Cathedral College, Catholic school building in East Melbourne, Australia
Cathedral College is a school building located at the intersection of Victoria Parade and Eades Street in East Melbourne that operated until 1995. The structure housed classrooms for approximately 300 students in years 5 through 10 and remains a recognizable feature of the area.
St Kevin's College occupied the Albert Street building until it moved to Toorak in 1932. Parade College then used the Victoria Parade site until its relocation to Bundoora in 1968. Cathedral College, run by the Christian Brothers, opened there in 1968 and operated until 1995. The school building was designed by William Wardell.
The St Patrick's Cathedral Choir was based at the college from 1968 until the school closed in 1995, when its choristers moved to St Kevin's College. The boys sang for cathedral liturgy while also attending classes on the Victoria Parade site. The sources record no explanation of how the school got its name.
The building is protected as a heritage site and can be viewed from the street at Victoria Parade from several angles. Visitors should know that this is a former school building no longer operating as an educational institution.
The building on Albert Street, designed by William Wardell, was the original St Kevin's College before that school moved to Toorak in 1932; it has since been converted into apartments, while part of the wider site now houses the Catholic Theological College.
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