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Seamen's Chapel
1937
The Church of England bought the former Union Bank of Australia, 1889, 4 High Street, cnr Cliff Street in 1930 to serve as the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen. I assume the Church built the small building next door for use as the Seamen's Chapel 1937-1960.
Both Chapel and Bank are now part of Notre Dame University, which planned in 2019 to convert the Chapel for use a gallery to show the work of architecture students and local artists, though it hasn't happened yet (2021).
Heritage Council:
The former chapel comprises a single storey painted brick building, with a low-pitched hipped tile roof and simple crenelation cornice. The west side of the façade features a mitred hip roof and a brick inbuilt cross above the arched entrance with two tongue and groove timber doors with large exposed hinges. The facade also has three metal-framed arch windows.
References and Links
See also Rosa Henriques Smith, and her Sailor's Rest, which preceded the chapel, and the Flying Angel Club, which followed it.
Roel Loopers, 'Notre Dame creates art space in Chapel', freoview blog.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 7 July, 2017 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/seamenschapel.html (it was last updated on 23 November, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.