Heritage Church 1852 – Hobart
Converted Heritage Church Hobart built in 1852. As a private home Pendragon Hall is listed nineteenth out of the top fifty homes in Tasmania. It has the option of being a private home or a B&B for an exclusive party of up to six guests , Pendragon Hall also has an assembly licence for thirty people, weddings, concerts and private parties can be held there.
It also features a fully self contained studio apartment downstairs.
Architecture, ambience and acoustics. Short walks to Hobart City attractions.
It was formerly known as St John the Baptist Church. With its stylish accommodation, amazing architecture and extensive history, Pendragon Hall effortlessly combines modern luxury with old world charm.
Pendragon Hall features an open plan spacious living room with a cosy fireplace, kitchen, two bathrooms, three toilets and two garden courtyards. The church features enormous stained glass windows.
The spectacular Pendragon Hall is ideally situated in West Hobart, within easy reach of the areas best attractions. Mt Wellington, Cascade Brewery, Salamanca Markets and Square, Historical Waterfront and City, Wrest… show more Point Casino, Theatres, City Shopping, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery etc.
Slicing like an arrowhead where Forest Road splits left from Goulburn Street in West Hobart, Pendragon Hall is outwardly a church, with mind-blowing leaded windows, a steeple and tall lancet-shaped heavy wooden doors.
Inside, the former church has been adapted for private living, though still retaining charming ecclesiastical detail. Today, standing in the nave of the former St John the Baptist with its soaring ceiling and colonnade of interior arches you have a feeling of space, light and air. It’s not at all overpowering, despite the spaciousness and traces of ecclesiastical grandeur.
At one end of the nave, it is lit by a four-panel stained glass of historic importance, under which is the Reredos, which was gifted by Richard Patterson to the congregation in 1873 its inspiration was a drawing of the Mosaic picture of the Last Supper that formed part of the Reredos in Westminster Abbey. It has been the scene of elegant dinners, of relaxing days while the warm spring sunshine streams in confetti-like colours through the stained glass windows.
Although there’s no doubt that this beautiful and peaceful piece of history has good energy, it could be said that Pendragon Hall has three outstanding attributes: architecture, ambience and acoustics’ the latter having been put to the test by members of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.