Vol 2 Heritage Policy Citation Review - City of Greater Bendigo

City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Policy Citations Project Lovell Chen, 2010
Name St Mary the Virgin Anglican
Church (demolished)
Address 193 High Street, accessed from
Church Street, Kangaroo Flat
Reference in 1998
Marong Study
KF5
Map reference VicRoads 613 M4
Building type Church (demolished) Survey date June 2010
Date of
construction
1862 (demolished 2009) Recommendation Recommended for
inclusion in the Victorian
Heritage Inventory
Significance St Mary the Virgin Anglican Church (site of) is not of sufficient heritage
significance to be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay, but is
recommended for inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Inventory.
Left: East elevation of former St Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, undated. (Source: Photographic
History of Kangaroo Flat, private publication, Kangaroo Flat, 1994, volume 1, not paginated.) Right:
Aerial view of the Anglican reserve, February 2007. The church is circled (Source: Google Earth).
Left: Aerial of the Anglican reserve, May 2010, following the fire of December 2008. (Source: City of
Greater Bendigo). Right: The Anglican reserve pictured from the west, with the site of the former
church at left (void) and the present church (former parish hall) at right (2010).
Intactness Good Fair Poor
History
The first Anglican services at Kangaroo Flat are believed to have been held in 1858, in the school room
in Kangaroo Gully. The present two-acre Anglican reserve, south of Kangaroo Flat’s historic core, was
granted in 1862. 1 The original reserve has not been subdivided, with the exception of two blocks in
the south-west. A church was constructed on the site in 1862, designed by the prolific and notable
church architect Nathaniel Billing. Its construction was supervised by the architect and land surveyor
1