A Potted History
A Not So Respectable Church in a Very Respectable City
As the title of this potted history of St Peter's suggests, the story of this church could be described as a story of contradictions. One of the themes that can be detected running though its history is a kind of nonconformity, sometimes discreetly veiled and not obvious, at other times quite obvious and deliberate.
Colin Holden June 2000
This is a revised form of text for exhibition catalogue, A Not so Respectable Church in a Very Respectable City, to accompany the exhibition of the same name at The Old Treasury Building, Melbourne, October-November 1996, marking the 150th anniversary of the church.
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