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St James Parish Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes: St James Anglican Church originally stood in Collins Street, on a large site bounded by William and Little Collins Streets. The church’s popularity waned as the Gothic Revival progressed and, whether from ecclesiastical prejudice or structural uncertainty, was deemed unsafe. When it was closed in 1912, pioneers rallied to save the church by having it moved and rebuilt on its present site in Batman Street (Lat: -37.81013317659914, Long: 144.95251893997192). It is the first Anglican church and the only surviving example of a once much-used local sandstone quarried from the south side of the Yarra, and an example of inter-colonial architectural influence-Robert Russell, the designer, drew on the work of Francis Greenway in Sydney. Russell was succeeded by Charles Laing, who added the side porches, a tall octagonal tower above Russell’s square tower and the remarkable 'east' end (now the north end, as the church was turned 90 degrees when it was relocated), which has been claimed to be based on the entrance to Robert Adam’s Edinburgh University. The antique character of Old St James' was maintained after its rebuilding with some significant changes: the two-stage square tower has been raised to three stages and the blind windows changed from two to three; of the tall, two stage octagonal tower, only the upper part was reproduced.
Source: "Melbourne Architecture", reproduced by Peter Maltezos on the Urban Melbourne website.

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	Family	Married		Family ID	Tree
1	Adcock (Brudenell) / McGee	18 Mar 1851	St James Parish Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	F2513	Mitchell Families