William Wardell
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William Wilkinson Wardell was a noted architect who practiced in the second half of the 19th century, and is best known for a series of landmark buildings in Australia in Melbourne and Sydney.
Doorway detail of Our Immaculate Lady of Victories, Clapham.
Our Ladye Star of the Sea, Greenwich
St Mary's Catholic Church. 208-214 Dandenong Road, St Kilda East.
St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.
St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
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The Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia, locally known as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic basilica and the seat of the
William Wardell
…Wardell emigrated to the Colony of Victoria in 1858. He then designed the Catholic cathedrals in both the major cities, St Patrick's in Melbourne and St Mary's in Sydney, as well as St John's College, at the University of Sydney, and numerous parish churches in Victoria. His Gothic Revival church designs have…
St Mary's Cathedral at night
The first St Mary's, Hyde Park, 1840s
The first St Mary's Cathedral expanded to the designs of Augustus Pugin, in the early 1860s
Construction of St. Mary's Cathedral in the 1920s.