Designed by Irish-born colonial architect John Lee Archer, this Brisbane Street complex was built in the early 1830s as a convict chapel, with 36 unlit, unventilated punishment cells dug beneath the floor. The nave became a Supreme Criminal Court in 1859. The execution yard still stands. Cold stone, steep stairs, and the particular silence of places built to break people.
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