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Horsfall Chapel
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Uploaded by Adamm Ferrier from the Canterbury Fellowship website. The photograph was taken by Stuart Tennant who has granted permission for its use. (Apologies to those who insist that the correct term is "Bulpadock": when I saved this file some years ago now I was influenced by the original bovine inhabitants of this paddock: bulpadock being a contraction of bull's paddock.)
Nevertheless, the Chapel itself is a remarkably beautiful building designed by Tasmanian architect Alexander North, who also responsible for the parish hall at nearby St Peter's Eastern Hill. The rounded "turrets" occur in both buildings; but the parish hall predates the chapel and are not quite so prominent.
Local legend has it that the College allowed the building to become covered in creeper to disguide its "red brick" appearance, at variance with the rest of the college buildings. It was "discovered" by Sir John Betjeman who was most enthusiastic and described the Chapel in glowing terms: the creeper was removed forthwith.
I'm unaware of any other church or chapel in Melbourne that has an internal bridge, although surely there must be a couple in Australia.
There have been three organs to date within the chapel. The most recent dates from 1998 by Kenneth Jones of Dublin, which is centrally mounted on the bridge, as was the original organ. The second organ had a split casing on either end of the bridge, which permitted a full view from the sanctuary of the glorious western windows.
Dr Caroline Miley has written a remarkable history of the chapel Trinity College Chapel: an appreciation.
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