Original post 30 March 2016:
Sitting up on the top of a hill in the outer east is the ex-Sacred Heart Croydon Monastery complex, completed 1939. Designed in a nicely stylised #romanesquerevival, in then modern #creambrick, by Lionel San Miguel, a Portuguese born Melbourne #architect, who did a number of notable buildings for the Catholics. The Chapel, with its huge deep set arch, is surrounded by the monastery, which curves around behind, with a lovely cloister, and some great terrazzo. I think the bits that look like stone are actually terracotta. In 2000, the chapel was enlarged to the rear to become the local parish church, and the monastery is probably administration now, with a primary school and aged care behind.
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