Burt Memorial Hall
{{Short description|Building in Perth, Western Australia}}
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| address = 38 St Georges Terrace
| location_city = Perth, W.A.
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| architect = Parry, George Herbert
| developer = Arnott, C. W.
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| website = {{URL|https://www.perthcathedral.org/About-Us/burt-memorial-hall.html|St George’s Cathedral Chapter}}
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Burt Memorial Hall is a hall located on the southern side of Cathedral Square on St Georges Terrace, in Perth, Western Australia.
Septimus and Louisa Burt gifted it to the Anglican Church in Perth, in memory of their sons who had lost their lives in World War I, Theodore in 1917, and Francis in 1918.
{{citation |url=http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/B%20-%20A-D/Burt%20Mem%20Hall%20(I-AD).PDF |title=Register of Heritage Places - Assessment Documentation: Burt Memorial Hall |date=2004-02-20 |publisher=Heritage Council of Western Australia |accessdate=2016-03-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216123223/http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/B%20-%20A-D/Burt%20Mem%20Hall%20%28I-AD%29.PDF |archivedate=16 February 2012 |df=dmy-all}}
The site was formerly the location of an old bungalow building used as a military officers quarters before becoming a church office.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84480121 |title=PICTORIAL FLASHBACK |newspaper=The Daily News |volume=LXVIII |issue=23,533 |location=Western Australia |date=14 September 1950 |accessdate=20 March 2016 |page=9 (FINAL) |via=National Library of Australia}} Pictorial Flashback has a photograph at the top of the article showing the style of the architecture, the verandahs and roof style, taken from St Georges Terrace
The foundation stone was laid on 26 October 1917 by Sir John Forrest, and the hall was opened on 12 June 1918 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Edward Albert Stone.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27480628 |title=HONOURING THE BRAVE. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XXXIV |issue=5,051 |location=Western Australia |date=13 June 1918 |accessdate=8 September 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} The hall was designed by George Herbert Parry and built by C. W. Arnott.{{cite web |url=http://heritageperth.com.au/properties/burt-memorial-hall/ |title=Burt Memorial Hall}}{{full citation needed |date=January 2025}}
In 1922, in memory of Septimus Burt, a stained glass window was placed in the hall.
{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83263779 |title=BURT MEMORIAL WINDOW |newspaper=The Daily News |volume=XLI |issue=14,880 |location=Western Australia |date=27 December 1922 |accessdate=1 October 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The hall was utilised for a number of activities, including proselytising for secession in the 1930s.{{Citation |author1=Lovekin, A |author2=Western Australia |author3=Dominion League of Western Australia |title=Can we secede from the Commonwealth? : a paper read before the Dominion League of Western Australia at Burt Memorial Hall, Perth, on May 23, 1930 |date=1930 |publisher=Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21466916 |accessdate=20 March 2016}} It was also used as a venue for exhibitions and events in the 1930s,W.A.Naturalists Club in 1939 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46424827 |title=NATURALISTS' TROPHIES. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=55 |issue=16,601 |location=Western Australia |date=16 September 1939 |accessdate=8 September 2018 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} and during the Second World War.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47310622 |title=Social at Burt Memorial Hall. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=57 |issue=17,050 |location=Western Australia |date=26 February 1941 |accessdate=8 September 2018 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The hall was renovated in the late 1930s, with reopening celebrated in 1939.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59002904 |title=BURT MEMORIAL HALL RE-OPEN. |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=2147 |location=Western Australia |date=19 March 1939 |accessdate=8 September 2018 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83080743 |title=Burt Memorial Hall Re-opening |newspaper=The Daily News |volume=LVII |issue=19,961 |location=Western Australia |date=18 March 1939 |accessdate=20 March 2016 |page=23 |via=National Library of Australia}} Further renovations occurred in 2010, with a 2014 completion, including a re-roofing.
In 2017 two statues of soldiers and two plaques were set into the southern wall to commemorate the centenary of the building.{{cite news|url=https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/lost-sons-remembered-ng-b88473323z|title=WWI Diggers immortalised in sculpture by Afghan asylum seeker|publisher=The West Australian|date=2017-05-16|access-date=2024-12-16}}{{cite web|url=https://www.perthcathedral.org/burt-memorial-hall/|title=Burt Memorial Hall|publisher=St George's Cathedral Perth|access-date=2024-12-16}}