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You must log in to shortlist items.349-371 LYGON STREET and 221-239 PALMERSTON STREET and 2-34 KEPPEL STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
In 1866 St Jude's Church was a temporary wooden structure erected for worship. From 1866-67 the chancel, four bays of the nave, and vestry of the current church were erected to the designs…
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You must log in to shortlist items.169-199 RATHDOWNE STREET and 2-40 PELHAM STREET and 154-184 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
WHEA AREA OF GREATER SENSITIVITY The Church of the Sacred Heart Complex comprises the former St Georges Church and School, the former Church of the Sacred Heart (now Our Lady of Lebanon),…
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You must log in to shortlist items.97-105 RATHDOWNE STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City
WHEA AREA OF GREATER SIGNIFICANCE The former residence was erected in 1868-69 by Downie and Sturgess as the manse for St Andrews Presbyterian Church which was established on the site in…
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You must log in to shortlist items.2-6 MORRISON PLACE and 420-422 ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
The New Church Temple was built in 1872-73 in a rudimentary decorated Gothic style. The designer was the noted Victorian architect Lloyd Tayler. The builder was Freeman & Co. It was the…
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You must log in to shortlist items.486-492 ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
The first Baptist service in the colony was held in 1838 in a tent on the site where the Regent Theatre now stands. The land for the first chapel on this site was bought from the Crown in…
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You must log in to shortlist items.494-500 ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
The East Melbourne Synagogue (Mickva Yisrael) was consecrated in September 1877. The first Synagogue in Melbourne was established in 1847 in Bourke Street, but its Rabbi, Moses Rintel, with…
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ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL PRECINCT
You must log in to shortlist items.2-20 GISBORNE STREET and 2-60 CATHEDRAL PLACE and 371-449 ALBERT STREET and 7-9 LANSDOWNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The site on which St Patricks Cathedral now stands was part of a five acre government grant to the Catholic Church given over the years 1848-53. The western section of the site was set aside…
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You must log in to shortlist items.1-19 CLARENDON STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
St Hilda's was built in 1907 by R S Phillips for James Griffiths. The architects were Ward and Carleton. Griffiths had migrated to Australia in 1873 and founded the successful tea business…
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You must log in to shortlist items.453-479 ALBERT STREET and 13-19 GISBORNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The first Anglican services in East Melbourne were held in 1842 by theRevd John Yelverton Wilson in a workshop at the eastern end of LittleBourke Street. Charles Laing was appointed…
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You must log in to shortlist items.576-594 VICTORIA PARADE and 1251-1289 HODDLE STREET and 2-30 ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
' St John's Church, the second church within the St John's complex, was built in 1900 to the design of architects McCrae and O'Toole. It is an idiosyncratic interpretation of the Romanesque…
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You must log in to shortlist items.22-36 PARLIAMENT PLACE and 65-75 CATHEDRAL PLACE EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The German Lutheran congregation has occupied the site continuously since 1853 when it was granted three quarters of an acre of land by Governor La Trobe. The first church, built in 1854 by…
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FORMER SALVATION ARMY TRAINING GARRISON
You must log in to shortlist items.68-88 VICTORIA PARADE EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The former Salvation Army Training Garrison was built in 1900 by James Smith for the Salvation Army, under the supervision of General and Mrs Booth, according to the designs by Brigadier…
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY ANNUNCIATION EVANGELISMOS CHURCH
You must log in to shortlist items.186-196 VICTORIA PARADE EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The Church of the Holy Annunciation was built by N Longstaff in 1901 to a design by noted architects Inskip & Butler. The design is drawn from French and German Medieval sources and…
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You must log in to shortlist items.65-71 BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The Salvation Army Temple was designed by the architects Billing & Son in association with architects Oakden, Addison & Kemp. The building was constructed of load bearing brick with…
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You must log in to shortlist items.122 -136 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
A small chapel stood on this site from 1841 following the arrival of the Rev William Wakefield in 1838. Tasmanian merchant and pastoralist Henry Hopkins had asked the Colonial Missionary…
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You must log in to shortlist items.140-154 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The Rev. James Forbes who arrived from Scotland to minister in the colony held his first service on 3 February, 1838. Rev. Forbes' first church was a temporary wooden building at the west…
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You must log in to shortlist items.170-174 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The first Baptist service in the colony was held in 1838 in a tent on the site where the Regent Theatre now stands. The Baptist Church obtained a grant for their present site in 1845 and…
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FORMER MICKVEH YISRAEL SYNAGOGUE AND SCHOOL
You must log in to shortlist items.275-285 EXHIBITION STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The Former Mickveh Yisrael Synagogue and Hebrew School was constructed in 1859 to a design by the architects Knight and Kerr. It was used as such until 1877 when a new Synagogue was built in…
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You must log in to shortlist items.717 FLINDERS STREET DOCKLANDS, MELBOURNE CITY
During 1916 the architect Walter Richmond Butler designed a new Anglican Mission to Seamen to replace premises in Siddeley Street, which had been resumed by the Harbour Trust during wharf…
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You must log in to shortlist items.419-437 KING STREET and 2-24 BATMAN STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
St James Old Cathedral was constructed on a Crown grant site of 5 acres of land bounded by Collins, William and Bourke Streets with the foundation stone being laid on 9 November 1839 by…
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You must log in to shortlist items.320 LATROBE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The Welsh Church, Melbourne, was built in 1871 to a Gothic Revival design by the notable architectural firm Crouch and Wilson, who were probably the favoured architects for Methodist churches…
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You must log in to shortlist items.326 LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
On 15 May 1839 Patrick Geoghegan arrived in Melbourne to take up the position of priest of the newly formed parish of Port Phillip. The land on which St Francis Church stands was granted in…
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You must log in to shortlist items.118-148 LONSDALE STREET and 117-147 LITTLE LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
The Wesley Church and Wesley Mission Victoria Complex in Lonsdale Street consists of ten buildings including: The Church (1858); The Manse (1859); and The School House (1859) all designed by…
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You must log in to shortlist items.24-38 LITTLE BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
What is it significant? Gordon House was built in 1883 for George Coppin, theatrical entrepreneur, politician and philanthropist George Selth Coppin. Coppin was one of the fathers of…
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You must log in to shortlist items.377 RUSSELL STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The Old Melbourne Gaol was erected in stages between 1851 and 1864 by the Public Works Department of the Colony of Victoria, the design is attributed to Henry Ginn, Chief Architect of the…
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