Busselton, WA - St Mary's Anglican

Year Built: 1842

Denomination: Anglican

Saint: Mary

Address: 48 Peel Terrace, Busselton, Western Australia, 6280

Architect: Unknown

Traditional Owners: Wadandi people

Last Updated: 01/08/2024

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History and Architecture:

The Church is a Victorian Romanesque style building in the Norman manner, constructed in limestone with a shingled roof. It has an auditory plan, and sanctuary, entrance porch and vestry and belltower.
The walls are constructed of local limestone and the nave is three bays long, and the bays are articulated with pilasters and round head windows with label moulds. There are stained glass windows.

The oldest consecrated stone church in WA - 1842 by the Bishop of Adelaide who was responsible for all of WA.

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
1842 - 1848	Rev John Ramsden Wollaston		1791	1856
1887 - 1889	Rev Alfred Josiah Wilkins	locum tenens 87
1887 - 1891	Rev Edward Spittlehouse Clairs		1856	1940
1891 - 1898	Rev Wesley Everingham	Temp Curate 91 - 93	1857	19912
1892 - 1892	Rev Sydney Hawthorne		1858	1928
1899 - 1900	Rev Thomas Edward Peters	locum tenens	1869	1934
1900 - 1901	Rev George Wilson		1859	1919
1901 - 1904	Rev Alfred Craven		1864	1920
1907 - 1915	Rev Harry Stafford Needham		1876	1956
1916 - 1924	Rev Sidney Alexander Milward		1880	1949
1924 - 1926	Rev Walter Henry Watson		1892	1943
1926 - 1934	Rev Charles Wetherby Ker		1879	1952
1934 - 1955	Rev Robert Ernest Davies		1896	1971
1955 - 1964	Rev James Jeffrey Tredwell		1908	1994
1967 - 1976	Rev Reginald Thomas Arrantash		1912	2004
1981 - 1985	Father Jack Thomas

Organ:

No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.

Contributions:

1. Father Jack Thomson church photos.

Source:

1. Cable Clerical Index with permission.
2. Inherit Heritage database.