Abbotsford Convent
The Abbotsford Convent is located in Abbotsford, Victoria, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Convent is in a bend of the Yarra River west of Yarra Bend Park, with the Collingwood Children's Farm to its north and east, the river and parklands to its south and housing to its west.Photo: Redtree21, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Commerce
- Description: former Roman Catholic convent in Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Convent of the Good Shepherd”
- Address: 1-5 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford, VIC 3067
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sophia Mundi Steiner School and Johnston Street Bridge.
Sophia Mundi Steiner School
School
Sophia Mundi Steiner School is a private school located in Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, that follows Rudolf Steiner's educational philosophy. Schools which follow Rudolf Steiner's theories are known as Steiner schools, or Waldorf schools. Sophia Mundi Steiner School is situated 120 metres southeast of Abbotsford Convent.
Johnston Street Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge crossing the Yarra River between the Melbourne suburbs of Abbotsford and Kew. The current bridge was constructed in 1954-56 by the Country Roads Board using a design employing cast-in-place reinforced-concrete curved T girders and an integral flat slab deck. Johnston Street Bridge is situated 250 metres north of Abbotsford Convent.
Dights Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Michaelschmatz, Public domain.
Dights Falls is a rapid and weir on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000-year-old volcanic, basaltic lava flow and a much older steep, silurian, sedimentary spur. Dights Falls is situated 690 metres north of Abbotsford Convent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inner east and Jolimont.
Inner east
Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
The inner east of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy Stonnington on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.
Jolimont
Neighborhood
Jolimont is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, Jolimont features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation.
Westgarth
Neighborhood
Photo: Batterbu, Public domain.
Westgarth is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Northcote, about 4 or 5 kilometres north-east of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria, Australia. Westgarth is situated 2½ km north of Abbotsford Convent.
Abbotsford Convent
- Categories: artist collective and convent
- Location: City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.803° or 37° 48′ 11″ southLongitude
145.00375° or 145° 0′ 14″ eastOperator
Abbotsford Convent FoundationOpen location code
4RJ752W3+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 666244249OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=commercialOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q4664302
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Abbotsford Convent” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “亞伯特斯堡女修道院”
- French: “couvent d’Abbotsford”
- French: “Couvent d’Abbotsford”
- German: “Abbotsford Convent”
- Japanese: “アボッツフォード・コンベント”
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