Top Floor Type:Framed Phillip Shirley at Eveleigh

Phillip Shirley at Eveleigh

the Powerhouse remains one of the better-preserved structures on the site

doors open

Debris has collected on the floor below

while rectangular window openings cut hard daylight across the floor

Top Floor Type:Framed Phillip Shirley at EveleighThe top floor of the novitiate building at the former Lewisham Hospital, Convent and Grounds, photographed in 2019. Sunlight cuts across walls stripped back to bare plaster, paint peeling in long sheets, debris collected on the floor below. The Little Company of Mary operated this complex from 1889 until 1986, nearly a century of continuous Catholic institutional life in the inner west. Part of the Lewisham Hospital series.