:Glebe, New South Wales

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Glebe's name is derived from the fact that the land on which it was developed was a glebe, originally owned by the Anglican Church. 'The Glebe' was a land grant of {{convert|400|acre|ha|0|order=flip}} given by Governor Arthur Phillip to Reverend Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, in 1790.The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson 1990, pg. 109

In the 19th century, Glebe was home to the architect Edmund Blacket, who had migrated from England. Blacket built his family home, Bidura, on Glebe Point Road in 1858,Sydney Architecture, John Haskell (UNSW Press) 1997, pg. 62 designing it along conventional Victorian Regency lines. He also designed St John's Church, on the corner of Glebe Point Road and St Johns Road. The church was built from 1868 to 1870. The suburb of Glebe was home to a first grade football team in the New South Wales Rugby League. The Glebe Dirty Reds were formed in 1908 and played in the first seasons of rugby league in Australia, with home games at Wentworth Park.{{cite web|title=Centenary of Rugby League|url=http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/news--reviews/media-releases/community-games-day-at-arl%27s-first-home-ground.aspx|access-date=27 April 2014|archive-date=14 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514131200/http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/news--reviews/media-releases/community-games-day-at-arl%27s-first-home-ground.aspx|url-status=dead}} The foundation club did not win a premiership and was excluded from the competition in 1930.

In the 1970s, feminist activists took over an abandoned terrace house in Westmoreland Street and set up Australia's first women's shelter, the Elsie Refuge.[http://www.wrrc.org.au/resources/bookrefuges/2005-07-17.6277883923/download The NSW Women’s Refuge Movement’s Little Book of Refuges- First Edition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080721224914/http://wrrc.org.au/resources/bookrefuges/2005-07-17.6277883923/download |date=21 July 2008 }} This was one of many properties left empty in the area due to government plans to build the North-East Expressway. The demolition of parkland and houses in Glebe was averted after the NSW Builders Labourers Federation placed bans on such work.{{Cite web |last=Green Bans Art Walks Project |date=2023-06-23 |title=Green Bans Timeline: 1971-74 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/green-bans-timeline/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}

The original vegetation was the Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest. A veteran Ironbark still grows at the grounds of St John's Anglican Church, at Glebe Point Road.Les Robinson – Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney; {{ISBN|978-0-7318-1211-0}} page 48

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• Glebe Town Hall, a heritage-listed civic building, which was used as the seat of the Glebe Municipal Council from its opening 1880 to 1948. Since merging with the City of Sydney council in that year, the building has been used extensively as a community hall for local concerts, rehearsals, balls, parties, conferences, and society meetings.
• Rozelle Tram Depot, constructed in stages from 1904, is the largest remaining tram depot in Sydney, and is one of five remaining tram depots in the state of New South Wales. Operations ceased on 22 November 1958. The depot at present contains six historic trams, some of which date back to the 1930s, as well as an old coach that has been heavily vandalised. The trams that were in near mint condition prior to 2000 have now been vandalised, stripped and painted with graffiti.{{cite news|author=John Huxley |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/unpimp-my-tram-buffs-want-vandalised-relics-restored-to-former-glory-20090503-argw.html |title=Unpimp my tram: buffs want vandalised relics restored to former glory |publisher=Brisbane Times|date=4 May 2009 |access-date=2014-05-30}} The depot served the inner western suburbs tram routes to Leichhardt, Balmain, Birchgrove, Abbotsford, and Lilyfield. During its peak of operations the depot was a major place of employment, employing up to 650 staff and was one of few workplaces of significant size in the Glebe area during its period.Pages 83–84, Godden Mackay Logan "Former Rozelle Tram Depot – Conservation Management Plan" Sept 2004 The depot ceased operations on 22 November 1958.Page 12, Godden Mackay Logan, "Former Rozelle Tram Depot – Conservation Management Plan" September 2004
• Sze Yup Temple (Chinese: 四邑廟) is located in Edward Street and was originally built in 1898 by Chinese immigrants from Sze Yup, Guangdong, China.{{cite web|last=Kohn|first=Rachael|date=10 February 2008|title=Sze Yup Temple|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ark/sze-yup-temple/3296364|work=The Ark|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=27 April 2014}} It provided a focal point for the early Chinese market gardeners in the area and is still in use today. The present building, which replaced one destroyed by fire, dates from 1955. Arsonists caused another fire in January 2008, damaging the roof and all its contents. Racism and anti-Chinese sentiments just prior to Chinese New Year in February were suspected as motives, but police refused to confirm or deny this.{{cite news|author=Staff writer|date=31 January 2008|title=Arson suspected in Sydney temple blaze|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-01-31/arson-suspected-in-sydney-temple-blaze/1028416|work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=27 April 2014}} While refusing to agree to community suspicions that the fire was racially motivated, in January 2009 the local council allowed reconstruction work as a sign of goodwill.{{Cite web|url=http://glebesociety.org.au/?page_id=355|title=Glebe Society » Sze Yup Temple|date=2009-09-14|access-date=2017-07-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090914122120/http://glebesociety.org.au/?page_id=355|archive-date=14 September 2009|df=dmy-all}} The temple is heritage-listed.{{Cite web|url=http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=5045668|title=Heritage|website=Office of Environment & Heritage|language=en-AU|access-date=2017-07-06}}
• Bellevue, located in Blackwattle Park, was built in 1896 by Ambrose Thornley for prominent Glebe resident William Jarrett. It was later restored and turned into a café. Bellevue is heritage-listed.
• Bidura, situated on Glebe Point Road, was built by architect Edmund Blacket for his family. Built in 1857, the house may have been influenced by the design of the nearby Toxteth Park. It is heritage-listed.
• St Scholastica's (Toxteth Park), Glebe, Sydney George Allen, who established a legal firm and became Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1844, constructed the building as his home and called it Toxteth Park. St Scholastica's College moved to this site from Pitt Street in central Sydney in 1901. The building is heritage-listed.
• Lyndhurst This mansion was built between 1834 and 1837 for Dr James Bowman, who was the principal surgeon of the nearby Sydney Hospital. It was designed by the noted architect John Verge, in the Regency style. The building was resumed in 1972 with the intention of demolishing it as part of a proposed freeway project. However, it was saved as a result of public protest and the placing of a green ban, then handed over to the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in 1983.{{Cite web |last=Green Bans Art Walks Project |date=2023-06-23 |title=Green Bans Timeline: 1971-74 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/green-bans-timeline/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}} In 2004 it was sold and then returned to use as a private home. Lyndhurst is heritage-listed.
• Johnstons Creek rises in Stanmore and flows in a generally northward direction towards Rozelle Bay. The creek passes beneath the stands of the former Harold Park Paceway prior to emptying into Rozelle Bay at Bicentennial Park, Glebe.
• Glebe Jubilee fountain erected in 1909 on the corner of Glebe Point Road and Broadway commemorates the Jubilee of Glebe as a municipality.{{Cite web|last=Hanna|first=Kim|date=2016|title=Glebe Jubilee Fountain {{!}} The Dictionary of Sydney|url=https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/glebe_jubilee_fountain|access-date=2021-05-20|website=dictionaryofsydney.org}}{{Cite web|date=2015-09-08|title=Jubilee Fountain|url=https://www.glebesociety.org.au/plaques/jubilee-fountain/|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The Glebe Society|language=en-US}}
• St John's Glebe,{{Cite web|url=https://glebewalks.com.au/?tb_walk_stop=st-johns-bishopthorpe-1870|title=Glebe Walks | St John's Bishopthorpe (1870)}} also known as St John's Bishopthorpe.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18382654 |title=Colours Laid Up in Glebe Church |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=36,061 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=20 July 1953 |access-date=17 June 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} Opened in 1870 it was designed by John Hunt and Glebe resident Edmund Blacket. The tower was added in 1909 by Blacket's son Cyril.
• St John's Parish Hall Glebe. Built in 1870 and designed by Edward Halloran. There is a horse trough near Glebe Point Road. The hall was used as a hostel during World War II as part of the Church of England National Emergency Fund's efforts to offer hostel accommodation in Sydney for armed services personnel visiting from the surround military barracks.Sydney Morning Herald 3/8/44 p6 The hall had 30 beds.

At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, 11,680 people were living in Glebe,{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL11645 |name=Glebe (NSW)|access-date=5 December 2023|quick=on}} compared to 11,532 people at the 2016 census.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC11641|name=Glebe (NSW)|access-date=5 December 2023|quick=on}}

In 2021, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.3% of the population. Of people attending an educational institution, 13.5% were in primary school, 10.8% in secondary school and 44.5% in a tertiary or technical institution. 57.0% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were England 4.4%, China 4.0%, New Zealand 2.7%, Vietnam 2.2% and United States 1.4%. 68.2% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 4.4%, Vietnamese 2.7%, Spanish 2.1%, Cantonese 1.7% and Greek 1.0%. The most common responses for religion were no religion 51.6% and Catholic 15.6%. Of occupied private dwellings in Glebe, 47.2% were semi-detached, 46.0% were flats or apartments and 5.0% were separate houses. 61.4% were rented, 19.4% were owned outright and 19.4% were owned with a mortgage.

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Glebe Point Road is the main road through the suburb, featuring a shopping strip, known for its specialty shops and cafés and for its variety of ethnic restaurants – Indian, Thai, Italian, Nepalese, Dutch-Indonesian, and other minority ethnic tastes.

Broadway Shopping Centre was built on the landmark site of the former Grace Bros department store. The shopping centre includes a food court and cinema complex, and completed a renovation in July 2007 which added a fourth floor.

Glebe has a popular market which is held on Saturdays in the grounds of Glebe Primary School.{{cite web|title=Welcome to Glebe Markets|url=http://www.glebemarkets.com.au/|access-date=27 April 2014}} Arts, crafts, clothing and edibles are sold. They are known as the alternative markets for the alternative lifestyle goods that are offered. New and second-hand goods are sold there.

Wentworth Park, which features a greyhound racing track, is on the border with Ultimo.

Glebe mini skateboarding ramp is located in Bicentennial Park off Chapman road, in between Glebe and Annandale. The mini was originally {{convert|3.5|ft|m|adj=on}} tall with a hump in the middle. Circa 2005 the original mini was removed and replaced with a traditional {{convert|4|ft|m|adj=on}} ramp, sans hump. Balmain South Sydney Cricket Club play at Jubilee Oval in Glebe.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

Glebe Dirty Reds compete in the Ron Massey Cup.

Schools in the suburb include Glebe Public School (on Glebe Point Road), St James Catholic School (on Woolley Street), Forest Lodge Public School (Bridge Road) and St Scholastica's College (on Avenue Road). The Blackwattle Bay Campus of Sydney Secondary College sits on the site of the old Glebe High School. Tranby Aboriginal College is located in a heritage-listed house, Tranby, in Mansfield Street.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

The Inner West Light Rail has two stations in the suburb, Glebe and Jubilee Park, with the journey from Glebe to Central railway station taking just under twenty minutes. Transit Systems route 431 runs from Martin Place via Elizabeth Street, Broadway and Glebe Point Road, terminating at Glebe Point.[https://transportnsw.info/routes/details/sydney-buses-network/431/74431 Route 431] Transport for NSW Route 433 runs from Railway Square, along Glebe Point Road and continuing to Balmain.[https://transportnsw.info/routes/details/sydney-buses-network/433/74433 Route 433] Transport for NSW Transdev John Holland route 370 runs from Glebe Point to Coogee via Newtown, Alexandria and the University of New South Wales.[https://transportnsw.info/routes/details/sydney-buses-network/370/30370 Route 370] Transport for NSW

19th century housing stock is largely intact, having undergone restoration as a result of gentrification. It is popular with city-workers and students due to its proximity to the Central Business District as well as University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Notre Dame Australia. Glebe is a popular destination for backpacker tourism due to the bars and cafes of Glebe Point Road and the aforementioned proximity to the city.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

At its south-eastern end is the Glebe Estate, an area of Housing Commission properties, mainly consisting of low density affordable Victorian terrace houses (similar to the surrounding private houses), single cottages and small complexes, purchased by the government of Gough Whitlam as a massive urban renewal project to provide public housing for the needy. Some houses in the Glebe estate have been sold off to private real estate, including a high density tower block, and a large complex. This area has the third highest Aboriginal population in Sydney.{{cite web |url= http://203.147.135.212/Development/documents/LocalActionPlans/snapshots/LAPsNORTHWEST.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110704102550/http://203.147.135.212/Development/documents/LocalActionPlans/snapshots/LAPsNORTHWEST.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2011-07-04 |title= Local Action Plan North-West }} {{small|(239 KiB)}}, page 3

File:Bellevue 1899.jpg, Glebe 1899. The large house behind is Venetia.]]

File:Bidura.JPG, pictured in 2009, the former home of Edmund Blacket.]]

Glebe has a number of heritage-listed sites, including the following sites listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register:

• 55–57 Leichhardt Street: Bellevue, Glebe{{cite NSW SHR|5045302|Bellevue|hr=00470|fn=S90/05884 & HC 32415|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 160 Bridge Road: Reussdale{{cite NSW SHR|5045056|Reussdale|hr=00292|fn=EF14/5533; S90/3984; HC 32727|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 281–285 Broadway: University Hall and Cottages{{cite NSW SHR|5045292|University Hall & Cottages|hr=00128|fn=S90/2626; HC32257|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 61 Darghan Street: Lyndhurst, Glebe{{cite NSW SHR|5045300|Lyndhurst|hr=00158|fn=S90/05958/4|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 24 Ferry Road: Rothwell Lodge and Factory{{cite NSW SHR|5045298|Rothwell Lodge & Factory|hr=00591|fn=86/2252|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 266 Glebe Point Road: Monteith, Glebe{{cite NSW SHR|5045284|Monteith|hr=00592|fn=10/3057; S91/00015|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 357 Glebe Point Road: Bidura{{cite NSW SHR|5063601|Bidura House Group|hr=01994|fn=EF16/2939|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 53 Hereford Street: Hereford House{{cite NSW SHR|5045299|Hereford House|hr=00460|fn=S90/05690 & HC 32614|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 13 Mansfield Street: Tranby, Glebe{{cite NSW SHR|5044971|Tranby|hr=00021|fn=S90/06211 & HC 32055|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• Victoria Road: Sze Yup Temple{{cite NSW SHR|5045668|Sze Yup Temple & Joss House|hr=00267|fn=S90/05779 & HC 32539|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• Wentworth Park, Jubilee Park, Johnstons Creek: Glebe and Wentworth Park railway viaducts{{cite NSW SHR|5045444|Glebe and Wentworth Park railway, Viaducts|hr=01034|fn=09/02810; H04/00318/001|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• Metropolitan goods railway: Pyrmont and Glebe Railway Tunnels{{cite NSW SHR|5011985|Pyrmont and Glebe Railway Tunnels|hr=01225|fn=H04/00260|access-date=18 May 2018}}

The following buildings are listed on other heritage registers:{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

• St John's Anglican Church, Glebe Point Road
• Glebe Court House, Talfourd Street
• Glebe Police Station, Talfourd Street
• Former Glebe Town Hall, St John's Road
• Former Glebe Post Office, Glebe Point Road
• Emslee, Mansfield Street
• Margaretta Cottage, Leichhardt Street
• Hartford, Glebe Point Road
• War Memorial, Glebe Point Road

• Sir Edmund Barton (1849–1920), first Prime Minister of Australia (1901-1903), federationist and judge.{{Cite web|url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biographies/search/?query=btownf:%22Glebe%2C+Sydney%2C+New+South+Wales%2C+Australia%22&rpp=200&f=1|title = Australian Dictionary of Biography|date = 1979|access-date = 2015-03-30|website = Browsing birth town: Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia|publisher = Australian Dictionary of Biography|last = Rutledge|first = Martha}}
• Sir John Sydney James Clancy (1895–1968), judge.{{Cite web|url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biographies/search/?query=btownf:%22Glebe%2C+Sydney%2C+New+South+Wales%2C+Australia%22&rpp=200&f=1|title = Australian Dictionary of Biography|date = 1993|access-date = 2015-03-30|website = Browsing birth town: Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia|publisher = Australian Dictionary of Biography|last = Shaw|first = J. W.}}
• Toni Collette, actress, was raised in Glebe until age six.
• Eva Cox, author, sociologist, activist.
• Lucy Eatock (1874 – 1950), political activist, lived in Glebe. Her house was nominated for a blue plaque to celebrate her life here.{{Cite web |title=Lucy Eatock -Blue Plaque Nominations Part 6: 148 St Johns Rd Glebe |url=https://glebesociety.org.au/tag/lucy-eatock/ |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=The Glebe Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922050322/https://glebesociety.org.au/tag/lucy-eatock/ |archive-date=22 September 2023|url-status=live}}
• Tim Ferguson, comedian, musician, author.
• Sir Norman Thomas Gilroy (1896–1942), Catholic cardinal.{{Cite web|url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biographies/search/?query=btownf:%22Glebe%2C+Sydney%2C+New+South+Wales%2C+Australia%22&rpp=200&f=1|title = Australian Dictionary of Biography|date = 1996|access-date = 2015-03-30|website = Browsing birth town: Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia|publisher = Australian Dictionary of Biography|last = Boland|first = T. P.}}
• Ross Gittins, economist, journalist, author.
• Stan Grant, television presenter, journalist.
• Bessie Guthrie (1905–1977), designer, publisher, feminist and campaigner for children's rights.
• Tracey Holmes, journalist, sports broadcaster.
• James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1889–1962), adventurer, photographer, and film maker.{{Cite web|url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biographies/search/?query=btownf:%22Glebe%2C+Sydney%2C+New+South+Wales%2C+Australia%22&rpp=200&f=1|title = Australian Dictionary of Biography|date = 1983|access-date = 2015-03-30|website = Browsing birth town: Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia|publisher = Australian Dictionary of Biography|last = Pike|first = A. F.}}
• Maynard, broadcaster, entertainer, event promoter.
• Reg Mombassa, musician, artist, entrepreneur.
• James Bradfield Moody, author, engineer, executive.
• Ernest Ridding (1927–2001), well known locally as 'The Fridge Man', Ridding's community service was honoured by the Governor of New South Wales.
• Patricia Easterbrook Roberts (1910–1987), floral designer.
• Leigh Sales, television presenter, journalist, author.

Image:Glebe Nags Head.JPG|The Nag's Head, St Johns Road

Image:Glebe St Johns Road.JPG|Record Reign Hall, St Johns Road

File:Bicentennial Park and Glebe Point NSW.JPG|Bicentennial Park on Rozelle Bay

Image:1 St Scholasticas3.jpg|St Scholastica's College, formerly Toxteth Park

Image:1_Emslee_in_Mansfield_Street.jpg|Emslee, Mansfield Street

Image:(1)Sze_Yup_Temple-1.jpg|Sze Yup Chinese Temple

File:1 St Johns church2.jpg|St John's Church, Glebe Point Road, designed by Edmund Blacket

Image:Glebe Town Hall.JPG|Former Glebe Town Hall, St Johns Road

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• [http://www.glebesociety.org.au/AboutGlebe/History/Overview.htm The Glebe Society]
• [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/AboutSydney/CityLocalities/GlebeForestLodgeandBroadway.asp City of Sydney: Glebe, Forest Lodge and Broadway]
• [http://www.tranby.edu.au/ Tranby Aboriginal College]
• [https://www.orienthouse.com.au/ Orient House]
• [http://www.sydney.com/destinations/sydney/inner-sydney/glebe/ SYDNEY.com – Glebe]
• [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/tqqf2h/alma99183959420902061 Colonial Secretary's papers 1822-1877], State Library of Queensland- Reel 6 contains digitised letters and documents written by the Church Corporation Officer to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales regarding Glebe

• {{cite web | url = http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/glebe | title = Glebe | access-date = 27 September 2015 | author = Max Solling | date = 2011 | work=Dictionary of Sydney}} [CC-By-SA]
• {{cite web | url = http://dictionaryofsydney.org/building/elsie | title = Forty years of the Elsie Refuge for Women and Children | access-date = 9 October 2015 | author = Catie Gilchrist | date = 2015 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust}}[CC-By-SA]
• {{cite web | url = http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/glebe_fire_brigade | title = Glebe Fire Brigade | access-date = 16 October 2015 | author = Gary Boyce | date = 2015 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust}}[CC-By-SA]
• {{cite web | url = http://dictionaryofsydney.org/building/royleston | title = Royleston | access-date = 16 October 2015 | author = Naomi Parry | date = 2015 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust}}[CC-By-SA]
• {{cite web | url = http://dictionaryofsydney.org/building/bidura | title = Bidura | access-date = 16 October 2015 | author = Naomi Parry | date = 2015 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust}}[CC-By-SA]

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