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Architectural Style: Gothic


Streatham, VIC - St John's Uniting

Streatham, VIC - St John's Uniting

Year Built: 1875

Address: 38 Campbell Street, , Streatham Victoria, 3351

The Church was built in 1875. Badly burnt in 1977, and was restored and rededicated in 1980. Of Early English Gothic design its a four bay, bluestone church with spire capped tower. The Architect was possibly H S Saville. Walls are constructed in random-coursed bluestone with lighter coloured stone dressings and a slate roof.

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Summer Hill, NSW - Summer Hill Church

Summer Hill, NSW - Summer Hill Church

Address: 2 Henson Street, , Summer Hill New South Wales, 2130

The Church of England (now Anglican) Parish of Summer Hill was established in 1881 with Rev John Vaughan as its first Rector. The Foundation Stone of this magnificent church building was laid in 1883 and it was completed in 1906.

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Sunbury, VIC - Methodist (Former)

Sunbury, VIC - Methodist (Former)

Year Built: 1878

Address: Cnr Barkly & Harker Streets, , Sunbury Victoria, 3429

The church was built between 1878-9. Distinguished by its unusual combination of Early English pointed Gothic windows, pilasters, and a more classically pitched roof and pseudo-pediment with picturesque domestic Gothic barge boards.

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Sunbury, VIC - Our Lady of Mt Carmel Catholic

Sunbury, VIC - Our Lady of Mt Carmel Catholic

Year Built: 1864

Address: Macedon Street, , Sunbury Victoria, 3429

Initially pastoral care in the Sunbury district was provided by the Coburg Mission. Father Patrick Dunne began celebrating the Eucharist in homes at Oaklands Junction from 1852. The earliest known Catholic gatherinfgs for Mass were held at the home of mary Daniel who offered her home Narbonne in Oaklands Junction to the visitng Priests.…

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Surrey Hills, VIC - St Stephens Presbyterian

Surrey Hills, VIC - St Stephens Presbyterian

Year Built: 1910

Address: Corner Canterbury & Warrigal Roads, , Surrey Hills Victoria, 3127

The first divine worship at Surrey Hills 6 February 1887 took place in a Recreation Hall in Windsor Crescent. These services continued until a wooden church was built in Boundary Road (now Warrigal Road) and opened for use in March 1889.* In September, 1909, the committee reported that tenders had been called for, ( a new church) and…

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Surry Hills, NSW - St Michael's Anglican

Surry Hills, NSW - St Michael's Anglican

Year Built: 1854

Address: 209 Albion Street, , Surry Hills New South Wales, 2010

St Michael’s began in the late 1830s the way all church begin – as a church plant! The first services were held in the Albion Brewery.2 Following this, the church met at a number of other locations including a school-house and the Darlinghurst Courthouse. The Church was designed by Edmund Blacket in 1854 in the Gothic Revival style.…

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Surry Hills, NSW - St Peter's Catholic

Surry Hills, NSW - St Peter's Catholic

Year Built: 1918

Address: 235 Devonshire Street, , Surry Hills New South Wales, 2010

The Catholic Church and parish of St Peter’s Surry Hills was established in 1880. It arose out of the need to serve a very densely settled and highly Catholic Surry Hills, which had a strong Irish population. On the 19th of September 1880, Archbishop Vaughan laid the foundation stone. The present church, built in Gothic style, was…

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Sydney, NSW - St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral

Sydney, NSW - St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral

Address: Corner George & Bathurst Streets, , Sydney New South Wales, 2000

A small but pleasant Gothic Revival Cathedral in Sydney Freestone of late Colonial and early Victorian periods. Original portion of nave designed by Hume. Substantially completed under Blacket. Exterior has weathered to warm brown colour. Delicate Gothic windows, well proportioned towers and buttressing and a multiplicity of decorated…

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Sydney, NSW - St Mary's Catholic Cathedral

Sydney, NSW - St Mary's Catholic Cathedral

Year Built: 1869

Address: College Street, , Sydney New South Wales, 2000

William Wilkinson Wardell was commissioned by Archbishop Polding to design a new St Mary's following the fire of 1865 which ruined the original Cathedral. It was constructed of dressed local sandstone in the "Gothic Revival" style. There were to be two intermediate stages. A temporary wooden church was constructed, which was also…

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Tarrington, VIC - St Michael's Lutheran

Tarrington, VIC - St Michael's Lutheran

Year Built: 1927

Address: 7901 Hamilton Highway, , Tarrington Victoria, 3301

The first Church was built about 1854, was a pug and timber framed church with a thatched roof, the second was a bluestone church, built in 1858 and the third, also bluestone, built in 1863, which was burnt down in 1944. The present church was erected in 1927. It is built of pressed red bricks with unpainted render details in a late…

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Toorak, VIC - St John's Anglican

Toorak, VIC - St John's Anglican

Year Built: 1860

Address: 86 Clendon Road, , Toorak Victoria, 3142

The first permanent Anglican Church to be erected in the area was, however, Christ Church South Yarra, the land for which was allotted in 1854 on the present site on the corners of Punt Rd and Toorak Rd. Residents of Toorak, including the Governor, initially travelled to Christ Church to attend church services, a distance of more than 2…

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Tungamah, VIC - Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic

Tungamah, VIC - Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic

Year Built: 1886

Address: 7 Barr Street, , Tungamah Victoria, 3728

An article in the Yarrawonga Mercury and Mulwala News of 3 June 1886 reads, " The imposing ceremony of dedicating the newly erected church in this township was performed by the Right Rev. Dr. Seville, 0.S.A., on Sunday, 30th nit., in the presence of a vast congregation. His Lordship was assisted by the Very Rev. Prior Butler, and the…

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Turramurra, NSW - St James Anglican

Turramurra, NSW - St James Anglican

Year Built: 1941

Address: 15 King Street, , Turramurra New South Wales, 2074

The church was designed in English Gothic style by the architects Adam, Wright, and Apperly of Sydney, was opened on Saturday 27 September 1941. A Foundation stone reads, " To the Glory of God this stone was set by The Most Rev H.W.K. Nowll D.D. Archbishop of Sydney 8th March 1941 R. L. Cameron Rector".

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Wangaratta, VIC - St Patricks Catholic

Wangaratta, VIC - St Patricks Catholic

Address: 1 Ford Street, , Wangaratta Victoria, 3677

This is an example of the Gothic Revival style. The original sanctuary and nave are a typical example of Wardell's work and are notable for their simplicity and liturgical correctness. The superb triple lancet stained glass window is a distinctive feature of this section. The west front and tower are elaborately composed and although…

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Watsons Bay, NSW - St Peter's Anglican

Watsons Bay, NSW - St Peter's Anglican

Year Built: 1864

Address: 331 Old South Head Road, , Watsons Bay New South Wales, 2030

A simple sandstone Gothic Revival chapel designed by Edmund Blacket and completed and consecrated in 1864. Built of dressed and picked stone and plain timber shingle roof. The pitched roof diagonally bordered internally and polished as is the fine pointed timber arched trusses. The interior has small but excellent stained glass windows.…

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Waverley, NSW - St Mary the Virgin Anglican

Waverley, NSW - St Mary the Virgin Anglican

Year Built: 1890

Address: 240 Birrell Street, , Waverley New South Wales, 2022

Built in 1890 this church was one of Edmund Blacket's earlier churches. Built by W Bailey its stone church in Ecclesiastical Gothic style. It boasts a long nave with chancel, vestry and two side porches. Dressed sandstone with concrete tiled roof (originally shingled). Paired lancet windows between buttresses. Stained glass with label…

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Wedderburn, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican

Wedderburn, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican

Year Built: 1868

Address: Kerr Street, , Wedderburn Victoria, 3518

The Foundation stone was laid in 1868. The Church is a Gothic Revival structure built of locally quarried sandstone. It has lancet windows with a chancel added in 1909. The design is that believed to be of the Rev. William Hall. Mr Samuel and Mrs Rinder donated a new hall to the Church in memory of their daughter.

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Werribee, VIC - Crossroads Uniting

Werribee, VIC - Crossroads Uniting

Year Built: 1884

Address: Cnr Duncans Road and Synnot Street, , Werribee Victoria, 3030

The Church opened on 28th September 1884 with the bluestone manse at the rear completed n the same year. A plaque on the stone fence reads, " To the Glory of God this fence was built in 1963 of stones from the home of William Leake second President of the Werribee Shire". The Architect was Alexander Davidson and is in the Low and Mixed…

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West Geelong, VIC - St Peter and St Paul Catholic

West Geelong, VIC - St Peter and St Paul Catholic

Year Built: 1864

Address: Mercer Street, , Geelong West Victoria, 3218

On the 25's October 1849, Acting Vicar-General, Rev. N.J. Coffey applied for 2 acres of land near the village of Ashby. The-Governors finally approved the grant on 25 October 1850. By 1855, a brick school had been built on the site now occupied by the Presbytery. The school was used as a venue to celebrate mass on Sundays and holidays of…

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Wickliffe, VIC Uniting (Former)

Wickliffe, VIC Uniting (Former)

Year Built: 1861

Address: Patterson Street, , Wickliffe Victoria, 3379

The Church was sold in 2018.

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Woollahra, NSW - All Saints' Anglican

Woollahra, NSW - All Saints' Anglican

Year Built: 1876

Address: 85 Ocean Street, Woollahra, New South Wales, 2025

Architect was Edmund Blacket and construction took place between 1876 and 1882. The Church was mainly paid for by Henry Mort, the brother of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, as a thanksgiving for the rescue of his wife and child from shipwreak in 1865; as a memorial to his wife, Maria, who died in 1873; and as a church for his clergyman son.…

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