page_title: Great Court, University of Queensland
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Great Court, University of Queensland / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: The layout of the Great Court, including the building numbers, on the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland.
context_page_description: Great Court is a heritage-listed university colonnade at the University of Queensland, St Lucia, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John Hennessy and built from 1937 to 1979. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 March 2002.
context_section_description: The Great Court Complex is set on the high ground in the centre of a site enclosed by Cemetery Reach, a bend in the Brisbane River, on the northern, eastern and southern sides, and St Lucia, a residential suburb, on the west. The Court, approximately semicircular in plan with eight unequal sides, is an open grassed space planted intermittently with trees and shrubs and intersected by an axially placed path. The perimeter of the court consists of a continuous colonnade that links five detached buildings, all clad in Helidon sandstone of varying colours ranging from rich purples through to creams and browns. The largest of these, forming the long northern side of the court, is really a complex of three attached buildings. It consists of the centrally located Forgan Smith Building, flanked by the Michie Building at the western end and Duhig Library to the east. The other buildings which face onto the central court are, moving around the perimeter clockwise from the Duhig Library, the Steele Building, the Richards Building, the Parnell Building and the Goddard Building.
caption: The layout of the Great Court. The buildings that comprise the Great Court are as follows: Forgan Smith Building (1), Duhig Tower (2), Steele Building (3), Richards Building (5), Parnell Building (7), Goddard Building (8) and Michie Building (9).
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