Sunbury Village Green (1972) …

was created when Stawell Street was closed to traffic for the Sunbury Architects Convention in 1972. That section of Stawell street was never reopened. Stawell Street originally provided a link between the early settlement of Sunbury and the commercial precinct that blossomed with the opening of the railway in 1859.

The area includes the original churches of St. Mary’s (1867) and St. Andrew’s (1870 – weatherboard, 1904 – brick), the old Mechanics Institute (1885) – now the Memorial Hall, the War Memorial, the Starkie Fountain Memorial and the Sunbury Gun (1864) which belonged to the Rupertswood Battery.