Churches
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Organ Manufacturer: John Courcelle
Geelong, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1843
Address: Corner Moorabool & McKillop Streets, , Geelong Victoria, 3220
The oldest Anglican church in Victoria. The Foundation stone was laid on 7 October 1843 by Willian Grant Broughton first Bishop of Australia. A simple Gothic style parish Church dating from 1847, has been described as; the oldest in Victoria in continuous use; and one which is associated with the earliest history of the Anglican Church…
Geelong, VIC - Church of Christ
Year Built: 1858
Address: 275 La Trobe Terrace, , Geelong Victoria, 3220
The Free Church of England was formed in the early 1850s by the Reverend G Brough, as a local breakaway group from the Anglican Church in Australia. The church was closed in 1875 and reopened for a short time in 1884. In 1914 the Church of Christ acquired this unusually designed early English Gothic Church, with the most distinctive…
South Melbourne, VIC - St Luke's Anglican
Year Built: 1857
Address: 221 Dorcas Street, , South Melbourne Victoria, 3205
St Luke's was erected in 1857, enlarged in 1859 and consecrated in May 1861 as the parish Church for the growing municipality of Emerald Hill (South Melbourne). The design of the cruciform plan timber roofed church, constructed of basalt with minimal freestone dressings and originally intended to be crowned by a lofty tower and spire, is…