St Jude's Anglican Church
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St Jude's Anglican Church is a church in the Melbourne
suburb of Carlton
and is one of the first complete polychromatic brick churches built in Australia
. It was opened in 1866 as a temporary wooden building, but was rebuilt as a Gothic-polychrome building between 1866 and 1874. It contains an intact early pipe organ installed in 1868 to the design of George Finchamby, a leading nineteenth century organ builder who arrived in Australia in 1852.
Current vicar Richard Condie writes on the St Jude's, "I’d like to welcome you to St Jude’s, and to say how delighted I am that you are taking the time to find out more about this great church. St Jude’s has a long history of welcoming people from many different backgrounds."
The site is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register
.
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
suburb of Carlton
Carlton, Victoria
Carlton is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne...
and is one of the first complete polychromatic brick churches built in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It was opened in 1866 as a temporary wooden building, but was rebuilt as a Gothic-polychrome building between 1866 and 1874. It contains an intact early pipe organ installed in 1868 to the design of George Finchamby, a leading nineteenth century organ builder who arrived in Australia in 1852.
Current vicar Richard Condie writes on the St Jude's, "I’d like to welcome you to St Jude’s, and to say how delighted I am that you are taking the time to find out more about this great church. St Jude’s has a long history of welcoming people from many different backgrounds."
The site is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register
Victorian Heritage Register
The Victorian Heritage Register lists places of cultural heritage significance to the State of Victoria, Australia. It has statutory weight under the Heritage Act 1995 which establishes Heritage Victoria as the permit authority...
.