Reclaimed front door handles

Here is a photo of the handles we bought for the front door.

No, really.

So, we don’t actually have a door or anything to put them on yet…



Now we just need a front door...

They were found in the basement of the old St John's War Memorial Hospital which was once part of St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane, and is now St John’s Admin building. It is believed that they came from the demolition / construction of the new cathedral in Ann Street. The hospital basement had been closed since 1913, and recently re-opened because there was termite damage to the floor. So whether they were from the original church of 1857 or not, they were lost for the last hundred years.

They are about 46cm long and, whatever they are made from, they weigh a tonne. And at $132 for the pair, it's a little piece of Brisbane history we can take down to Tasmania with us.

This is part of the reason we were thinking of having either a double door or an over-sized front door (purely to support the handles).

Viktoria cleaned the hundred years of grime off them, but left the patina. Just because.

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