St John's #surfaces 52/26/3 #fp13

St John's #surfaces 52/26/3 #fp13, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

The church of St John the Baptist in Clifton Hill has many interesting surfaces. This one features one of the door surrounds. This photo is submitted by the Collingwood Historical Society for the Flickr Friday Photos challenge under the theme of "Surfaces."

St John's #surfaces 52/26/2 #fp13

St John's #surfaces 52/26/2 #fp13, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

The church of St John the Baptist in Clifton Hill has many interesting surfaces. This one features the stonework on the walls. This photo is submitted by the Collingwood Historical Society for the Flickr Friday Photos challenge under the theme of "Surfaces."

St John's #surfaces 52/26/1 #fp13

St John's #surfaces 52/26/1 #fp13, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

The church of St John the Baptist in Clifton Hill has many interesting surfaces. This one features one of the stone gate posts.  This photo is submitted by the Collingwood Historical Society for the Flickr Friday Photos challenge under the theme of "Surfaces."

Faith hope and charity mural #blogjune Day 4

Faith hope and charity mural, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

This is the full mural! The mural "Faith Hope and Charity" was created by Colleen Burke and the students of St John's Clifton Hill. You can read more about it here at colleenburke.net.au.

This blogpost has been done by the Collingwood Historical Society as part of the 2013 #blogjune challenge.

Faith and charity mural #blogjune Day 3

Faith and charity mural, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

This is the third panel of the mural on St John's Clifton Hill. It represents the students's visual representations of Faith and Charity. Part of this representation is of the nuns who for decades provided education at the school, the Sisters of Charity.

Hope 52/21/2 #fp13 #emotion #blogjune Day 2

Hope 52/21/2 #fp13 #emotion, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

This photo is the second panel of the St John's Clifton mural and represents "hope". The mural is on the Queens Parade frontage of the site on the church hall facade.

This photo is submitted by the Collingwood Historical Society for the Flickr Friday Photo challenge under the theme of "emotion". And the blogpost has been done as part of #blogjune, an annual challenge in which participants aim to blog every day of June.

Holy Spirit window detail 52/19/1

Holy Spirit window detail 52/19/1, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

This photograph is submitted by the Collingwood Historical Society as part of the Flickr Friday Photos 2012 challenge under the theme of windows.

The window is a detail of one of a number of similar windows on the Queens Parade frontage of former St John's Hall on the corner of Wellington Street. Its exact location is clearly identified by the image in the photograph of the former National Bank building on the opposite corner in North Fitzroy.

The foundation stone for the St John's Catholic Parish Hall was laid by Archbishop Daniel Mannix on 2 September 1917. It replaced four shops which had been between the school and the corner and was opened on 18 April 1918 by the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Caltaneo.

That same year yhe premises started life as an early silent movie theatre operated by Robert McLeish who also operated the Northcote, the Austral in Johnston Street Collingwood and the Rivoli in Camberwell. The Clifton cinema was also operated by Hoyts, World Film Distributors and Cinema Italia over the years until it finally closed as a cinema in 1983. After that time it also operated as the Clifton Dance Studio but the hall section of the building was demolished in 1999 and the space was used to provide extra space including a playground for the school.

St John's on Holy Saturday 52/15/2

St John's on Holy Saturday 52/15/2, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.

This photo is part of the Collingwood Historical Society contribution to the Flickr Friday Photo 2012 challenge under the theme of Easter.

You would have been hard pressed to discover the time of Easter services at the church of St John the Baptist in Clifton Hill - or any sign of Easter really. Presumably they would have been the same at the normal 6pm Saturday Vigil mass as a later dialogue on Twitter indicated.