St Michael's Church and Presbytery, 456 Dryburgh Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme102885, 510771, 510772, 645507
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St Michael's Church and Presbytery, 456 Dryburgh Street, North Melbourne
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Grading as at 1982 : DPeriod : Federation (1907)Grantee : J W Leonard & others 1865Federation brick Church and PresbyterySt Michael's was originally located at the north east corner of Arden and Dryburgh Streets from 1868. It served as an adjunct of the St Mary's church and school and was extended and consecrated as a Chapel in 1880. St Michael's parish was separated in 1903 with John Norris as a parish priest. Land was acquired next to the Bible Christian Church (Brougham Street) on the Dryburgh Street hillside and designs carried out for a new and larger church in 1907 by architects Grainger, Kennedy and Little. Melbourne builder Thomas Sanders took the contract at £5865 unfitted. [The Advocate 15 June 1907 p 18; St Mary's Star of the Sea 1873-1973 (unpublished pamphlet)]A gabled reed brick and stucco church after the French Romanesque style, with arched triple lights as a clerestory and arcaded lighting and a foiled wheel window at the west end. Square corner towers support octagonal spirelets at the western corners, with foiled-arch niches occurring here and in the centre gable-buttress. A tower was intended at the north-west corner.A sacristy, baptistry, chapels and confessionals protrude from the church body whilst a zinc-roofed fleche, 8.5 m high, is placed at the gable, over a domed roof light at the main sanctuary.Internally, the interior walls and ceilings are ornamented in a 'structural' manner with the clerestory lighting set up in blind arcades springing from serlian-configured column groups : side aisles being separated from the nave by open arcades; and the arch motif being continued in a segmented form in the panelled ceiling and as a screen behind the altar : all achieved in hard and fibrous plaster. Cathedral glass was used in the lights and Californian red pine in the joinery.Architecturally it exemplifies the Romanesque and Byzantine influence, popular early in 20th century, but is incomplete without the tower. It is generally original and provides civic focus to a residential precinct.
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