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187336

St George's Anglican Church & Robert MacKenzie Pipe Organ

55 Lucknow Street, TRAVANCORE VIC 3032 - Property No B2890

Church Statement: An architecturally remarkable, if not wholly felicitous church-cum-hall built in 1925-6 to the design of Louis Williams. It is distinguished externally by the jerkin-head gable projecting over the bell and by the rectilinear fenestration below. Internally the hammer-beam trusses and exposed brickwork evoke the English Arts & Crafts while the extraordinary form of the pew-ends gives them the appearance of teetering over backwards. Classified ... more

B2890

Regional
67537

Baptist Church

170-174 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0082

The grandest classical church building in Victoria, designed by Joseph Reed and built in 1861-2, incorporating part of the previous building of 1845 by John Gill to which the gallery was added internally. The tetrastyle prostyle Corinthian portico is set imposingly at the head of a flight of steps from Collins Street; with its finely detailed lintels and brackets it is the oldest complete example surviving on any non-residential building in the state. The low shop which has ... more

B0082

National
67756

Former Presbyterian Church

Chinese Baptist School ,  Uniting Church

6 Highbury Grove,, KEW VIC 3101 - Property No B2594

A Presbyterian church of 1887 designed by Nathaniel Billing, and of some interest for the spire and pinnacles of cement based "hydraulic stone". Classified: 05/08/1971

B2594

Local
67966

Chinese Mission Church

Church of England Mission

119 - 125 Little Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6636

Nahum Barnett accepted tenders for erection of this Chinese Mission Chapel and student's quarters in 1902. The Mission was run by Cheong Cheok Hong. The building is a substantial composition in red brick in the form of a warehouse with reference to the Gothic style in the lancet windows, rendered mouldings, brick pilasters and corbelling. The building is a substantial element of Chinatown and demonstrates Chinatown's function as a centre of Chinese social and religious ... more

B6636

Regional
186143

Former Wesleyan Methodist Church & Organ

Carlton Methodist Mission ,  Church Of All Nations

180 Palmerston Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B4851

The Churchwas built in 1869-70 to a design by the distinguished Melbourne architect Joseph Reed of Reed & Barnes. It replaced a timber church which had opened in Palmerston Street in 1861. In 1869 Reed was commissioned to design a larger church of bluestone, which opened 6 March 1870. The contractor was John Pigdon. Due to the lack of funds the top of the tower, the spire and the side balconies inside were never built and the nave was shortened. In 1876 the ... more

B4851

State
68189

St Stephen's Presbyterian Church

St Stephen's Uniting Church

158 Balaclava Road,, CAULFIELD VIC 3162 - Property No B3368

A cruciform church designed by Robert Haddon in a mannered modern brick Gothic, incorporating remnants of a traditional vocabulary to create a bold and individual effect, of interest for its elaborately traceried windows and cross motif incorporated in the facade. Classified: 16/10/1975

B3368

Local
68368

Former St John's Wesleyan Church & Organ

St John's Uniting Church

34 Electra Street,, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B3726

Church - A large bluestone church with yellow brick and cement details, built in 1876 to the design of Crouch & Wilson. The building is in the form of a hall church with nave and aisles separated by slender cast iron columns. The main facade incorporates twin doorways with unusual hood mouldings. There is a pipe organ by Fincham & Hobday with diape red front pipes. Classified: 13/07/1989 Organ - A two-manual organ of 20 stops built in 1893 by Fincham & ... more

B3726

State
187846

Former Methodist Church

Mountain Highway, WANTIRNA VIC 3152 - Property No B3228

B3228

File only
 

Positive Organ - St Andrew's Anglican Church

St Kinnord Street,, ABERFELDIE VIC 3040 - Property No B6215

A single-manual organ of five stops built in the early years of the present century by the Positive Organ Company, London, for a church at Levuka, Fiji, and installed at Aberfeldie in 1963. One of two 'Positive' organs in Victoria (the other at St Luke's, Yea), this instrument is substantially unaltered and has an attractive Gothic case with two painted towers containing spotted metal pipes. Classified: 20/03/1991

B6215

Regional
83851

Presbyterian Church

265 Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, cnr Grahams Road, KANGAROO GROUND VIC 3097 - Property No B5138

A small brick church consecrated in 1878 and attributed to the architect C W Maplestone, which is of some interest for the banded bichrome voussoirs and more especially for its extremely close resemblance to Nathaniel Billing's St John's, Cranbourne of 1864-5. Apart from the addition of a vestry in 1892 the building is intact. Classified: 08/07/1982 Revised: 08/12/1988

B5138

Local
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