ST. THOMAS AQUINAS' CHURCH
St. Thomas Aquinas is a white Spanish Mission Style Church, a 5 minute walk from Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. It is located at 43 Bromby Street, South Yarra. Bromby Street runs off St. Kilda Road near the Shrine of Remembrance. Bromby Street can be reached from Toorak Road via Arnold Street, or from Domain Road via Domain Street.
| 43 Bromby Street South Yarra, Victoria 3141 |
| Postal: |
PO Box 21 South Yarra, Victoria 3141 |
| Phone: |
(03) 9826 9677 |
| Fax: |
(03) 9804 7813 |
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HISTORY
A Chapel of Ease was erected and opened on 21st February at 48 Bromby Street in 1915 for a combined cost of 3,200 pounds. The chapel was reconstructed and blessed by Archbishop Mannix on 30th September 1954. It was decorated with a Spanish Baroque facade and incorporated the original red brick building. In its earlier years the chapel had been known for a time as the “servants’ church”.
In 1976 the administration of the parish was entrusted to the Order of St. Augustine by Archbishop Francis Little, a strange quirk of fate given that the first priest had himself received his early education from the same religious order over 100 years previously.
(Interior of St. Thomas' Church circa 1970.)
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