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”