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St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church & School

Location

631 - 653 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3389

File Number

B3389

Level

Local

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B3389 St Augustines

Statement of Significance

Church: A church unusual in the central city for its parish church scale and surviving garden. It is of bluestone with cement dressings and was designed by T.A. Kelly. The first section was built in 1869 - 70 and the chancel added in 1884 by J.B. Denny. The building is of the hall church type, incorporating a nave and aisles with cast iron columns, elaborate window tracery, apsidal chancel and a tower which was extended in 1936 . The windows include stained glass by Ferguson and Urie.

School: Bluestone, pressed cement dressings to windows and buttresses. Church is rectangular, but by use of iron columns, spandrels and the arrangement of roof trusses has the effect of a nave, aisles and transept.
Classified: 07/12/1973

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