of the wide tree-lined streetscape is unparalleled in regional Victoria. Pall Mall in Bendigo
60-440: Is a building on Pall Mall in Bendigo , a regional city in the Australian state of Victoria . The courts back onto and are partly surrounded by Rosalind Park . The building was built between 1892 and 1896 by the contractors McCulloch and McAlpine and designed by Public Works architect George W. Watson. The building was constructed in the Victorian Second Empire style been described as reminiscent of an Italianate palazzo and shares
72-719: Is named after Pall Mall in London , England : a street known for its shops and architecturally important buildings. Like its English namesake, Pall Mall in Bendigo is also in the immediate vicinity of the Charing Cross intersection. The street is around 500 metres long - only 140 metres shorter than its London namesake. It runs in a north-easterly direction from the Charing Cross intersection, across Williamson Street and Sidney Myer Place, then across Bull Street and William Vahland Place, to continue as McCrae Street. It
84-766: Is part of the Midland Highway , a major regional highway in Victoria. Pall Mall runs parallel to the south-eastern side of Bendigo Creek and the south-eastern boundaries of Rosalind Park , the Queen's Gardens and the Conservatory Gardens. After rapid European settlement in the Bendigo Valley following the official discovery of gold on Bendigo Creek in October 1851, "Pall Mall", together with
96-686: The Bendigo Law Courts , the Bendigo Soldiers' Memorial Institute Military Museum, the Shamrock Hotel , and the intersection with Bull Street offering a vista to the Bendigo Town Hall . There is also much fine statuary along Pall Mall, including statues of Queen Victoria and mining entrepreneur George Lansell, the father of Sir George Victor Lansell . Bendigo Law Courts The Bendigo Law Courts
108-570: The Magistrates Court and other courts on circuit. The Bendigo Law Courts are included in the Victorian Heritage Register (item number B5126). Construction of a new courthouse on the corner of Mundy and Hargreaves street began in 2020, it is expected to be complete in 2023. [REDACTED] Media related to Bendigo Law Courts at Wikimedia Commons This article about an Australian building or structure
120-421: The Magistrates Court and other courts on circuit. The Bendigo Law Courts are included in the Victorian Heritage Register (item number B5126). Construction of a new courthouse on the corner of Mundy and Hargreaves street began in 2020, it is expected to be complete in 2023. [REDACTED] Media related to Bendigo Law Courts at Wikimedia Commons This article about an Australian building or structure
132-533: The adjacent Rosalind Park , as St James's Park in London is also in the immediate proximity of Charing Cross and Pall Mall . As Pall Mall in Bendigo was further developed in the late 1860s, the street was planned as the location for many of Bendigo's most important civic buildings and landmarks including the former Bendigo Post Office (now the Bendigo Visitor Centre and Post Office Gallery),
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#1732772062766144-476: The neighbouring "Charing Cross" junction, was planned in 1858 by the government and district surveyor Richard William Larritt, who planned the original township of "Sandhurst" in his "Plan of the Valley of Bendigo". Bendigo was officially named "Sandhurst" from 1853 to 1891. In 1861, to "retain an association with Pall Mall and Charing Cross", there was even a proposal to give the name St James's Park to what became
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