Haileybury Chapel, Melbourne
| Haileybury Chapel, Melbourne | |
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An interior view of Haileybury Chapel, Melbourne, looking to the sanctuary.
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| Location | Haileybury College and Haileybury Girls' College, Keysborough campus in south-eastern Melbourne |
| Geographic coordinates | 37°59′40″S 145°08′41″E / 37.994567°S 145.144654°ECoordinates: 37°59′40″S 145°08′41″E / 37.994567°S 145.144654°E |
| Affiliation | Uniting Church of Australia |
| State | Victoria |
| Country | Australia |
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| Architectural style | loosely on the Sydney School |
| Completed | 1987 |
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| Direction of façade | East |
| Materials | Brick, timber and glass |
The Haileybury Chapel, Melbourne is the chapel of Haileybury College and Haileybury Girls' College, located at the College's Keysborough campus in south-eastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The chapel is located on the eastern side of Springvale Road, just south of the intersection with Cheltenham Road, in Keysborough.
Architecturally and artistically the Haileybury Chapel is one of the finest and most distinctive Australasian sacred buildings from the last quarter of the 20th century.
Designed by the noted Australian architect Philip Cox, the Haileybury Chapel features extensive artwork, including over fifty stained glass mosaic windows by the celebrated Australian artist Leonard French. The chapel is also noted for its fine acoustic, which is especially suited to musical performance.
The chapel was officially opened by the Governor of Victoria, His Excellency Davis McCaughey, on 18 October 1987. The Chapel was named the David Bradshaw Chapel on 13 August 2000, after David M. Bradshaw, the Headmaster of Haileybury from 1954 to 1973.
The Haileybury Chapel was designed by Philip Cox, a leading Australian architect. At the time of completing the project, Cox wrote:
"There are moments in everybody's life when contemplation can take place. This may be in the form of a prescribed service with people or it may be a solitary experience. Generally it takes place within an architectural setting. In both cases the architectural space can remove the individual from the trials and tribulations of everyday life and give opportunity to dwell on aspects of philosophy - ecclesiastical or secular. Such a space must respond to the celebration of life and mankind's endeavours, which include the visual arts, architecture, painting, sculpture, stained glass and craft, or the audio arts such as instrumental music, speech, song or symphony as well as producing opportunities for the performing arts of theatre and ceremony.
The vocabulary of the building is in humble brick and timber and glass. However, wherever you look you will see the exuberance of the mason, the carpenter or the artist in his contribution to the art of life.
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