Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01339:reg:372:p60
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01339
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 372 (pt 60/62)
Character Range: 336377–343430

colony's isolation and dependence on shipping and remains one of the principal markers to the entry to Port Jackson as a still functioning navigational aid.                     National Criteria E
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The existing lighthouse, standing proud on the prominent ridgeline of South Head overlooking the harbour, continues to represent Greenway's and Macquarie's original siting and conception of the Macquarie Tower and Lighthouse and continues to communicate Macquarie's early planning schemes for Sydney and his delight in architectural folly and ornament.                                                                                                 National Criteria E
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Despite its urban context, the dramatic headland setting and the neat cluster of lightstation buildings set in a relatively bare windswept landscape remains a highly romanticised and evocative landscape aesthetic associated with lighthouses the world over and the grandeur of the lighthouse and its dramatic landscape setting above the sandstone cliffs has been recorded in numerous early paintings, prints and photographs throughout its history.   National Criteria E
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Criteria (f) Creative/Technical Values
The Macquarie Lightstation is of outstanding significance for its creative and technical values due to its long history, making the place capable of demonstrating the history of the establishment of civic and maritime facilities in the early colony of New South Wales, government building programmes throughout the 19th century and their role in the early development of Sydney, civic architectural design.                National Criteria F
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The place is also of exceptional significance for its ability to demonstrate the historical development of Australian lighthouses and their technology more generally including the 19th century and 20th century Chance Brothers optics, the 20th century mercury float pedestal and the development of the lamp from oil wick to kerosene to electricity to photoelectric.                                                          National Criteria F
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The lighthouse retains its original Barnet-period Chance 12'1½" (3700mm) dia cast iron and copper lantern house with segmental cast iron murette, cast iron framed copper clad dome, cast iron Trinity (diagonal) pattern glazing, copper ball vent and wind vane. The whole of the lantern is a beautiful example of 19th century industrial technology, is one of three examples in Australia and is of exceptional significance.   National Criteria F
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Being the first lighthouse to be operated by electricity, the surviving de Meritens arc lamp regulator & switchboard installed at the lighthouse between 1883 and 1911 (now held at the Powerhouse Museum), is of outstanding significance and likely to be the only one of its kind in Australia.                                                                                                                                    National Criteria F
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Barnet's lighthouse is a close copy of Greenway's original lighthouse and so constitutes a rare architectural replica of an early important colonial building by an important early architect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        National Criteria F
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Albeit modified, the site