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Built in 1937 as a combination of residential and commercial premises for a wealthy gold miner and financier Claude de Bernales, Perth's London Court is designed using the architectural features present in Elizabethan times.

London Court attracts local and international visitors with its friendly, inviting atmosphere and unique architectural style making it superbly different to the sky scrapers it is nestled under in the City of Perth.

 

The only walk in the world outside Britain that has captured a setting and atmosphere so similar to that of Tudor England, London Court is a retail walkway running between Hay Street Mall and St Georges Terrace in the heart of Perth.

Always on Time...
At the decorative Hay Street Mall entrance, a blue-faced clock chimes every quarter of an hour. The clock face is a replica of the "great Clock" at Rouen in France. Standing in the arcade looking towards the Hay Street Mall, visitors can observe the name of the Court's plasterer engraved into the plasterwork on the left hand side of the tower.

Above the clock four knights, known as "Tournament of Armoured Knights", circle in the window when the clock chimes. Another clock is located at the St Georges Terrace entrance. Above this clock, in a window, is a miniature St George doing battle with the dragon. The clock at the St Georges Terrace end of London Court is a replican of "Big Ben" and the clock at the Hay Street end of London Court is a replica of the "Great Clock" at Rouen in France.

A single dovecote hangs hidden on the side of one of the buildings half way along the Court and six weather vanes are located on top of the buildings.

 

Copper coloured ships decorate the classically moulded ceilings at both entrances to the Court whilst containers moulded with lions and unicorns line the walkway providing an aesthetically appealing standard for modern refuse bins!

Several stairways take visitors to the second and third floors to admire London Court through some of the arched iron openings. From these landings visitors get a special feeling for the narrow streets, facades, window boxes, ornaments, decoration and village-like atmosphere of life in a past era.

Protected from the hustle and bustle of Perth's busy St Georges Terrace and contrasting with the modern day mall-ways weaving through other parts of the City, London Court is one of the world's architectural treasures.

 

It is a very special place for anyone who has ever visited Perth and wandered their way past the small shop windows, peered from the balconies or been enchanted by the musical drama unfolding upon the hour.