"Nazareth House" Orphanage, Hospice and Convent, Mill Street - Ballarat

            "Nazareth House" was founded in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat in 1888 by Bishop Moore as an orphanage and a home for the  impoverished elderly under the supervision of the Sisters of Nazareth, who also used "Nazareth House" as a convent.  

In response to a commission, in 1889 architects Tappin, Gilbert and Dennehy produced plans for a splendid red brick "Nazareth House" building to replace the order's existing quarters.   Constructed in 1891, "Nazareth House" is a three-storey Victorian Academic Gothic edifice of red brick with stone detailing punctuated by two towers and a central gable marking the entrance.  The building is flanked by two wings ending in gables that match the central section. The ground floor arched windows are arranged regularly in the upper two levels.  Above the roof line the towers have paired occuli below a cornice line.  Above the cornice is a pair of elongated openings with pointed arch heads below another cornice line that corbels out to the steep slate roof capped with a cast iron finial.  In 1902, Reed, Smart and Tappin designed a brick chapel for "Nazareth House", built sympathetically in Academic Gothic style.

Gothic architecture was perceived by the pious Victorians as an expression of religious, and therefore, moral values.  Its revival was thus seen as virtuous and equated with moral revival.  For this reason an ecclesiastical character was predominant.  Therefore, Victorian Academic Gothic style would have been the only style suitable for "Nazareth House" to be built in.

The Sisters of Nazareth is a Catholic religious order of nuns.  The Sisters of Nazareth began in 1851, when Victoire Larmenier, a young sister in Rennes, France was sent to England.  In October six years later, she founded the first Nazareth House, in Hammersmith, London.  Since then the Sisters of Nazareth congregation has grown and expanded throughout the world.  Originally caring for poor and infirm children, the Sisters of Nazareth turned their efforts to include the impoverished elderly.  Today there are thirty-seven "Nazareth Houses" worldwide, and they continue to care for orphans and the elderly.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Ballarat / Ballarat Central (show map)

Taken on: January 14, 2013

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