Bonython Hall (source: University of Adelaide)

Bonython Hall at the University of Adelaide on North Terrace, Adelaide is landmark 13 on the Rundle Mall Discovery Trail.

The hall was built in 1936 using a £40,000 donation from Sir John Langdon Bonython, the owner of The Advertiser newspaper. A great believer in education, he wanted the university to have a hall like that of Oxford or Cambridge. However, the money came with two stipulations. The first was where it should be located; the second was that it should have a sloping floor to discourage dancing.

Discovery Trail Landmarks

1. Historic corner - Beehive Corner
2. Adelaide Visitor Information Centre
3. 'A Day Out' - Rundle Mall's bronze pigs
4. 'Progress' by Lyndon Dadswell
5. 'Girl on a Slide' by John Dowie
6. The Magic Cave
7. 'Spheres' by Bert Flugelman - the 'Mall's Balls'
8. The Regent Arcade
9. Adelaide Arcade and Gays Arcade
10. The Rundle Mall Fountain
11. Ruthven Mansions
12. Scots Church
13. Bonython Hall, University of Adelaide
14. The Art Gallery of South Australia
15. The South Australian Museum
16. His Majesty King Edward VII
17. South Australian Migraton Museum
18. South Australian National War Memorial and South Australian Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen Memorial
19. Statue of Venus
20. Walk of Fame (SA's Greats)
21. South African Soldiers Memorial
22. Government House
23. Parliament House
24. Adelaide Club and Queen Adelaide Club
25. The Rundle Lantern