page_title: St Bartholomew's Church, Burnley
section_title: Second church building
hierarchical_section_title: St Bartholomew's Church, Burnley / Original buildings / Second church building
caption_attribution_description: St Bartholomew's Church, Burnley, Melbourne in 1910. Design by Thomas Watts &amp; Sons.
context_page_description: St Bartholomew's Church, Burnley, is the Anglican parish church of the small suburb of Burnley, historically considered part of Richmond, in inner-suburban Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Known colloquially as "St Bart's", the parish is in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne and is well known as belonging to the Anglo-Catholic or High Church tradition. Its congregation is active in various ministries around Richmond and beyond. It has an opportunity shop which operates out of the parish hall.
context_section_description: The new brick church building was designed by the well-known Melbourne architectural firm of Thomas Watts and Sons. A founder of the Victorian Institute of Architecture, Thomas Watts had been responsible for some lavish Victorian-era mansions in Melbourne's inner suburbs and was soon to direct the relocation of St James' Old Cathedral to its present site in West Melbourne. Watts' design for the new St Bartholomew's Church, in the Arts and Crafts movement style, included an entrance porch facing Swan Street and a tower with an octagonal spire at the north-west corner. The foundation stone was laid in July 1910 and the new church building was dedicated and opened December the same year. The original wooden building remained in use as the parish hall.
caption: St Bartholomew's Church, Burnley in 1910. Designed by the Melbourne architectural firm of Thomas Watts and Sons, the building was demolished in 1925 and many materials reused in the new church building on the relocated parish land.
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