Lyall's Jewellery Shop, Heritage jewellery shop in Charters Towers, Australia

Lyall's Jewellery Shop is a small single-storey shop of rendered brick at 90 Mosman Street, with a frontage of only 4.22 metres. Its recessed entrance sits between two semicircular display windows of curved plate glass, above ornate timber ventilation grilles, with panels of small coloured glass panes above and a gas light over the doorway. Original cedar panelled doors survive, and a convex corrugated iron awning on slender cast iron posts runs along the street.

The shop was established in 1897 by David Lyall when the gold rush made Charters Towers Queensland's second-largest city. The construction of this storefront reflects how merchants invested in their businesses during this wealthy period.

The shop's design shows how merchants displayed their wares during Queensland's gold boom era and attracted customers to their doors. Its refined windows reveal the pride local business owners took in their storefronts during prosperous times.

The building is no longer a shop: it was gifted to the National Trust of Queensland in 1975, and its museum collection moved to the Zara Clark Museum in the former Bartlam's Store. Visitors view the exterior from Mosman Street, where the recessed entrance, curved display windows and gas light over the doorway face the pavement.

A few days after the shop opened in December 1897, the magazine of the Mills United mine exploded and blew out windows across town; Lyall's was one of the very few buildings whose glass survived, which locals linked to the curved panes.