Format: ImageDescription: A portrait of William Edward Ivey (1838-1892). Drawing made from photograph in Canterbury Museum Library (http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2308/william-edward-ivey-november-1886).
Format: ImageDate: 1975
Description: The Weather Vane was removed for safety reasons . It measures eight feet in length. The bouquets of curved strips and cloverleaf shapes have been hammered from iron only one-sixteenth inch thick.
Format: ImageDescription: The densely planted areas of trees and shrubs surrounding Ivey Hall. A delight to generations of College children. Just inside the old front gates they had a small "Secret Path" which led to thei...
Format: ImageDescription: The Two Men. Two men must always be associated with the original building at Lincoln College: W. E. Ivey, whose name it now bears, and F. Strouts, who designed the Ivey Hall.
Format: ImageDate: 1976
Description: Solid kauri staircase in the main entrance hall. Raised panels on these posts repeat in wood a decorative feature on the stonework outside, and banisters in alternating shapes form rhythmic patte...
Format: ImageDescription: Three important events marked the year 1896: the College became self-governing as Canterbury Agricultural College, a constituent college of the University of New Zealand (Act of 1896); the degree...
Format: ImageDate: 1966
Description: The porch 1966.
The porch was an afterthought. In January 1879, in response to a letter from Mr Strouts (principal architect of the building), the Board authorised "the erection of a Porch at ...
Format: ImageDescription: The formal section of Ivey Hall's garden contained mostly roses and shrubs, except for an area (approximately 50 feet by 25 feet) planned as a parterre-garden. It had been set out when Ivey Hall ...
Format: ImageDescription: The Canterbury Association's Emblem, a form of which was adapted and used as an architectural feature on Ivey Hall at Lincoln's Canterbury Agricultural College.
Drawings by Ruth Burns.
The or...
Format: ImageDate: 1972
Description: The Monkey Puzzle (Araucaria imbricata). Planted when the College was founded, three monkey puzzles (two males and one female) grew in a copse with deciduous trees in front of Ivey Hall until 195...
Format: ImageDescription: Ivey Hall's drive 1954.
Attractively designed in cast iron and bearing hammered copper plaques, the old gates provided a gracious entry to the beautiful tree-lined drive that led to Ivey Hall;...
Format: ImageDate: 1976
Description: This massive fireplace served a large room that began as the College dining room and subsequently functioned as ballroom, College office, meeting room and Board Room. The red brick and limestone ...
Format: ImageDate: 1966
Description: The small figure of an angel, about 20 inches high and carved in limestone, looks down from the balcony of Ivey Hall's porch. Erosion has all but obliterated the symbols on the shield it holds an...
Format: ImageDate: 1970
Description: A quaint and rather elaborate window is tucked away behind the arches of John Guthrie's loggia. It has its own little gable, and is the only window with carved decorations in the entire building ...
Format: ImageDate: 1940
Description: Etched on glass in the high-table window of the Refectory, the College coat of arms provided an appropriate background to graduation ceremonies during the 17 years they were held in that building...
Format: ImageDescription: The Chimneys - west wing (1881) facing courtyard.
A regular pattern of paired chimneys that served corner fireplaces in student studies characterised the 1881 addition for "the accommodation ...
Format: ImageDescription: The Branch of the Monkey Puzzle (Araucaria imbricata).
Format: ImageDate: 1965
Description: The big tree (sequoia gigantea). Long known to students as "the wellingtonia", this big tree growing west of Ivey Halldwarfs the Wool Room at its base. Its topmost branches, spearing upwards, sta...
Format: ImageDate: 1973
Description: In September 1879 the architect was directed "to procure a bell for the Homestead Building at a cost not exceeding £25". Over the years its sonorous tones punctuated the College day with regular...
Format: ImageDescription: A small recessed gable rises above the porch to mask the base of the bell tower. As befits its place in the central motif, it was designed to be the fanciest gable of them all, with spheres, pyra...
Format: ImageDate: 1956
Description: A small recessed gable rises above the porch to mask the base of the bell tower. As befits its place in the central motif, it was designed to be the fanciest gable of them all, with spheres, pyra...
Format: ImageDescription: The sheep brand (SA), dating from the School of Agriculture days, was used by the College without change until 1965 when the branding of wool with paint became illegal.
Format: ImageDate: 1977
Description: "Road to Lincoln College 1977", drawn by Ruth Burns.
In her publication Ivey Hall: A Pictorial Comment" (1977), Ruth Burns writes: "Today the road to Lincoln presents a different view. It is s...
Format: ImageDate: 1938
Description: Road to Lincoln College 1938.
It was a monotonous grey road, flanked by dusty gorse hedges that had been planted on banks of sod and thereby raised sufficiently to shut out much of the view. N...
