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            Napoleon's prison island of St Helena was transferred from East India Company governance to British crown rule in 1834, a year before Europeans founded the settlement that was to become Melbourne, in the Port Phillip district of then New South Wales. 

One Major Anthony Beale, who had been born on the island in 1790, retired from his EIC paymaster job and he and his family went first to England, surviving on a pension. However, in 1839 Anthony and his wife Katherine Rose took most of their very large brood to live and ultimately farm in the Port Phillip district (losing their eldest son to a drowning in Van Diemen's Land just before the last leg of the journey). They built a cottage and called it St Helena. By all accounts their life was content until Katherine died in 1856, after which Anthony built "Rose Chapel" in her honour. He spent more and more hours brooding in it and left behind a written record of depression. After his death in 1865, a son-in-law oversaw the conversion of the chapel into an Anglican parish church, St Katherine's.

The building strikes me as having elegant simplicity, within its conventions, and pleasing proportions. It was destroyed in a bush fire in 1957, but was reconstructed from surviving architectural drawings. Photographs show that the original exterior walls were of more traditional bricks, which had been hand made on site. The church and cemetery are still in use today, in St Helena, originally farming hinterland, but now engulfed as a sort of "sub suburb" of Melbourne.

NB I’m not a historian. The above is my paraphrase of what I have read since visiting the site. Throughout the entire imprisonment, and therefore also at the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, Anthony Beale would himself still have been living on the island of St Helena...

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / St Helena (show map)

Taken on: April 21, 2022

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