Milawa, VIC - St Paul's Anglican

Year Built: 1873

Denomination: Anglican

Saint: Paul

Address: Snow Road, Milawa, Victoria, 3678

Architect: Unknown

Last Updated: 26/02/2023

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History and Architecture:

The church plan, was suggested by Archdeacon Tucker three years before its erection and was prepared by Mr. George Heathcote of Wangaratta, who supervised the erection. Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Shea were the contractors. The furniture was made by Mr. J. Roberts of Little Collins St. Melbourne.

Building costs amounted to more than £2000. The land was donated by Mr. Goodyear. Before the building of the church, local Anglicans worshipped in a local shed.

The Revd. Charles May Yelland, curate of Wangaratta, was appointed to St. Paul's Oxley Plains (Milawa) in June 1873, and in October of that year, five hundred people attended a tea meeting when he was given charge of the churches at Moyhu and Whorouly as well.

A plaque on the wall of the Church reads, “The church of St Paul first opened in 1873 and restored in 1973. It was extensively damaged in a storm which struck the township on 14^th January 1977. It was rebuilt by the enterprise and skill of Leonard William Hooper and many others. With the help of gifts from many parts of Australia, and was again set apart for the worship of God by Maxwell McNee Thomas Th. the 6^th Bishop of Wangaratta on 8^th October 1979”.

A plaque on an entrance gate pillar reads, A. M. D. G. The Lych Gate of St Paul's, Milawa was erected in the memory of the Pioneers of this church and dedicated by The Bishop of Wangaratta on Sunday 14th March, 1954.

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
1873 -	Rev Charles May Yelland
1880 - 1882	Rev William George Hindley	Deacon	1853	1936
1884 -	Rev Alfred Charles Kellaway	Lay Reader	1856	1930
1886 -	Rev Andrew Patrick McFarlane	Lay Reader	1855	1931
1888 -	Rev John William Griffiths	Reader	1865	1941
1888 -	Rev John Gilmour Swan	Lay Reader	1867	1956
1895 - 1895	Rev Henry Ernest Mallet	Deacon	1865	1945
1897 - 1900	Rev Henry Ernest Mallet		1865	1945
1903 - 1910	Rev George Edwin Lamble		1877	1939
1907 -	Rev James William Percy Oates	Deacon	1879	1962
1907 - 1910	Rev Harold Robert Nixon	Curate	1861	1933
1910 - 1912	Rev James Arthur Peck		1873	1944
1913 -	Rev Vernon Harold Jenkyn	Deacon
1913 -	Rev David Sherris	Deacon	1883	1968
1914 - 1915	Rev James Eakins Stannage	Curate	1887	1968
1916 - 1924	Rev Arthur Reginald Mace		1885	1965
1917 - 1919	Rev Leonard William Slade	Curate	1894	1941
1923 - 1924	Rev Edward Henry Pickford	Curate	1888	1975
1924 - 1926	Rev Philip Barclay Hayman		1892	1949
1926 - 1928	Rev James Henry Ikin	Curate	1898	1931
1926 - 1929	Rev Raymond Mansfield Harry Hudson		1899	1999
1928 -	Rev Reginald Frederick Ranwell	Deacon	1904	1986
1929 - 1930	Rev William Eric McIver		1899	1973
1929 - 1934	Rev Rupert North		1890	1960
1931 - 1933	Rev Frederic Reeves	Curate	1897	1976
1933 -	Rev Frank Kellow	Deacon	1906	1979
1934 - 1935	Rev Lionel Edward Frederic Sarroff		1904	1951
1935 - 1936	Rev Guy Edward Julien	Curate	1912	1983
1935 - 1936	Rev Theodore Bruce McCall	Curate	1911	1969
1935 - 1938	Rev Frank Kellow		1906	1979
1937 - 1938	Rev Harold Alfred Douglas Graham	Deacon	1914	1979
1938 - 1939	Rev Charles Henry Star	Deacon	1915	1968
1938 - 1940	Guy Edward Julien		1912	1983
1938 - 1940	Rev Selwyn Henry Ide		1903	1924
1940 -	Rev Harold Worsley Palmer		1899	1962
1940 - 1942	Rev Vivian Hilder Julien	Curate	1914	1996
1942 -	Rev Charles Henry Star		1915	1968
1942 - 1943	Rev Leslie George Bottle Rose	Deacon	1912	2004
1947 - 1955	Rev John Hall		1903	1965
1947 - 1949	Rev Richard John Stockdale	Curate	1911	1997
1956 - 1961	Rev Charles Loddiges Oliver		1903	1969
2021 -	Archdeacon John Davis

Organ:

No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.

Source:

1. St Paul's Church Milawa Centenary Celebrations Sunday March 25th 1973
2. Cable Clergy Index