About Lancemore Mansion Hotel

Our venue for the conference is the beautiful Lancemore Mansion Hotel set within the Werribee Park estate. The Werribee Park Mansion was built in the 1870s by the wealthy Chirnside family who were early pioneers of Australia’s livestock industry. The original 60-room Italianate mansion was designed to rival the grand houses of Europe with its bluestone façades, ornate clock tower and sweeping formal gardens. The estate once employed 55 staff to care for just five family members, a testament to the opulence of the era.

Beyond its splendour, the estate holds a lesser-known but significant chapter in its history. For decades, part of the estate served as St Joseph’s Seminary, home to Catholic students training for the priesthood, with long corridors that once surrounded with prayer and study, now holding the heart of the hotel’s heritage wing with original stained glass windows still preserved in the library. When the seminary eventually closed, this wing lay quiet for three decades before its remarkable rebirth.

In 1973, the estate passed into government hands and after extensive restoration, Werribee Park reopened in 2000 with the historic mansion preserved as a heritage site and museum, while the former seminary wing was transformed into a five-star, 91-room boutique hotel: the Lancemore Mansion Hotel Werribee Park, as it is known today.

Getting to Lancemore Mansion Hotel Werribee Park

• Follow the M1 towards Geelong and take exit 19 from M1 towards Duncans Road/C108 in Werribee South.
• At the lights, continue straight onto K Road towards Werribee Park Precinct. Follow K Road and turn right into Gate 2 of the Werribee Park Precinct/Main Drive.
• Please make sure you follow the signs to the Lancemore Mansion Hotel, not the Werribee Park Mansion.
• Follow the road along and take the second right towards the zoo. Take the next left onto the unsealed road, Escarpment Road, and follow along until you reach the Lancemore Mansion Hotel Werribee Park carpark. 
• To provide you an effortless stay, Lancemore Mansion Hotel have complimentary parking onsite and will be able to assist you with the best location to park to access your room.

Please note, it is approximately 40 minutes from Melbourne CBD, 45-minutes from Tullamarine Airport and 20 minutes from Avalon Airport.

The Pavilion 

Set on the edge of Werribee Park's historic Chirnside Polo Fields, the Pavilion is Lancemore Mansion Hotel's signature space for events, framed by open, green fairways.

With floor-to-ceiling windows running the length of the room, the Pavilion provides a 180 degree view of the field, historically making it an ideal spot to view polo games or equestrian programs in action.