Jaynie Anderson - The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and His Legacies in Colonial Melbourne

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The Architecture of Devotion

JAMES GOOLD AND HIS LEGACIES IN COLONIAL MELBOURNE

EDITED BY

JAYNIE ANDERSON

MAX VODOLA AND

SHANE CARMODY

THE MIEGUNYAH PRESS

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First published 2021

Text individual contributors, 2021

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Artists impression of WW Wardells design for the spire of St Ignatius Church, Richmond, 1891

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collection: St Ignatius Church,Richmond

This book is the product of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project. We would like to thank the ARC, the University of Melbourne and the University of Divinity for their support. The publishing of the book was made possible through the generosity of Maria Myers AC and Allan Myers AC, together with a grant from the Natalie Mary OSullevan Trust. We are very grateful for this assistance, which has ensured a book of the highest quality.

The essays herein began as papers at a symposium held in February 2020. We would like to express our thanks to the Rector of Newman College, Father Frank Brennan SJ, AO, and the Provost of Newman College, Mr Sean Burke, for hosting the first day of the symposium. We would also like to thank the Australian Institute of Art History for its assistance with the symposium.

Throughout this project we have enjoyed the support of a talented team of scholars and experts. Dr Callum Reid has assisted with research; Helen Gill has provided excellent analysis of the paintings that belonged to Goold; Kerrie Burn, Nick Gellatly and Huw Sandaver at Mannix Library have been critical in identifying books from Goolds library and have created a very fitting new home for them. Huw Sandaver has also ensured wide access to much of Goolds collection through imaginative use of digital platforms. Dr Paola Colleoni, as the holder of the ARC PhD Scholarship, has generously shared her knowledge of Goolds most famous architect, William Wilkinson Wardell.

The Archdiocese of Melbourne and many religious orders and congregations have been very helpful. We would like to record our thanks to: Most Rev. Peter A. Commensoli, Archbishop of Melbourne; Most Rev. Denis Hart, Emeritus Archbishop of Melbourne; Very Rev. Werner Utri, Dean of St Patricks Cathedral; Dr Donna Bailey, Diocesan Archivist and Professional Standards Office, Catholic Diocese of Sandhurst, Bendigo; Dr J. Ben Boonen, Archivist, Christian Brothers, Melbourne; Imogen Kennard-King, Collections Registrar, Sisters of Charity Congregational Archives; Father James Clarke, Parish of St Mary of the Angels, Geelong; Father Denis Stanley, Rector of Corpus Christi Seminary; Father Michael Head SJ, Archivist for the Australian Jesuit Province; Damien Burke, Irish Jesuit Archives; Sr Angela Bayliss NDS, Archivist for the Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion; and Fr Huy Viet Nguyen SJ, former Parish Priest of St Ignatius Richmond.

All the authors together acknowledge their debt to Belinda Nemec for her skilful editing of the text, and to Cathryn Smith at Melbourne University Press for her thoughtful management of the project.

With this project complete, James Alipius Goold can now been seen in a new light. We did not begin that re-evaluation; that credit properly belongs to the late Father John Rogan. Johns legacy and indeed much of the legacy of Goold has been preserved, recorded and made accessible through the tireless work of the Archdiocesan Archivist, Rachel Naughton. Without Rachel, the research project, this book and its companion volume, The Invention ofMelbourne: A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect (MUP, 2019), would not have been possible. It is with gratitude and deep respect that we dedicate this book to her.

Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody