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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Her Majesty's Theatre 199-219 Exhibition Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B5110	This Moderne styled theatre, housed in an altered 19th century shell designed by Nahum Barnet, is the second known large-scale use of this European style surviving as an Australian interior and the earliest surviving example to utilise most of the style's eventual palette of finishes and forms. As such it heralded the countless Moderne styled cinemas which proliferated in the late 1930s. Complementary to the new cherubless decor were the technological innovations announced at its ... more	B5110	State
Former Crown Law Office & John Simpson Mackennal Sculpture Supreme Court Annexe & Court Of Appeal & Crown Solicitors' Office 455-469 Lonsdale Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B2935	Building Statement of Significance: An imposing building in a flamboyant Renaissance manner carried out in beautiful material (stone). Such buildings contributed a tremendous amount towards making Melbourne the city it became. Designed by S. E. Bindley within the Public Works Office and completed in 1893. Classified: 08/07/1971 Public Art Statement of Significance: John Simspon Mackennal's high relief, Law, is significant as a rare surviving example of a ... more	B2935	State
Former John Knox Free Presbyterian Church Church of Christ 327 - 333 Swanston Street and 178 Little Lonsdale Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0824	A church built in 1863 to the design of Charles Webb, with what is possibly the most elaborate stuccoed Gothic facade in Victoria. In typical Webb fashion the decoration is concentrated on the central panel of the entrance (ecclesiastical west) front incorporating porch, traceried window, flanking octagonal turrets and piered parapet, and there is a generic resemblance to Webb's rather simpler Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, Latrobe Street (1871). Classified: ... more	B0824	Local
W J Carr Pty Ltd 95-99 Bay Street,, PORT MELBOURNE VIC 3207 - Property No B5194	Demolished 2011. Sign Only remains.	B5194	File only
Former St John's Church of England & Organ St John's Anglican Church & Organ 510 Toorak Road,, TOORAK VIC 3142 - Property No B0228	A prominent bluestone church, designed by W W Wardell, built in various stages between 1860 and 1873, with the subsequent enlargement of the chancel in 1912 and the addition of the baptistery, vestries and chapel in 1920, 1935, and 1937, to the design of Walter Butler and Louis R Williams. This was Wardell's first Anglican design, carried out on an honorary basis, and gave rise to suspicion that he was unfairly trying to develop an Anglican practice. The building comprises a ... more	B0228	State
St John's Anglican Church - Walhalla WALHALLA VIC 3825 - Property No B1778	Constructed 1918.	B1778	File only
A J Thomas' Motor Garage Beaton & Sons , C & F Motors , P J Regan Motor Garage 102 Manifold Street and Cnr Cressy Road,, CAMPERDOWN VIC 3260 - Property No B6905	A J Thomas' Motor Garage, developed in stages between 1908 and 1936, probably designed by W P Knights, is of historical and architectural importance at the State level. A J Thomas' is historically important as a substantially intact, purpose-built motor garage from the inter-war period, when automobile ownership and recreational car touring were increasing. Its exuberant architecture celebrated the growing prominence of the car in society, and helped to draw the attention ... more	B6905	State
Former St John's Church of England St John's Anglican Church 105 Napier Street,, CRESWICK VIC 3363 - Property No B5859	An attractive bluestone church of importance for its stained glass. It was designed by H R Caselli of Ballarat and began in 1861, the tower being added later. The building comprises a nave, chancel, organ chamber and west end tower with prominent corner pinnacles and crenellated parapet. The nave has a fine hammerbeam roof and rear gallery and stained glass windows by British, European and local makers. Classified: 04/08/1988	B5859	Local
Former St James Church of England- Mortlake Historic Area St James Anglican Church Shaw Street,, MORTLAKE VIC 3272 - Property No B0058	Adiminutive bluestone church with four-bay nave, vestry and chancel designed by Leonard Terry and built in 1864-5. The exterior is dominated by a prominent bell-cote, substantial raking buttresses, and windows with crisply detailed trefoil heads. The incongruous porch of 1962-3 is excluded from the classification. Classified: 'Local' 01/02/1965 Revised: 26/05/1988 Historic Area Statement of Significance: The significance of the Shaw Street precinct derives from ... more	B0058	Regional
St John's Presbyterian Church 45 Forest Street, (Cnr McKenzie Street), BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No B4643	A prominently-sited brick church, with exuberantly eclectic detailing, designed by W.C. Vahland and built in 1890-91, with a massive corner tower and octagonal copper spire, multiple gables and curvilinear window tracery. Classified: 18/05/1989	B4643	Regional

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