Christ Church & Ferguson & Urie Stained Glass
NE Cnr Moorabool & McKillop Streets, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B1060
Statement of Significance
One of Victoria's oldest churches, built 1843 - 1847, to the design of the eminent Sydney architect E T Blacket, supervised by John Gill, and an unusual example of the Perpendicular Gothic style. Additions were made in 1855 by Snell, Kawerau and Prowse, and by others at later dates.
Church Classified: 08/121977, Confirmed:18/051989.
Public Art Statement of Significance:
This is one of a group of three works of stained glass which represent the most striking works of Victoria's nineteenth century firm of glass workers, Ferguson & Urie, and is significant at State level. A major work documenting the early development of the art of stained glass in Australia. One of a group of highly distinctive windows dating to the 1860s-1870s which are of immeasurable historic importance. Classified: 15/071992.
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGE
Victorian Heritage Register H0622 -
FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTEL
Victorian Heritage Register H0662
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GEELONG TOWN HALL
Victorian Heritage Register H0184
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John Rendall Morris (1820-1872)
25/05/15
This is the The John Rendall Morris memorial window. He was their much respected Church Warden and Trustee who died aged 53 on the 15th September 1872. Ferguson & Urie's design for the window was approved by a meeting of the subscribers in December 1872 and it has twenty six saints and prophets depicted in it. See http://wp.me/p28nLD-2vg at fergusonandurie.wordpress.com
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Notes See all notes
John Rendall Morris (1820-1872)
25/05/15
This is the The John Rendall Morris memorial window. He was their much respected Church Warden and Trustee who died aged 53 on the 15th September 1872. Ferguson & Urie's design for the window was approved by a meeting of the subscribers in December 1872 and it has twenty six saints and prophets depicted in it. See http://wp.me/p28nLD-2vg at fergusonandurie.wordpress.com
