St Mary’s Restoration
Since the laying of the church’s foundation stone in 1882, St Mary Star of the Sea has been a place of worship, inspiration and spiritual comfort for many thousands of people. St Mary’s is one of the most beautiful buildings in Australia and Melbourne’s largest parish church. St Mary’s is an historically significant church, home to Archbishops Daniel Mannix and Justin Simonds when each was coadjutor, and it remains an important landmark in the City of Melbourne. In recent years St Mary’s has been rejuvenated, becoming a cultural centre for sacred art and music, whose doors are open...
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In 2008, Mustard Media produced a 20 minute video documenting the interior and exterior restorations of St Mary Star of the Sea. The film includes interviews with Thomas Hazell, AO (Restoration Co-ordinator), Paul Smith (Co-director of Millstone Stone) and Fr Max Polak PP (Parish Priest of West...
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To date, the Restoration Appeal has funded the following: restoration of almost 50% of exterior stonework; repairs to roofs; electrical repairs and total rewiring essential plumbing works; restoration of all painted surfaces in church interior, including reinstatement of the elaborate 19th-century stencil patterns on apse and chapel walls; restoration of the high altar and seven lesser altars; restoration of all brass and gilded fittings in the church; restoration of all timber surfaces and furnishings; restoration of timber floors and reinstatement of tessellated tiled...
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