A Gothic Vision: the Architectural Patronage of Bishop James Goold in Colonial Victoria

Twenty years after the creation of the Roman Catholic diocese of Melbourne, which encompassed the whole of modern-day Victoria, a local reporter claimed: “There is no place where it is harder to believe Melbourne but twenty-five years old than in St. Patrick’s Church. The scene presented there on Wednesday made one feel as if suddenly transported to where antique cathedral towers are flinging their long shadows on the winding Rhine” (fig. 1). St..