the great hall of the university of sydney, is one of the principal structures of the university of sydney, new south wales, australia, with a public interior used for formal ceremonies, conferences, recitals and dinners. the hall, located in the main quadrangle on the campus, is a symbol of the university's stately history and an excellent example of victorian academic gothic revival architecture. completed in july 1859, the great hall soon became a tourist attraction; the writer anthony trollope wrote home in 1874 that the hall was "the finest chamber in the colonies", and that no college of oxford or cambridge possessed a hall "of which the proportions are so good".