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486-492 ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0003The 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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122 -136 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0004A 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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140-154 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0005The 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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170-174 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0006The 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 PRESBYTERIAN UNION MEMORIAL CHURCH COMPLEX
49-61 CURZON STREET AND 2-22 ELM STREET AND 579-589 QUEENSBERRY STREET NORTH MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0007The North Melbourne Presbyterian Church was founded in 1854, the opening services being held on 29 October. On this land an iron school room donated by the denominational schools board was…
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ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL PRECINCT
2-20 GISBORNE STREET AND 2-60 CATHEDRAL PLACE AND 371-449 ALBERT STREET AND 7-9 LANSDOWNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0008The 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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ST PETERS EASTERN HILL PRECINCT
453-479 ALBERT STREET AND 13-19 GISBORNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0009The 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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408-434 QUEENSBERRY ST AND 204-208 CHETWYND STREET AND 147-177 HOWARD NORTH MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0010St Mary's Church of England, now known as St Mary's Anglican Church, situated at 163 Howard Street was erected in stages between 1858 and 1868, with the official church opening occurring in…
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419-437 KING STREET AND 2-24 BATMAN STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0011St 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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118-148 LONSDALE STREET AND 117-147 LITTLE LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0012The 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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326 LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0013On 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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349-371 LYGON STREET AND 221-239 PALMERSTON STREET AND 2-34 KEPPEL STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0014In 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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22-36 PARLIAMENT PLACE AND 65-75 CATHEDRAL PLACE EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0015The 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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169-199 RATHDOWNE STREET AND 2-40 PELHAM STREET AND 154-184 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0016WHEA 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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97-105 RATHDOWNE STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0017WHEA 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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198-202 FLINDERS STREET AND 24-40 SWANSTON STREET AND 197-205 FLINDERS LANE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0018In 1848 at the request of the newly arrived Charles Perry, first Bishop of Melbourne, Superintendent C J La Trobe signed an Order-in-Council granting the present site of St Paul's Cathedral…
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321-369 ST KILDA ROAD AND 345 ST KILDA ROAD AND 93-151 DOMAIN STREET AND 2-124 BROMBY STREET AND 1-99 DOMAIN ROAD MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0019From 1850 the Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, Bishop Perry made requests to the Superintendent of Port Phillip, Charles La Trobe for a site for an Anglican school, but the present site was not…
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502 STURT STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0044The foundation stone of St Andrew's Kirk, Ballarat was laid in 1862 and construction of the bluestone building with freestone detailing was completed in 1864, on the corner of Sturt and…
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185-193 FITZROY STREET AND 12 COWELL STREET FITZROY, YARRA CITY
VHR H0097The Christian Israelite Sanctuary complex comprising the Sanctuary, former kitchen and Christian Israelite Hall in Fitzroy Street and dwelling known as Malgre Tout, Cowell Street in…
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2-4 BARKLY STREET BALLARAT EAST, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0106The Jewish Synagogue in Barkly Street, Ballarat was built in 1861 anddesigned by the local architect, T. B. Cameron for the Ballarat Hebrewcongregation. The first Jewish service was held in…
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9/3 DAWSON STREET SOUTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0107The Former Baptist Church, 3 Dawson Street, Ballarat, was designed by Ballarat architect J.A. Doane, begun in 1866-67 and completed externally in 1875-79. The Baptist Church is located in a…
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15 ST ANDREWS STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0124The St Andrew's Church Precinct consists of a graveyard (1843), school house (1857), church (1857 and 1962), parish hall (1925), lych gate (post 1926), gate post (1842-50) and vicarage…
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1702-1708 SYDNEY ROAD CAMPBELLFIELD, HUME CITY
VHR H0127Scots Church was established in Campbellfield on five acres of land donated to the Presbyterian Church by pastoralist Neil Campbell in 1842. In that year a timber church was constructed on…
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10 GLENLYON ROAD BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0129Christ Church in Glenlyon Road, Brunswick is a stuccoed brick structure of cruciform plan with a detached campanile. The building was built in stages between 1857 and 1875. The nave was…
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11 STANTON STREET ABBOTSFORD, YARRA CITY
VHR H0141The former Church of Christ, Abbotsford was designed by architect and congregation member Jonathan Rankine and built in 1888-9 to replace an earlier building in Langridge Street. The church…
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