Stained Glass Window at South Yarra Christ Church Anglican Church
Toorak Road, South Yarra, MELBOURNE CITY
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Statement of Significance
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Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements
Stained Glass Window at South Yarra Christ Church Anglican Church - Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements
Argus, 7 May 1904, p.9; 10 May 1904, p.1 and p.5.
Stained Glass Window at South Yarra Christ Church Anglican Church - Memorial Window Subject
St. Michael
Stained Glass Window at South Yarra Christ Church Anglican Church - Memorial Window Text
Saint Michael
Stained Glass Window at South Yarra Christ Church Anglican Church - Memorial Window Inscription
In loving rememembrance of Lieutenant Edward Lesslie Newbigin Australian Field Artillery died 6th May 1904 Erected by his father Edward Newbigin of Stella 1904
Memorial Window Description & History
Stained Glass Window at South Yarra Christ Church Anglican Church - Memorial Window Description & History
The use of St. Michael as a subject for war commemoration was popular from the Boer War period onwards. In this version, stained glass artist William Montgomery (1850-1927)used a portrait of Edward Newbigin instead of the generic features, as can be seen in the contemporaneous St. Michael, at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Allansford (now removed the Warrnambool). The Newbigin family motto. 'By its fruit [my family] is known' and the family crest were inserted under the image and above the inscription.
Edward Lesslie Harcourt Newbigin was born in 1877, first son of Ward and Elizabeth Newbigin of "Stella" Punt Road, Prahran. No record has been found of Lieutenant Newbigin's service with the Australian Field Artillery, however it was considered sufficiently important by his family to record on the commemorative stained glass. Newbigin's father was honorary treasurer of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission in Victoria, and Edward junior was credited with the design of the Mission's headquarters and church at 32-34 Flinders Street, Melbourne. When he died on 6 May 1904, aged 27, he was in an architectural partnership as Klingender and Newbigin, Bank Place, Melbourne.
Heritage Study and Grading
Vic War Heritage Inventory - Stained Glass Memorial Windows Study
Author: Bronwyn Hughes
Year: 2013
Grading: Local
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1467Victorian Heritage Register H1032
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FORMER RECHABITE HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0575
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FORMER RICHMOND POWER STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1055
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