St. Pauls Church, Intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets, C. 1885.
This engraving from the Australian Illustrated News (7th November 1885) shows The old St Paul's church during demolition. Wood engraving by F. A. Sleap after a drawing by George Rossi Ashton.
Article from 1885:
With the removal of th St. Paul's Church Swanston Street, disapears one of the old landmarks of Melbourne. For nearly a quarter of a century it served all the purposes of its founders, but with the march of improvement, the expansion of the poulation... it has had to give way for a mor spacious and imposing structure the new Protestant Cathedral...