Legacy
Carr was slightly over medium height and in his later years was heavily built. Tom Roberts, the artist, said he had the "typical head of a prelate". Roberts, who was not of his church, records that "speaking of the frailties and sins of people, he said he had never met a thoroughly bad man or woman... He's a man you could tell anything to-except something trumpery."
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne was his largest accomplishment, but there are many other markers to Carr’s lasting contributions, including the parish of Werribee, Victoria, which he established in 1906. In the south-western Melbourne suburb of Tarneit, Thomas Carr College is named in his honour.
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