St John’s Anglican Church located in Portarlington, Victoria, was designed in the Victorian Gothic style by Melbourne architects Terry and Oakden. Following the donation of a half acre block of land, situated on a corner site, by James Austin, the brick building was commissioned and constructed by local builders Treven and Gubby. The foundation stone was laid on the 17th September 1883. The building Read more…
The original St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Portarlington – c 1873 . The congregation of the Portarlington St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church is purported to have formed as early as the 1850’s. Though the location of the church has remained unchanged, being at the corner of Fisher & Newcombe Streets in Portarlington, the first wooden building which opened in 1873 was replaced some Read more…
Though details of the evolution of Portarlington’s original St Patrick’s Catholic Church building are elusive, it would appear that the original structure was completed c 1895. It seems that a Catholic School had been running in the town since the 1860’s – rumoured to have been held in the historic ‘Calhoun’s Family Hotel‘ – and Mass may have been held there too or perhaps in a rented Read more…
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