(ANGLICAN)ALBERT STREET, SEBASTOPOL, BALLARAT Roof repairs beyond the parish resources. Well, at least it’s not going to be Heavenly Pizzas or an “Arts Hub”. Sebastopol Anglican church, Holy Trinity, on the southern fringe of Ballarat, has been sold to a Sikh group, who will use it as a centre for their community. From Anglicanism toContinue reading “HOLY TRINITY, SEBASTOPOL”
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DAYLESFORD UNITING CHURCH
CENTRAL SPRINGS ROAD, DAYLESFORD One of the finest spires in country Victoria. Above the trees that cloak the hill on which the pretty central Victorian spa town of Daylesford is built, three silhouettes stand out as you approach from the south: the spiky turret of the state school, the square Italianate tower of the postContinue reading “DAYLESFORD UNITING CHURCH”
NEIL STREET UNITING CHURCH BALLARAT
(FORMERLY METHODIST)CORNER OF NEIL AND MACARTHUR STREETS, BALLARAT Yet another “arts centre”. One by one, they shut down, the Uniting churches of Ballarat. The most prominent, St Andrew’s, and the Pleasant Street church have already long since passed into secular use (see separate posts). Soon the only church left in the city centre will beContinue reading “NEIL STREET UNITING CHURCH BALLARAT”
HOLY NATIVITY, HUGHESDALE
(ANGLICAN)Poath Road, Hughesdale Not reopened after the pandemic. Holy Nativity Anglican church in Hughesdale was dedicated in 1961 as a chapel of ease (a branch church in effect) in the then well attended middle-class suburban parish of St Peter’s, Murrumbeena. It replaced a smaller timber church subsequently used as a hall. Like other such buildingsContinue reading “HOLY NATIVITY, HUGHESDALE”
CHURCH OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, IVANHOE EAST
(ROMAN CATHOLIC)Corner of Wilfrid and Robinhood Roads, Ivanhoe East. Melbourne’s first church inspired by the Modern movement. This church has had a very short life, 66 years, just up to the age of being pensioned off. It was the first Modernist church in Melbourne, the first designed by the firm of Mockridge, Stahle and Mitchelland isContinue reading “CHURCH OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, IVANHOE EAST”
AUBURN UNITING CHURCH
(UNITING, FORMERLY METHODIST),CORNER OXLEY ROAD AND HEPBURN STREET, AUBURN A noble bell tower with no bell. This remarkable building might have been designed as a variation on Mark Twain’s description of Maryborough and its grandiose railway station – a “station with a town attached”. This is a tower with a church attached. No Methodist understatementContinue reading “AUBURN UNITING CHURCH”
ALL SAINTS’, WEST FOOTSCRAY
(ANGLICAN)CORNER OF BALLARAT ROAD AND MAY STREET, WEST FOOTSCRAY A fine example of 1960s “contemporary”. This church, ultra-contemporary for its time, seems to have escaped the notice of heritage consultants and architectural historians. Possibly that is because of its locality, on the corner of one of the most dispiriting suburban roads in a shabby partContinue reading “ALL SAINTS’, WEST FOOTSCRAY”
ST AGNES’S, BLACK ROCK
(ANGLICAN)ARKARINGA CRESCENT, BLACK ROCK Rus in urbe beside the bay. St Agnes’s is a country church in a suburb. It was in the country, more or less, when it was built, and has kept that air, even to the extent of acquiring a thoroughly unsuitable flat-roofed extension at the front for before- and after-service get-togethers,Continue reading “ST AGNES’S, BLACK ROCK”
EAST IVANHOE UNITING CHURCH
CORNER LOWER HEIDELBERG ROAD AND KING STREET, EAST IVANHOE Valuable site: the East Ivanhoe Uniting church and its land were sold for more than $11 million. Here’s an illustration of how quickly churchgoing has declined in well-to-do suburbs where not long ago churches were at the centre of local life. The East Ivanhoe Uniting churchContinue reading “EAST IVANHOE UNITING CHURCH”
ST PATRICK’S, ROKEWOOD
(ROMAN CATHOLIC)COLAC-BALLARAT ROAD, ROKEWOOD One more disposal in what looks like a clearance sale. The Roman Catholic authorities in Ballarat are at it again, selling off a perfectly good solid church building which will now be mutilated architecturally by being put to some secular use, probably as someone’s house. They’d hardly got the very handsomeContinue reading “ST PATRICK’S, ROKEWOOD”
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