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State: Victoria, Denomination: Anglican
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…
South Yarra, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Address: 677 Punt Road, , South Yarra Victoria, 3141
Early services were held in the nearby Presbyterian Sunday School. A building committee was formed early in 1854, and formal trustees appointed at the end of March 1854. The first vicar was licensed and it appears that the church was designated ‘Christ Church’ in late December 1855 or early January 1856. The church building was…
Spotswood, VIC - St Mark's Anglican
Year Built: 2016
Address: 616 Melbourne Road , , Spotswood Victoria, 3015
The current church was opened in 2016. To fund the redevelopment, the parish sold St Paul’s church at Kingsville to an Antiochene Orthodox parish. There are two foundation stones, one reads," To the Glory of God this stone was laid by the Most Reverend J.J. Booth C.M.G. M.C. D.D. May 12th 1957". The other stone reads, " Consecrated to the…
Springvale, VIC - Anglican church of Asension
Address: 4 Boonah Street, , Springvale Victoria, 3171
St Albans, VIC - St Alban the Martyr Anglican
Address: 20 Alexina Street, , St Albans Victoria, 3021
St Andrews, VIC - St Matthew's Anglican
Address: 6 Heidelberg Kinglake Road, , St Andrews Victoria, 3761
Build in the mid-1800s during a time when the prospect of gold might be found in the area.
St Arnaud, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1864
Address: Corner Queens Avenue & Raglan Streets, , St Arnaud Victoria, 3478
Early in 1862 a committee was formed to establish how many followers of the faith were in the region. By April of the same year an application for a grant of land was made. Monthly services were commenced and conducted by Reverend T.B. Garlick on Avoca and Reverend W. Hall of Kingower.* Tenders were called in 1864 for a church that…
St Helena, VIC - St Katherine's Anglican
Year Built: 1856
Address: St Helena Road, , St Helena Victoria, 3088
The story of this church commences on the island of St Helena on 3 November 1790 when Anthony Beale was born. He later worked as paymaster for the East India Company on the island, retired back to England when the East India Company lost the lease to St Helena, married Katherine Rose Young, produced 17 children before they all moved to…
St Kilda, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Address: 14 Ackland Street, , St Kilda Victoria, 3182
A temporary wood & brick church was also built early 1850s. Construction of the current church commenced in November 1854. The foundation stone was laid on 29 November 1854. The first sections of the church were designed by Melbourne Diocesan architects Albert Purchas & Charles Swyer and were built between 1854 and 1857. The original…
St Kilda, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1854
Address: 14 Ackland Street, , St Kilda Victoria, 3182
The first sections of the Church were designed by Albert Purchas and Charles Swyer and were built between 1854 and 1857, with enlargements taking place in 1874 and 1881 to the design of Sydney W. Smith. This cruciform building, constructed from Point King, Sorrento sandstone is in a massive Decorated Gothic style. The western façade…
St Kilda, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1866
Address: Corner Brighton Road & Dickens Street, , St Kilda Victoria, 3182
The parish of Holy Trinity was formed when it was subdivided from Christ Church to serve Anglicans in south St Kilda and Balaclava. The triangular piece of land on the corner of Brighton Road and Chapel Street was reserved for church purposes in the Victorian Government Gazette on 23 April 1866. The current Church was erected in…
St Kilda, VIC - St Georges Anglican Arts Centre
Year Built: 1877
Address: 25 Chapel Street, , St Kilda Victoria, 3182
One acre of land was reserved in Chapel Street for the Presbyterian Church and was gazetted on 10 September 1866. In June 1876 a public meeting was held in the Orderly Room in Chapel Street, St Kilda East, adjoining the church’s land, to gauge interest in establishing a church. Sunday services began on 13 August 1876 in the Orderly Room…
St Leonards, VIC - St Paul's Anglican
Address: 10 - 12 Dudley Parade, , St Leonards Victoria, 3223
This church began as a simple wooden building constructed from ballast brought out on a sailing ship and erected on the southeast corner of Church Road and the Portarlington/Geelong Road. The Church of England held its first service in the State School, so St Thomas' was born, but it was 1914 before a building was erected. This was…
Stanhope, VIC - St Matthew's Anglican
Year Built: 1967
Address: Brand Street, , Stanhope Victoria, 3623
The Foundation stone was laid on 2 July 1967 by the Bishop of Bendigo the Right Reverend R.E. Richards M.A.
Stawell, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1870
Address: Main Street, , Stawell Victoria, 3380
Even though religious services were held on the Pleasant Creek diggings there appears to have been no formal establishment of services in Stawell until the late 1850s and sites for the various denominations were not reserved until the early 1860's. The township of Stawell was proclaimed on 11 June 1858. This Church was constructed in…
Stratford, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican
Address: 26 McFarlane Street, , Stratford Victoria, 3862
Strathmerton, VIC - St Aidan's Anglican (Former)
Address: 98 Murray Valley Highway, , Strathmerton Victoria, 3641
Sunbury, VIC - St Mary's Anglican
Year Built: 1866
Address: O'Shanassy Street, , Sunbury Victoria, 3429
Built in stages from 1866 in bluestone, the Church is significant for its associations with James Goodall Francis, merchant and politician and Sir William Clarke, prominent landowner, stud breeder and philanthropist. Their association is reflected in some of the interior fittings and stained glass. Both men played a major role in…
Sunshine, VIC - Holy Apostles Anglican
Address: 100 Anderson Road, , Sunshine Victoria, 3020
Surrey Hills, VIC - Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1921
Address: Union Road, , Surrey Hills Victoria, 3127
In 1907 the present Trinity Hall was built as the Holy Trinity Church by Taylor Brother for £595. It was a rough cast building with outside strappings of jarrah timber and a small steeple giving it the appearance of an English church. A larger church was soon required and the present brick church was consecrated in 1922 with the copper…
Swan Reach, VIC - St Columbs Anglican
Address: 2015 Princes Highway, , Swan Reach Victoria, 3903
Swanpool, VIC - St Aidan's Anglican
Year Built: 1921
Address: 7 Swanpool Lima Road, , Swanpool Victoria, 3673
A Foundation stone reads, " The Foundation stone of this Church erected to the Glory of God was laid by the Lord Bishop of Wangaratta 20th May 1921".
Tallangatta, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1955
Address: 16 Toowong Street, , Tallangatta Victoria, 3700
The first Anglican services were held in the Presbyterian Church. The foundation stone of the first Christ Church, Tallangatta was laid by Archdeacon Langley in 1896. The stone has been preserved at the new site, four miles further east down the road. It was taken there before the enlargement of the Hume Weir which submerged the old…
Tamanick, VIC - St George's Anglican
Address: Upper Tamanick Road, , Tamanick Victoria, 3675
Tangambalanga, VIC - St Mark's Anglican
Year Built: 1924
Address: Huon Kiewa Road, , Tangambalanga Victoria, 3691
A Foundation stone reads, " St Mark's Church of England A.M.D.G. This stone was laid by Elizabeth Coulston October 29th 1924 Rev R. Gordon Tavare Rector".
Tarraville, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Address: Tyers Street, , Tarraville Victoria, 3971
The Church is a rectangular timber Gothic Revival building which was built in 1855 to the design of J H Pettit, doyen of Gippsland architects, but much in the manner of the ecclesiologically inspired Selwyn churches designed by Frederick Thatcher in New Zealand. Constructed of wood, the church has been painted blue and cream. It has…
Tarrawingee, VIC - St Stephen's Anglican (Former)
Year Built: 1888
Address: 2261 Beechworth-Wangaratta Road, , Tarrawingee Victoria, 3678
Constructed in 1888 and designed by Gordon & Gordon. The Church was put up for sale in 2022.
Tatura, VIC - All Saints Anglican
Address: 18 Francis Street, , Tatura Victoria, 3616
A wall plaque on the Church halls reads, "To the Glory of God this Foundation stone was set in place by Ronald fifth Bishop of Bendigo 27th February 1960".
Templestowe, VIC - St Mark's Anglican
Address: Dellfield Drive, , Templestowe Victoria, 3106
Terang, VIC - All Saint's Anglican
Year Built: 1898
Address: Thompson Street, , Terang Victoria, 3264
The Church was erected in 1898 and moved to its current site in 1905.
Thornbury, VIC - St James the Great Anglican
Year Built: 1976
Address: Pender Street, , Thornbury Victoria, 3071
A Foundation stone was laid on 2 October 1976 by the most Reverend Frank Woods K.B.E. D.D. Archbishop of Melbourne. Another Foundation stone was laid on 8 June 1969 by Robert Dann Archdeacon. The builder recorded on this stone was A.F.K. Block and the Architect was M.J. Flynn.
Thorpdale, VIC - St Mark's Anglican
Address: Corner Johnson & Robinson Streets, , Thorpdale Victoria, 3835
Tongala, VIC - St James Anglican
Year Built: 1957
Address: St James Street, , Tongala Victoria, 3621
The first church was built in 1913. During 1882 - 1883 an attempt by the Church of England to establish services in the Tongala area proved unsucessful and so it continued for a time under Rochester then in the 1890's under Tatura and later under Kyabrum. By 1912 services and Sunday school were being held in the Public Hall in Magan…
Toolamba, VIC - Anglican (Former)
Year Built: 1913
Address: Rutherford Road, , Toolamba Victoria, 3614
A Foundation stone reads, " This stone was laid by The Right Rev J.D. Langley D.D. 26th November 1913 Assisted by Mrs S. Pogue" A plaque on the front gate post reads, " To the Glory of God and in memory of Chaplain Charles H. Patmore who paid the supreme sacrifice Feb 1942"
Toora, VIC - St Thomas' Anglican (Former)
Year Built: 1892
Address: 7 Dutton Street, , Toora Victoria, 3962
The family of Edward Charles Lousada was prominent in life at this church in the period 1908-11, and the Truscott family was also active. A Historical marker outside the church reads, In November 1889 Mr Stanley Sheppard donated land on which it was proposed that a brick church be built at a cost of 500 pounds. The Bishop of Melbourne…
Tooradin, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1900
Address: 61 South Gippsland Highway, , Tooradin Victoria, 3980
The Church was established in 1900. It was designed by HE Tollhurst and constructed by J O'Donnell of Dandenong. The cost of the building was 175 (with a further 40 for 20 pews and 2 for an altar rail). Built of weatherboard with a gable iron roof with air vents along the ridge line. The c.1964 era narthex has a low pitched roof. It…
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…
Torquay, VIC - St Lukes Anglican
Address: 17 Pride Street, , Torquay Victoria, 3228
While early Anglican families gathered for worship at odd times from 1917, regular services began on the first Sunday in August in 1946 and were held in the Torquay Public Hall. The Ladies' Guild was formed on the 14th of August in the same year. The St Luke's Church building was transported from Fyansford in March 1947, and dedicated…
Trafalgar, VIC - St Mary's Anglican
Year Built: 1926
Address: Corner Church & Contingent Streets, , Trafalgar Victoria, 3824
The first St Mary's Church was opened in 1883 and it was replaced by a second St Mary's in 1906 and a third St Mary's in 1926. The Foundation stone of the third church was laid on 8 June 1926 by the Right Reverend C.H. Cranswick Bishop of Gippsland. Architects were Cawler and Drummond and the church was built by C Ball.