St Colman's, Carlisle Street, Balaclava

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Born in 1864 and passed in 1963 Dr Mannix was one Australia’s longest serving Archibishops of over 40 years.

According to website Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Mannix’s service to he diocesan faithful increased from 150,000 to 600,000; churches from 160 to 300; students in Catholic primary schools from 21,792 to 73,695; secondary pupils from 3126 to 28,395; priests increased by 237, brothers by 181, nuns by 736; 10 new male and 14 female orders were introduced; 10 seminaries and 7 new hospitals, 3 orphanages, homes for delinquents, the blind and deaf, hostels for girls – which amounts to scores of plaques and masses of hand carved stone lettering.

This modest design allows the stiff yet playful letterforms jump out of this slab of uncompromising stone.