[4] In 1956 the City of Perth agreed to sell five acres to the Diocese,[5] and in the same year the Rev Tony Pierce was appointed first warden.
Its centrepiece was the chapel designed by noted architect Julius Elischer, influenced by Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France.
[10][11] For more than a decade students from Western Australia were again sent away to study, and the Wollaston campus became in large part a retreat and conference centre for the diocese.
While the name "John Wollaston Theological College" was retained, wardens of this period were administrators sometimes engaged in retreat conducting and spiritual direction, as well as working with the deacon interns and in post-ordination training.
The design is based strongly on Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, built ten years earlier.
[14]) Like Notre Dame du Haut, the stark white interior is punctuated by deep-set windows of different coloured glass.