Top Floor Type:Framed Light cuts through broken window

Light cuts through broken window panes across the machinery floor

while rectangular window openings cut hard daylight across the floor

the last permanent resident left the settlement in September 2006

doors open

Debris has collected on the floor below

Top Floor Type:Framed Light cuts through broken windowThe top floor of the novitiate building at the former Lewisham Hospital, Convent and Grounds, photographed in 2019. Sunlight cuts across walls stripped back to bare plaster, paint peeling in long sheets, debris collected on the floor below. The Little Company of Mary operated this complex from 1889 until 1986, nearly a century of continuous Catholic institutional life in the inner west. Part of the Lewisham Hospital series.