Ivanhoe, VIC - St James Anglican

Year Built: 1908

Denomination: Anglican

Saint: James

Address: Corner Upper Heidelberg Road & Noel Street, Ivanhoe, Victoria, 3079

Architect: North and Williams

Traditional Owners: Wurundjeri people

Last Updated: 14/11/2023

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History and Architecture:

1908 was the year St James became a parish in it's own right sixty years after the establishment of the City of Melbourne. The Foundation stone was laid by the Governor of Victoria on 21 October 1908. The Vicarage in Noel Street was erected at a cost of £631.The original Rose window was replaced in 2003 with one that commemorates the centenary of the Ivanhow Girls Grammar School.

Designed in freely modified Gothic style, the Church is of face red brick, with contrasting rendered bands, window dressings and plinth, and a gabled Marseilles pattern tiled roof. Surmounting the ridge of the roof is a metal clad fleche with a flared base. Tall narrow windows are arranged in groups on the north and west elevations, separated by deep rendered brick mullions. Those on the west gable end have trefoil bas-relief window heads. Other features include a pointed arched doorway and half-timbered gabled end on the north elevation.

The church was extended to the east and south under architect Louis Williams in the late 1930s, including the addition of a number of Christian Waller stained-glass windows.  The church holds one of the best collections of her work.  Major internal renovations were done in the late 1970s.  In the early 1990s windows from St Stephen's Darebin were relocated to St.James' after the closure of St. Stephen's.

Clergy:

This list may not contain every serving cleric, past or present, for this church.
Further submissions welcomed.

Years Name Annotation D.o.B D.o.D
1908 - 1912 Rev Alfred Roscoe Wilson 1882 1964
1912 - 1913 Rev Horace Crotty 1886 1952
1913 - 1919 Rev Sydney Leonard Buckley 1882 1964
1917 - 1919 Rev Robert Hamilton Locum 1864 1946
1919 - 1922 Rev Stephen Percy Hatherton Martin 1872 1957
1922 - 1928 Rev Frank Lynch 1868 1929
1927 - 1935 Rev Godfrey Hull Smith 1869 1938
1932 - 1935 Rev Allen Ernest Winter Curate 1903 1997
1935 - 1949 Rev Thomas Cole 1884 1975
1938 - Rev Albert George Church Reader 1914 2011
1941 - 1942 Rev Egan Moulton Eggleston Curate 1907 1992
1942 - 1945 Rev Henry James Bondfield Stephens Curate 1863 1950
1945 - 1946 Rev Donald Kinglake Dunn Curate 1914 1988
1945 - 1947 Rev Herbert Douglas Campbell Curate 1887 1960
1948 - 1948 Rev Albert George Church Locum 1914 2011
1948 - 1950 Rev R. J. McCall
1949 - 1964 Rev Canon Raymond Mansfield Hudson 1899 1999
1956 - 1958 Rev John Richard Kainey Asst
1957 - Rev Frank Ellis Thornton Locum 1885 1978
1961 - 1962 Rev N. L. Curtis
1965 - 1977 Rev J. Shilton
1970 - 1972 Rev Peter James Hedderwick Adam Asst C
1972 - 1974 Rev Adrian Roberts Moore Asst C 1940
1977 - 1982 Rev Howard Frederick Dillon 1939
1981 - 1983 Rev David James Powys Asst C 1954
1982 - 1993 Rev Edward Charles Smith
1993 - 2002 Rev John Clarke 2023
2002 - 2008 Rev D. Bassett
2009 - 2013 Rev Richard Bruce
2013 - 2022 Rev Stephen May
2023 - Rev Mike McNamara

Organ:

No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.

Contributions:

1. 2023 Louise Ryan with additional building and clergy details.

Source:

1. Cable Clerical Index with permission.
2. Banyule Heritage Study.