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St Mary's Catholic Church

Location 240 - 256 Main Street (Cnr Pyke Street), BAIRNSDALE VIC 3875 - Property No B4459 File Number B4459 Level Regional

[1/1] B4459 St Mary's Catholic

Statement of Significance

One of the most remarkable of the red brick Roman churches by the architect A A Fritsch, begun in 1913 and extended in 1937, combining Romanesque and Byzantine external features such as a wheel window and a dome surmounting the unusually tall tower, but distinguished most of all by the remarkable decorative scheme over the whole of the barrel-vaulted interior in the form of paintings of mediocre quality but in overwhelming profusion, executed by the Italian Francesco Floreani in 1931-4 and after the extension of the building.
Classified: 21/06/1984