Xavier College Kew, Melbourne

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According to history books this was DEFINITELY not built by anyone other than us......DEFINITELY DEFINITELY built by some clever little aussies :) smile. Not redbrick. Pretty patchy. Mudflooded into hill and to mention - this is on a hill in the middle of the suburbs just hanging out doing its thing all domed up and looking beautiful ;) This is not open to the general public. Of course!

Xavier College is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus, with its main campus located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Classes started in 1878.

The college is part of the international network of Jesuit schools begun in Messina, Sicily in 1548. Originally an all-boys school, the College now offers co-education until Year 4, and an all-boys environment from then on. In 2011, the school had 2,085 students on roll, including 76 boarders.

What is now called "The Senior Campus" is located in Barkers Road, Kew, 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the centre of Melbourne. The foundation stone of the campus was laid in 1872 and the school began formally in 1878 on land known originally as Mornane's Paddock. Founded as a Jesuit school, it was originally named St Francis Xavier's College. Construction continued during the school's early years, with the main oval added in 1883, and the West Wing and Great Hall in 1890.[10] In 1900, Xavier replaced St Patrick's College in East Melbourne as the only Catholic institution among the six Associated Public Schools at that time.[3] A Memorial Chapel on the Senior Campus was constructed in memory of Old Xaverians killed in the First World War, opening in 1934.

Memorial Chapel
An Italian Renaissance style chapel was built in 1927 to celebrate the golden jubilee of Xavier College.[citation needed] From conception to completion, construction took around sixteen years and was led by Rectors Edmund Frost and Frank O’Keefe.

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