Pirie Street

South Australia
Pirie Street looking west, circa 1928
Map
Pirie Street is located in City of Adelaide
West end
West end
East end
East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeStreet
LocationAdelaide city centre
Length1.1 km (0.7 mi)[1]
Opened1837
Major junctions
West endKing William Street
Adelaide
 
East endEast Terrace
Adelaide
Location(s)
LGA(s)City of Adelaide

Pirie Street is a road on the east side of the Adelaide city centre, South Australia.[2] It runs east–west, between East Terrace and King William Street. After crossing King William Street, it continues as Waymouth Street. It forms the southern boundary of Hindmarsh Square which is in the centre of the north-east quadrant of the city centre.

Pirie Street is served by a stop on the Glenelg tram line on King William Street. It is mainly occupied by office buildings, restaurants, and nightspots. It is one of the narrower streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1 chain (66 ft; 20 m) wide, and has a bicycle lane.

It has a number of notable buildings, including several heritage-listed ones, and was once home to the biggest brewery in the colony of South Australia, the Adelaide Brewery. In 2019 it was used as a location for the film Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe, substituting for Cape Town, South Africa.

History and notable buildings

Hill Smith Gallery, cnr Pirie and Wyatt streets
The Epworth Building on the south side of Pirie Street, between King William Street and Gawler Place

Pirie Street was named after Sir John Pirie, Lord Mayor of London and a founding director of the South Australian Company.[3]

The Pirie Street Methodist Church was located on the site that is now the Adelaide Town Hall office building, with the 1862 Methodist Meeting Hall (see below) behind.

The Adelaide City Council headquarters are on Pirie Street.

The Pirie Street Brewery, later known as Adelaide Brewery,[4] occupied a number of buildings down Wyatt Street, as well as the building currently at no. 113, occupied by the Hill Smith Gallery.[5] While this building has not as yet been heritage-listed, the other brewery buildings in Wyatt street are on the South Australian Heritage Register.[6]

Other buildings which are heritage-listed as of local heritage interest as of December 2020 are:[6]

Buildings which are heritage-listed at state level as of December 2020 are:[6]

Film location

In March 2019 a section of Pirie Street was closed for the day and transformed to represent Cape Town in the 1970s, for filming of the thriller film Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe.[12][13]

Junction list

Locationkm[1]miDestinationsNotes
Adelaide city centre00.0King William StreetContinues as Waymouth Street
0.20.12Gawler Place
0.550.34Pulteney StreetAt southern edge of Hindmarsh Square
0.750.47Frome Street
1.10.68Hutt Street (to south), East Terrace (to north and east)Continues as East Terrace for 100 m, then Bartels Road
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

icon Australian Roads portal

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pirie Street, Adelaide.
  1. ^ a b Google (1 June 2022). "Pirie Street" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ^ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD. 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
  3. ^ "History of Adelaide Through Street Names - Streets Named on the 23rd May, 1837". 4 March 2005. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
  4. ^ "The Adelaide Brewery, Pirie Street". Adelaide Observer. Vol. XXVI, no. 1392. South Australia. 6 June 1868. p. 14. Retrieved 14 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Home". Hill Smith Gallery. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Heritage places [Search results, Adelaide LGA]". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  7. ^ Architecture Museum, UniSA > - Architects of South Australia > Epworth Building Accessed 10 June 2014.
  8. ^ Architecture Museum, UniSA > Architects of South Australia > Herbert Montefiore Jackman Accessed 10 June 2014.
  9. ^ 120 notable buildings - Australian Institute of Architects Archived 13 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 8 May 2014.
  10. ^ Richards, Stephanie (27 August 2020). "Heritage facade to be demolished as Pirie St Hyatt gets green light". InDaily. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  11. ^ Marsh, Walter (3 November 2019). "Archie Roach tells his story right and true in memoir Tell Me Why". The Adelaide Review. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  12. ^ Sutton, Malcolm (13 March 2019). "Adelaide transformed into apartheid-era Cape Town for Escape From Pretoria filming". Australian Broadcasting Corporation News. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  13. ^ Polychronis, Gabriel (14 March 2019). "Adelaide's Pirie St transformed into 1978 Cape Town for Daniel Radcliffe's movie Escape from Pretoria". Adelaide Now. The Advertiser. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
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