Beechworth, VIC - St Andrew's Uniting

Year Built: 1857

Denomination: Uniting

Saint: Andrew

Address: Corner Ford & Williams Streets, Beechworth, Victoria, 3747

Previous Denomination: Presbyterian

Architect: Thomas Turnbull

Architectural Style: Gothic Revival

Traditional Owners: Min-jan-buttu people

Last Updated: 04/03/2024

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History and Architecture:

St Andrew's Church was built by the Scottish and Ulster Presbyterians who settled in north-east Victoria in the mid-nineteenth century. The church is a five-bay Gothic Revival design of cement stucco, built in 1857.

The dimensions of the building were 65ft x 37ft and seated to hold 400 Odrsons. The buildling was erected at a cost of £2500. The site of the Church is the gift of the Government. The Rev. John Grant, officiating clergyman Thomas Turnbull, 'architect; Smith, Banks and Cranston, builders; Jothn Dorman, Thomas Dalziel, J. K. Brown, Alexander Rogers. Robert Craig.

It was designed by local architect Thomas Turnbull and built by Smith, Bank and Cranston. The building comprises an unusual square tower, pinnacles and spire; matching panel-backed buttresses; lancet windows with label mouldings; and intersecting arch window tracery. It includes an exposed brick Sunday school that was added to the rear of the church in 1883.

The tower has pairs of tiered buttresses in each corner which are surmounted by pinnacles.

Clergy:

This list may not contain every serving cleric, past or present, for this church.
Further submissions welcomed.

Years	Name	Annotation	D.o.B	D.o.D
1857 - 1858	Rev John Grant	P
1859 - 1868	Rev J. K. McMillan	P
1868 - 1872	Rev George Ah Liu	Catechist
1869 - 1873	Rev George Graham	P
1874 -	Rev Robert K. Ewing	P
1877 - 1882	Rev John Ah Wai	Catechist
1878 - 1884	Rev J. Gordon Mackie	P
1883 - 1885	Rev Paul Young	Catechist
1885 - 1892	Rev Henry Swan	P
1885 - 1892	Rev Peter How	Catechist
1892 - 1902	Rev James Quong Cheong	Catechist
1893 - 1901	Rev W. H. Cooper	P
1902 - 1906	Rev J. R. Anderson	P
1902 - 1903	Rev James Chue	Catechist
1903 - 1908	Rev Paul Chin	Catechist
1907 - 1923	Rev Robert B. McLeod	P
1908 - 1936	Rev George Young	Catechist
1924 - 1927	Rev Arthur Wall	P
1928 - 1932	Rev Thomas Darby	P
1932 - 1935	Rev H. Lyons	P
1935 - 1937	Rev G. McGregor	P
1937 - 1939	Rev C. W.T. Headen	P	1887	1945
1940 - 1944	Rev F. H. Patterson	P
1945 - 1948	Rev W. H. Elliott	P
1949 - 1950	Rev Lewis Clayton	P		1950
1951 - 1956	Rev John Colvin	P
1956 -	Rev Rhyce W. Price	P
2010 -	Ms Caroline Field	U

Organ:

No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.

Source:

1. Beechworth Presbyterian Church One Hundred Years On. H285.2 MAR by J Stanley Martin
2. Ryerson Index.