It is located at 1 View Mount Road, in Glen Waverley, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The site was built from 1954 – 59[1] as the main campus of Corpus Christi College, a seminary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, from 1959–1972.

Additional buildings for instruction and student accommodation, sports facilities and a gymnasium and indoor swimming pool, were erected in the 1980s, and a mock village was added later for scenario training purposes.

[4] The former Corpus Christi Chapel was built as a Basilica to model for seminarians the orders of Christian worship, and has 14 side altars in the cloister for rehearsal of sacraments.

The architecture is a blend of the form of a Byzantine Basilica with a Renaissance ceiling and Romanesque Revival arches and exterior flying buttresses.

The cross was constructed by retired Senior Sargeant Norm Lieschke from Queensland maple that was donated by the Police Association.