(FORMERLY ANGLICAN)DONALD STREET, HIGHETT Empty for seven years and demolished overnight. This church was at risk when I wrote the description that follows. It had been sold in 2013 but was still standing locked and empty. Out of the blue it was demolished in late March, before I could get a photograph. The location ofContinue reading “ST STEPHEN’S, HIGHETT”
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ST MARTIN’S, HAWKSBURN
(ANGLICAN) CROMWELL ROAD, HAWKSBURN A fine nineteenth-century church on a hill in inner Melbourne. But how secure is its future? St Martin’s is a lofty barnlike church with some nice decorative details. The walls are in polychrome brick, partly diaper-patterned. The wide apse has a three-light traceried window at the east, set into its ownContinue reading “ST MARTIN’S, HAWKSBURN”
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