From MSC Chapel to Sacred Heart Parish Church, Croydon.

With thanks to Clive Mc Arthur for sending these photos taken during the building of the Church in 2000.

The last MSC students at Croydon moved at the beginning of 1986 to Drummoyne, Navarre House. The Monastery was sold to the Archdiocese of Melbourne in 1991.

The parish church of St Edmund’s in Hewish Rd gave way to the new parish centre at the Monastery. The primary school opened on the Murray Rd side of the building leading to the cemetery.

At the end of the 1990s, the decision was made to knock down the chapel apse and extend the building into the courtyard – which worked well for both church and courtyard.

Bob Irwin was provincial at the time and sent this photo and the note: the builders of the church: Peter McArthur, from Murray Rd , opposite the monastery…good friend to me and a number of ex scholastics.. I believe their initials are scratched onto the back of the plaque.