Sydney Conservatorium of Music

This guide to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music traces a castellated Gothic fortress built to house just twenty-eight horses, designed by Francis Greenway, a convicted forger turned the colony's chief architect. It follows Governor Lachlan Macquarie, who laid the foundation stone himself without permission from London, and the commissioner sent from London to investigate the colony's spending, who called the finished stables uselessly magnificent. Stand in the courtyard and picture the towers and battlements built for horses rather than people.