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Architectural History<\/span><\/h2>\n

Moran House (formerly St\u00a0Patrick\u2019s College and Seminary)<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Winning worldwide acclaim, St\u00a0Patrick\u2019s College was designed as a blend of Neo-gothic and Romanesque styles by well known 19th Century architects, Sheerin and Hennessy.\u00a0 It was built by WH Jennings between 1885 and 1889. \u00a0The stone building is four storeys high with a six level central bell tower and a slate roof. \u00a0A two storeyed colonnade flanks the central entrance. \u00a0The building was designed with modern plumbing and a service lift. \u00a0Moran House illustrates an architectural initiative designed to stand the test of time, using simple planning methods and good materials including stone quarried from North Head, finer stone sent by barge from Pyrmont, along with slate, selected Cedar and Jarrah timbers, marble and leaded glazing.<\/p>\n

The entrance vestibule and \u2018cloisters\u2019 with cedar and kauri pine ceilings, stained glass windows and marble tiled floor lead to a monumental stone staircase.<\/p>\n

The library (former chapel), refectory, aula maxima, lecture rooms and private oratory on the ground and first floors are impressive in scale and detailing and designed to form a sequence of grand interiors, some with large interconnecting doors.\u00a0 The second and third floors provided accommodation for the seminarians.<\/p>\n

The College use of this building ended in 1995. \u00a0Major conservation works to Moran House were completed in 1996. \u00a0The building is now leased and occupied by the International College of Management, Sydney (ICMS).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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Archbishop\u2019s Residence<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The historic Archbishop\u2019s Residence was built in 1885 and was the first structure completed on the site. \u00a0It is a good example of the domestic Gothic Revival style designed by Sheerin and Hennessy Architects.\u00a0 While its Gothic detailing can be held to be in the tradition established by architect AW Pugin (1812-1852) in England, the cast iron verandahs are a 19th century response to the colonial climate.\u00a0 Other elements such as the central fl\u00e8che and convenient planning foreshadowed Edwardian architectural trends. \u00a0The cast iron panels of the verandahs contain Cardinal Moran’s initials and their detailing reflects the later 19th century ‘Aesthetic Movement’. \u00a0Two terracotta statues of saints dominate the bays of the main elevation. \u00a0The building is two storeys of stone with a slate roof. \u00a0It was built by William Farley for 10,000 pounds.<\/p>\n

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Over time verandahs have been infilled and the stable block altered, but the original fabric remains generally intact.<\/p>\n

The landscape setting comprises chiefly cast iron gates with stone piers to Darley Road, the driveway, a carriage loop and a vista to the harbour and related plantings to all the above.<\/p>\n

In 2004 conservation and adaptation works were undertaken to the Archbishop\u2019s Residence to convert the existing residence to an educational facility as part of the adjacent St Paul\u2019s Catholic College.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Curiously it was not until 1935, over twenty years after Cardinal Moran’s death in 1911, that the Cardinal Cerretti memorial Chapel was built.<\/p>\n

In 1935 the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel was opened adjacent to and in architectural harmony with the main building, enhancing and enriching the total atmosphere and impressive power of the site. \u00a0Despite (or rather in addition to) the Roman, Vatican, implications of the name, the Cerretti Chapel was another affirmation of its Australian roots. \u00a0Cardinal Cerretti had come to Australia in 1915 as the first Apostolic Delegate, diplomatic representative of the Papacy in Australia.\u00a0 Cardinal Cerretti delighted a St\u00a0Patrick\u2019s College prize giving ceremony in 1916 by proclaiming ‘Australia for the Australians’.<\/p>\n

The Chapel was built to complement St Patrick\u2019s College in architectural style, materials and detail.\u00a0 It has a column-free nave and features fine marble altars, silky Oak joinery and stained glass windows.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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St Therese\u2019s Convent<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The Convent was designed by Ernest A Scott of Green & Scott Architects to provide accommodation for the Order of Our Lady Help of Christians. \u00a0Built in 1934, it is two storeys high with rendered walls and stone trims. Its main elevation is accented by a copper turret denoting the Chapel and a major archway framing the outlook from a verandah. \u00a0The verandah was originally glassed in. \u00a0The Chapel was originally a two storeyed space with a vaulted ceiling behind the eastern bay and several small stained glass windows. \u00a0The building is considered a well resolved domestic Edwardian dwelling.<\/p>\n

The Convent was linked to the College by a concrete pedestrian bridge. \u00a0The residential addition, designed by Sydney G Hirst and Kennedy Architects and constructed in 1962, does not complement the original Convent.<\/p>\n

In 2004 conservation and adaptation works were undertaken to St\u00a0Therese\u2019s Convent to convert it to offices and meeting rooms as part of the now leased space to the International College of Management, Sydney (ICMS).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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Kelly House<\/span><\/h3>\n

The next building on the site in 1954 was a response to overcrowding and to cope with increasing student numbers.\u00a0 Kelly House was opened in the year in which St\u00a0Patrick\u2019s College Graduates reached a total of 1,000 since its foundation.\u00a0 It was named after Archbishop Michael Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney from 1911 to 1940.<\/p>\n

It was functional, utilitarian, providing the structures to meet the necessary religious services under the stress of severely limited financial resources. \u00a0The post war explosion of demand for churches and schools for a rapidly increasing Catholic population stretched financial and human \u00a0resources to their limits. \u00a0In this context, \u00a0housing increasing numbers of trainee priests was a matter of providing bricks and mortar, not of architectural magnificence.\u00a0 It was not a time, nor was Cardinal Gilroy of a mind, for anything beyond basics. \u00a0It was enough that Kelly House be adjacent to the main building, rather than integral to it.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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St Paul\u2019s Catholic College<\/span><\/h3>\n

St\u00a0Paul’s Catholic College complex was built over a period of ten years from 1964 to 1974, officially opened on 8 August 1965. \u00a0The buildings are concrete framed with face brick infill panels providing classrooms and staff and student amenities.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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Gilroy House (now demolished)<\/span><\/h3>\n

Gilroy House, named after Cardinal Gilroy, was designed by Jenkins and Maclurcan Architects and built close to the Archbishop\u2019s Residence.\u00a0 It was opened in 1961. \u00a0Although not evident at the time, it signified\u00a0 the beginning of a change of function and direction on the Manly site.\u00a0 Diversity and new demands had arrived.\u00a0 The 1970s saw the College liberalised internally and soon opened to a wider studentship – the laity (both men and women) and to Christians of other denominations.\u00a0 In 2002 approximately 200 theological students were undertaking courses at the College and women held significant staff positions.<\/p>\n

It was entirely appropriate that a Manly building be named after Cardinal Norman Thomas Gilroy;\u00a0 Australian born, returned from \u00a0Gallipoli in 1915, trained as a priest at Manly and in Rome, successor to Archbishop Michael Kelly as Archbishop of Sydney in 1940, the first Australian born Cardinal, presiding over an era of demands and expansion, Cardinal Gilroy was a prominent figure of his time.<\/p>\n

Gilroy House and the St\u00a0Paul’s College complex (that followed in 1964-74) were comfortable, functional developments placed on available ground for practical religious purposes.\u00a0 Gilroy House contained three chapels and three sacristies.\u00a0 It was a single\/double storey concrete and steel framed building around a central open courtyard with face brickwork and steel deck roofing.\u00a0 It was demolished in 2004.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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Cardinal Freeman Pastoral Centre<\/span><\/h3>\n

This single storey building of rusticated coursed sandstone with a slate roof and bullnosed corrugated iron verandah was built in 1910 to provide a gymnasium and two billiard rooms for the seminarians. \u00a0It is a simple building of the \u2018Federation’ architectural style. \u00a0The building was altered in the 1970s to accommodate teaching areas and a workshop.<\/p>\n

In 1995 the Pastoral Centre was adapted into a covered courtyard and caf\u00e9 to provide student facilities for the International College of Sydney.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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Heritage Walls<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Prior to the transfer, the Church grounds had been bounded by a ‘high galvanised iron and barbed wire fence’. \u00a0By the 1900s, a stone wall had been constructed along the new south eastern boundary.<\/p>\n

A strip of land 66 feet wide through the grounds was dedicated for the extension of Darley Road in 1879 and its use as a public road was declared by proclamation in the Government Gazette on 22\u00a0October 1887. \u00a0Construction of the road was not undertaken, however, until World\u00a0War\u00a0I. \u00a0In return for the land lost, the Army – which used St\u00a0Patrick\u2019s tower for military observations during the war – built the stone walls which still flank Darley Road.\u00a0 The walls may have been built in stages between 1914 and 1932.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>

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Historic Landscape Access Routes<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The location of the main buildings formed the focus for the initial landscaping and layout of the grounds.\u00a0 While there have been some modifications to the access arrangements, the principal elements remain:<\/p>\n