Basilica Our Lady of Victories Camberwell

Our Lady of Victories Basilica is a

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church located in the

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suburb of

Camberwell Camberwell () is a district of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast of Charing Cross. Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant. This e ...

. Romanesque in style, it was designed by architect

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Dimech, A.:
Our Lady of Victories Basilica
'. URL last accessed 2008-04-25. (1866 – 1933)City of Boroondara:
Church of the Immaculate Conception
'', 24 November 2005. URL last accessed 2008-04-05. and was completed in 1918. It is one of five churches in Australia with

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status. The current parish priest is Rev. Brendan Reed. Our Lady of Victories occupies an imposing site in

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and, in a city where most churches of the era are built in the

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style, has a distinctive copper clad dome completed with a golden statue of the

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Basilica churches in Australia Roman Catholic churches in Victoria (state) Roman Catholic churches in Melbourne Roman Catholic churches completed in 1918 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Australia 1918 establishments in Australia Buildings and structures in the City of Boroondara {{VictoriaAU-struct-stub