Churches
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Architectural Style: Romanesque
Armadale, VIC - Baptist
Year Built: 1898
Address: 88 Kooyong Road, , Armadale Victoria, 3143
The Foundation stone was laid on 20 July 1898 by Mrs Westmore G. Stephens. The Architect was Sydney Smith and Ogg and the builder was A Parker. It was designed in an advanced Romanesque style in red brick with stucco dressings, dark brick diapering, chequerboard gable treatment and fleche on the roof ridge. The building was later…
Arncliffe, NSW - St Francis Xavier Catholic
Year Built: 1931
Address: 4 Forest Road, , Arncliffe New South Wales, 2205
The Church was designed by Clement Clancy in the Romanesque style and built in 1931. It features a distinctive 33 metre high round Celtic tower. A Foundation stone reads, "This stone was blessed and laid by Archbishop Kelly Dec 3rd 1911".
Ascot Vale, VIC - St Mary's Catholic
Year Built: 1938
Address: 123 St Leonard's Road, , Ascot Vale Victoria, 3032
The Foundation stone of a new church was laid by Archbishop Mannix on 1 July 1934. The church was completed, and opened by Archbishop Mannix on 15 May 1938. It was constructed in the neo-Romanesque architectural style, a revival of the Romanesque style common in Europe between the years 900 and 1200. A full description can be reads…
Ashburton, VIC - St Michael's Catholic
Year Built: 1953
Address: 270 High Street, , Ashburton Victoria, 3147
The first Mass was conducted by Father Patrick Loughnan on Sunday 11 December 1927 at the Ashburton Hall located on the corner of High Street and Johnston Street, just west of the shopping centre. On 26 April 1946 Ashburton was created a parish, entrusted to the care of Father John Ryan who had been an army chaplain. As the parish grew he…
Auburn, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1888
Address: 81 Oxley Road, Hawthorn, , Auburn Victoria, 3123
Between the 1840s and 1880's the Hawthorn Circuit occupied and subsequently outgrew a number of buildings until in 1886 a new larger, site was selected on the corner of Oxley Road and Hepburn Street. Originally a Wesleyan church the building was constructed in the Lombardic Romanesque style. The architect was Alfred Dunn and the…
Benalla, VIC - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1908
Address: Corner Wedge & Arundel Streets, , Benalla Victoria, 3672
The first St Joseph's was built in 1866. The current Church was completed in 1908 in a Romanesque style at a cost of £9,000. The Foundation stone was laid by his Grace the Most Reverend Dr Carr Archbishop of Melbourne on 21 July 1907 assisted by Bishop Reville and Dean Davey 1907. In 1989 a fire destroyed a large part of the building…
Bondi Beach, NSW - St Anne's Catholic
Address: 47 Mitchell Street, , Bondi Beach New South Wales, 2026
The church was designed by Joseph Fowell and Kenneth McConnel, and built from 1934 to 1964 by R. M. Bowcock. It is also known as St. Anne's Church and St Anne's Shrine. The initial brief for St Anne's Shrine required that the church be built in two stages as only half of the proposed budget of £20,000 was available. In 1934 only the…
Brisbane, QLD - St Andrew's Uniting
Year Built: 1905
Address: 299 Ann Street, , Brisbane Queensland, 4000
The church is a well-composed building, relying more for its character relying on the intrinsic characteristics of natural materials and the bold massing of simple forms than on ornamentation and decoration, which are often characteristic of ecclesiastical architecture. The architect, was much influenced by the late Victorian interest in…
Camberwell, VIC - Our Lady of Victories Catholic
Year Built: 1918
Address: 548 Burke Road, , Camberwell Victoria, 3124
The church is built of Barrabool stone, from Waurn Ponds, Geelong. The most prominent external feature is the cupola – the rounded copper dome adorning the church roof. The foundation stone was laid on 25 May 1913, replacing an earlier church-school building dedicated to St John Berchman opened in 1887. The cost of the building was…
Coolangatta, QLD - St Augustine's Catholic
Year Built: 1926
Address: Crn Tweed and McLean Streets, , Coolangatta Queensland, 4225
The Church was opened in 1926. The design was Italian Romanesque with a campanile rising to a height of 110 feet and seating for 800 people. A Foundation stone reads, " he Foundation stone of this church to the Honour and Glory of God under the patronage of St Augustine was blessed and laid by The Most Reverend J. Duhig D.D. Archbishop…
Cootamundra, NSW - Baptist
Year Built: 1899
Address: 90 Thompson Street, , Cootamundra New South Wales, 2590
Dulwich Hill, NSW - St Paul of the Cross Catholic
Year Built: 1927
Address: New Canterbury Road, , Dulwich Hill New South Wales, 2203
In 1906 locals petitioned Cardinal Moran, the Archbishop of Sydney, to have their own church in the area. Approval was given and a block of land was purchased on New Canterbury Road in 1907. The Foundation stone was laid in April 1907 by Cardinal Moran Archbishop of Sydney and the church was completed in 1908. Today this is the parish…
Forrest, ACT - St Christopher's Catholic Cathedral
Year Built: 1938
Address: Franklin Street, , Forrest Australian Capital Territory, 2603
The Cathedral is a Romanesque style building made of brick. The Romanesque wall arches and window jambs are all formed of cream, rounded moulded bricks, as are the door architraves. Its south-east front is symmetrical, dominated by a large rose window above a decorative arched entrance in synthetic stone. Large recessed wall arches in…
Junee, NSW - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1929
Address: Kitchener Street, , Junee New South Wales, 2663
The Foundation stone was laid on 10 March 1929 by the Right Reverend J.W. Dwyer Bishop of Wagga Wagga.
Kilmore, VIC - Primitive Methodist (Former)
Year Built: 1856 - 60
Address: Bourke Street, , Kilmore Victoria, 3764
The Church was the second Primitive Methodist Chapel in Kilmore; the first being a timber structure erected in 1855. When the congregation was admitted to the Melbourne Circuit, and upon the arrival of the Rev. G. Grey, the original structure was sold and this chapel constructed, for the sum of £963. In 1898 the Kilmore Masonic Lodge…
Malvern, VIC - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1908
Address: 47 Stanhope Street, , Malvern Victoria, 3144
The Very Rev. Father (afterwards Dean) Hegarty, parish priest of St. Kilda celebrated the first public Mass for the Catholics of Malvern in the new Malvern Town Hall on the third Sunday of September 1888. An earlier Mass had been said on the 3rd February 1888 at the recently established Convent of the Sacred Heart in Burke Road. In 1889,…
Manly, NSW - St Andrew's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1889
Address: 56 Raglan, , Manly New South Wales, 2095
Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, with Celtic influence and constructed from sandstone with a slate roof, it consists of a nave, vestry and porch dominated by a tall campanile. Walls are generally in rock faced ashlar while quoins and opening surrounds are of smooth dressed finish. The church is considered to be one of the best…
Marrickville, NSW - Church of Christ
Address: 389 Illawarra Road, , Marrickville New South Wales, 2204
The current brick church building opened for worship in January 1912. The Church was built adjoining an earlier church building, and was built in brick in a Romanesque style. The internal dimensions of the church will be 47ft by 36ft. A platform was built at the rear, with sliding doors at the back, giving access to the present…
Melbourne, VIC - St Michael's Uniting
Year Built: 1904
Address: 154 Collins Street, , Melbourne Victoria, 3000
Known as the Collins Street Independent Church. A Mr Hopkins laid the foundation stone of the first church in September 1839 and the building was opened for worship on 1 January 1841. Later when this small chapel had already been enlarged during the 1850's it had outgrown the needs of the Colony and plans had to be made to replace it…
North Adelaide, SA - Baptist
Year Built: 1860
Address: 146 Tynte Street, , North Adelaide South Australia, 5006
The history of this Church dates to 1848 when a group of 21 people left the Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, uncomfortable with the closed-mindedness of the majority of the congregation, and founded a new Church. In 1850, they built a chapel in Lefevre Terrace seating 350. When that proved too small, they acquired the acre of land in Tynte…
North Adelaide, SA - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1848
Address: 35 Palmer Place, , North Adelaide South Australia, 5006
Plans for this Church were brought from England by Bishop Short the Anglo-Norman design was credited to local architects Henry Stuckey and William Weir. Romanesque in style it was constructed of limestone, brick and sandstone trim. It was begun in 1848 with the apse being built after the death of Stuckey in 1851. William Weir and Henry…
Pontville, TAS - St Mark's Anglican
Year Built: 1839
Address: 2 Kimberley Street, , Pontville Tasmania, 7030
The first known divine service was held in a stable adjoining the Military Barracks at Pontville, in 1829, and in a record, amongst the church papers, it is said that the service was not well attended because of nature of the building. Services were also held at the Brighton :schoolhouse, and in 1831 a meeting was called to discuss the…
Rochester, VIC - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1910
Address: 22 Fraser Street, , Rochester Victoria, 3561
The first church Church was blessed and opened on 10th July 1881. A Foundation stone was laid on 16 January 1910. R.E. Symons and Co were the builders and A.A. Feltch were the Architects. The cost of the church was £3,730 and was built by Messrs Moore Bros and Symonds of Echuca. The Church was built of brick with a Romanesque style.…
Sunbury, VIC - St Andrew's Uniting
Year Built: 1904
Address: Corner Brook & O'Shanassy Streets, , Sunbury Victoria, 3429
Surrey Hills, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1915
Address: Corner Canterbury Road & Valonia Avenue, , Surrey Hills Victoria, 3127
The first building was opened on 14 December 1884 when three special services were conducted by Reverends Halley, Browne and King. By 1886, when it was admitted to the Congregational Union, the new church had fifteen members. It was called the Wyclif Congregational Church. The Foundation stone at this location was laid by the Right Hon…
Taralga, NSW - Christ the King Catholic
Year Built: 1934
Address: 15 MacArthur Street, , Taralga New South Wales, 2580
The Church of Christ the King is a red brick Inter-War-Romanesque structure approximately 31 metres (102 ft) long and by 12 metres (39 ft) wide. The nave consists of six bays with a large sanctuary at the east and an entry narthex and choir loft at the west of the church. The Church was designed by Sydney Smith of Ogg & Serpell and built…
Tatura, VIC - Sacred Heart Catholic
Year Built: 1912
Address: 67 Hogan Street, , Tatura Victoria, 3616
A Foundation stone reads, "Erected 1912 The Most Revd Dr Reville O.S.A. Bishop of Sandhurst Rev T.J. O'Connell Kempson & Conolly Architects Melb".
Templestowe, VIC - St Haralambos Greek Orthodox
Year Built: 1990
Address: Corner Porter Street & Church Road, , Templestowe Victoria, 3106
The Church was designed by Peter A. Damos Pty Ltd, a firm of South Melbourne architects, and built in 1990, by Damos with help from the church community. The church has a Romanesque basilican plan with a three-bay, barrel-vaulted porch and squat round-headed campaniles to the west front. The section is also basilican: a nave and two…
Toowong, QLD - St Ignatius Catholic
Year Built: 1929
Address: 30 Kensignton Terrace, , Toowong Queensland, 4066
The foundation stone of the present church was laid on 16 June 1929 and the building was opened on 18 May 1930. Built in the Italian Romanesque style and designed by the Sydney architect, John Francis Hennessey, the building features polychrome brickwork.
Watsons Bay, NSW - Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic
Year Built: 1909
Address: 341 Ols South Head Road, , Watsons Bay New South Wales, 2030
A large Romanesque style Church constructed of coursed random rock faced sandstone ashlar from stone quarried on site. The eastern portion was built 1909-10. It has been added to in 1929, 1940 and 1966 by the architect Clem Clancy using the same materials and form of construction. Roof is slate, internal walls are painted plaster and…
Waverley, NSW - Mary Immaculate & St Charles Borromeo Catholic
Year Built: 1890
Address: 45 Victoria Street, , Waverley New South Wales, 2024
Constructed between 1890 and 1915 the cathedral is of the Classical Revival style with a faade to lower part of building. Clerestorey level, with its two imposing bell towers, appears to be in a different style. Entrance formed by large, pedimented portico with four, imposing Ionic columns. Ionic pilasters continue around to the sides.…
West Wyalong, NSW - St Mary's Catholic
Year Built: 1929
Address: 47 Church Street, , West Wyalong New South Wales, 2671
‘Rev. John Fogarty was appointed resident priest in 1894, and built an iron church (the ‘tinny’) in 1894, which was replaced by a brick church-school in 1912. The Sisters of Mercy arrived in 1896 to conduct school in the ‘tinny’. A fine brick Romanesque church was opened at West Wyalong on 21 July 1929 under Rev. Garrett Shannon.’
Woolloongabba, QLD - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1930
Address: 68 Hawthorne Street, , Woolloongabba Queensland, 4102
Since 1869, three church buildings have stood on this hill top site. In 1870, a simple wooden church was built after a design by the Irish born, Australian architect, Richard Gailey (1834–1924). At this time, the church was called, Woolloongabba Church of England, South Brisbane. A second church building was dedicated for service on 23…
Yarraville, VIC - St Augustine's Catholic
Year Built: 1924
Address: 71 Somerville Road, , Yarraville Victoria, 3013
The Church is in Romanesque style and was commenced in November 1923. A Foundation stone reads, " A.M.D.G. This stone was laid June 1st 1924 and the Church was blessed and opened Feb 1st 1925. His Grace the Most Rev Daniel Mannix D.D. L.L.D. Archbishop of Melbourne Rev T English P.P.". The Church was constructed between 1918 and 1924…