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State: New South Wales
Aberdeen, NSW - St Mark's Anglican
Address: Moray Street, , Aberdeen New South Wales, 2336
The Churches centenary was held in 2013.
Adelong, NSW - St Paul's Anglican
Address: Neill Street, , Adelong New South Wales, 2729
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Albion Park, NSW - All Saints' Anglican
Year Built: 1875
Address: 253 Tongarra Road, , Albion Park New South Wales, 2527
This gothic revivalist church was built from sandstone quarried at Yellow Rock. The architect was Mr. E Blacket of Sydney, and the builder Mr. Schadel. The Reverend’s wife, Mrs. Rowsell, laid the foundation stone in the north east corner of the building in 1875. Under the stone was placed a glass bottle time capsule containing a copy of…
Albion Park, NSW - Presbyterian
Year Built: 1908
Address: 250 Tongarra Road, , Albion Park New South Wales, 2527
The first Presbyterian Church in Albion Park was built of rubble stone in 1866 but was demolished due to disrepair. The new Presbyterian Church was built with half the cost being met by Albion Park pioneer John Russell. It was built of rubble stone in 1866 but was demolished due to disrepair. The Church Gothic style Church was built by F.…
Albion Park, NSW - Southern Church of Christ
Address: 107 Tongarra Road, , Albion Park New South Wales, 2527
Albion Park, NSW - St Paul's Catholic
Address: 247 - 251 Tongarra Road, , Albion Park New South Wales, 2527
Albury North, NSW - Greek Orthodox
Year Built: 1964
Address: 378 Olive Street, , Albury North New South Wales, 2640
A Foundation stone reads, " This Foundation stone was laid on 22.3.1964 by his Eminence Archbishop Ezekiel".
Albury North, NSW - St Andrew's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1974
Address: 402 Wagga Road, , Albury North New South Wales, 2641
A Foundation stone reads, " To the Glory of God this Foundation stone was laid by Mr W. Stanley Carnie Elder on 27th May 1973. The Church was opened by The Right Reverend Norman Monsen Moderator Assembly New South Wales and dedicated by the Presbytery of Wagga Wagga on 9th November 1974. Minister Reverend Ian C. Davidson".
Albury North, NSW - Trinity Uniting
Year Built: 1958
Address: 1052 Mate Street, , Albury North New South Wales, 2640
The Foundation stone was laid August 9 1958 by Rev E A Bennett and opened November 29 by Rev E H Wood.
Albury, NSW - Baptist
Address: Corner Crisp & Macavley Streets, , Albury New South Wales, 2640
Albury, NSW - St Luke's Lutheran
Address: 436 Guinea Street, , Albury New South Wales, 2640
A Foundation stone for a new Church was laid on 28 September 1938.
Albury, NSW - St Matthew's Anglican
Year Built: 1859
Address: 4518 Kiewa Street, , Albury New South Wales,
The Albury Anglican Parish was established in February 1850 and by 1851 the first rector Henry Elliott had arrived. By 1856 a plan by Sydney architect Edmund Blacket was accepted and work began in 1857. The first portion: nave, south porch and tower base, was opened on March 13 1859. The external walls were of local Monument Hill…
Albury, NSW - St Patrick's Catholic
Year Built: 1843
Address: Corner Olive & Smolett Streets, , Albury New South Wales, 2640
Father Charles Lovat, a pioneer priest from Yass, celebrated Albury's first Catholic mass on November 25, 1843 in a much smaller building at a different location. The present Church was opened on November 24, 1872. The priest who planned its construction was buried behind the altar. He was Dr. Michael McAlroy, Albury's parish priest from…
Alexandria, NSW - St Lazarus Serbian Orthodox
Address: 14 Renwick Street, , Alexandria New South Wales, 2015
Annandale, NSW - Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian
Year Built: 1886
Address: Corner Johnson & Collins Streets, , Annandale New South Wales, 2038
Built between 1886 and 1889 and opened in February 1889 the church was a gift by Mrs Helen Hunter Baillie as a memorial to her husband John Baillie who died in 1854. He was a sub-editor of the Colonial Observer and later the Secretary and Inspector of the Bank of New South Wales. The Architect's were Cyril Arthur Blackett son of the…
Annandale, NSW - St Aidan's Anglican
Year Built: 1892
Address: 120 Johnston Street, , Annandale New South Wales, 2038
A commitment on 2 October 1891 was made to purchase as block of land at the corner of Booth and Johnston Streets for a price of £9 per square foot. A quote was accepted from Archibald Graham. The Foundation stone was to be laid 18 June 1892 however this was delayed due to building delays and a mistake by the builder who said he made a…
Annandale, NSW - St Brendan's Catholic
Year Built: 1912
Address: Corner Johnson & Collins Streets, , Annandale New South Wales, 2038
The first congregation of the newly established parish met for Mass in the Council Chambers on Sunday 6 March 1898. There were about fifty people present.* A block of land at the corner of Trafalgar and Johnson Streets was purchased and it was proposed to build a church school and convent. The Architect was Joseph Sheerin. The Church…
Annandale, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1891
Address: 82 Johnston Street, , Annandale New South Wales, 2038
A wall plaque reads, " National Trust Classified. Annandale Uniting formerly Methodist Church was built in 1891 incorporating the façade of the Bull and Company Warehouse, at 104 – 106 Pitts Street Sydney which was destroyed by fire in 1890. The ornate Victorian stonework was carved by Thomas Wran, the Great Grandfather of Neville Wran a…
Appin, NSW - St Bed's Catholic
Year Built: 1838
Address: 26 King Street, , Appin New South Wales, 2560
The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Chapel was laid at Appin last week by Bishop Polding”. St Bede’s Catholic Church was officially opened on 8 October 1843. Restoration works were carried out in 1999 with a formal opening occurring in early 2000. A rustic iron sign outside the gorgeous and historically significant St Bede’s reads “The…
Appin, NSW - St Mark's Anglican
Year Built: 1843
Address: 1-3 Church Street, , Appin New South Wales, 2560
The site was established in 1839 and the Church commenced in 1841. The Australian (9 January 1841) noted: '...a very neat Episcopalian Church of stone, also a Roman Catholic chapel, are in the course of completion at Appin'. St Mark's was opened 25 April 1843 and dedicated by the Bishop W G Broughton. This is a small dressed sandstone…
Armidale, NSW - Baptist
Address: 187 Chapel Street, , Armidale New South Wales, 2350
Plans for a church in Armidale were drawn up by Mr R. Hickson according to the Armidale Express 26 April 1918. On December 14, 1918 the Church building was formally opened. On February 20, 1920 a church meeting of the New England Baptist Church resolved that the name be changed to Armidale District Baptist Church and that the 'centre of…
Armidale, NSW - Baptist
Year Built: 1918
Address: 124 Jessie Street, , Armidale New South Wales, 2350
The first Baptist Church in Armidale was built in 1882 on the corner of Brown and Allingham Streets. The current Armidale property, on corner Rusden and Jessie Streets, was purchased by members of the Black Mountain congregation in 1918, and the current Armidale building was opened in December that year. It cost £2,500. A Foundation…
Armidale, NSW - St Mary and Joseph Catholic
Year Built: 1911
Address: 136 Dangar Street, , Armidale New South Wales, 2350
Mr Joseph Daly donated £300 to purchase suitable land for the first Cathedral closer to the centre of town and a decision was made to purchase land from Thomas Bryan Fitzgerald on the north-western corner of Dangar and Barney Streets, Armidale. The cathedral, of brick construction and a shingled roof, was duly opened on the Feast of the…
Armidale, NSW - St Peter's Anglican
Year Built: 1871
Address: 122 Rusden Street, , Armidale New South Wales, 2350
The original St Peter's Church, a timber building, was opened in 1850 near the site of the present cathedral. The foundation stone for the cathedral, designed by Canadian Architect, J. Horbury Hunt, was laid in 1873. Hunt's original concept and alternative design, both stone and in the Anglo-French style, were largely in keeping with…
Armidale, NSW - Uniting
Address: 114 Rusden Street, , Armidale New South Wales, 2350
The original church was built in 1864 and is the oldest surviving Church building in Armidale. The Architect was Mr Thomas Rowe. It is now Wesley Hall. A Foundation stone reads, " This stone was laid by Rev W.H. Beale November 30 1892". A plaque reads, " This plaque was unveiled on 14th February 1988 to commemorate the restoration of the…
Arncliffe, NSW - St David's Anglican
Address: 54 Forest Road, , Arncliffe New South Wales, 2205
The original St David's Anglican Church was in Hirst St, on part of the land granted in 1833 to convict overseer Reuben Hannam by Governor Bourke, as a reward for developing the sandstock brick much used in early colonial building. A church was built in 1879, and served for the next thirty years. In March 1906, a larger more prominent…
Arncliffe, NSW - St Francis Xavier Catholic
Year Built: 1931
Address: 4 Forest Road, , Arncliffe New South Wales, 2205
The Church was designed by Clement Clancy in the Romanesque style and built in 1931. It features a distinctive 33 metre high round Celtic tower. A Foundation stone reads, "This stone was blessed and laid by Archbishop Kelly Dec 3rd 1911".
Arncliffe, NSW - St Mark's Coptic Orthodox
Year Built: 1906
Address: 72 Wollongong Road, , Arncliffe New South Wales, 2205
A Foundation stone reads, This memorial stone was laid by Mrs Marian Davies July 21 1906. A further Foundation stone reads, " This Foundation stone was laid by His Excellency Admiral Sir Harry Rawson GG3 Governor of NSW July 21 1906". A further foundation stone reads "The God of heaven, He will prosper us therefore we his servants will…
Ashbury, NSW - St Francis Xavier Catholic
Year Built: 1955
Address: 54 Leopold Street, , Ashbury New South Wales, 2193
The Parish was established in 1928 with Fr McMahon as our first pastor. The foundation stone for the first building was laid in 1929 and into the foundations was buried a stone which had come from the church in Malacca where St. Francis Xavier had preached the Gospel. In 1930 which was to have a significant and continuing influence on…
Ashbury, NSW - St Matts Anglican
Address: 4 Leith Street, , Ashbury New South Wales, 21993
A Foundation stone reads, " This stone was laid to the Glory of God by Mrs J.H. Goodlet 17th Oct 1926".
Ashbury, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1957
Address: 5 Melville Street, , Ashbury New South Wales, 21993
A Foundation stone reads, " To the Glory of God this stone was laid by the Rev BR Wyllie MA BD President NSW Conference 26th Oct 1957. The Rev P.F. Gibson Minister". The Hall is called the Peace Memorial Hall and was built around 1962.
Ashfield, NSW - Baptist
Year Built: 1937
Address: 19 Holden Street, , Ashfield New South Wales, 2131
The first Baptist Church building in Ashfield was in 1886 at 25 Holden Street, The current Church is the third on this site and was built in 1937. A Foundation stone reads, " This stone was unveiled to the Glory of God by Rev R. Goodman Pastor of the Church 28th August 1937". A church of dark brown face brickwork with dressings of…
Ashfield, NSW - Presbyterian
Year Built: 1885
Address: 3 Knox Street, , Ashfield New South Wales, 2131
The first Presbyterian service in Ashfield was held in the Oddfellows' Hall in October, 1875, On 12/3/1876 the first weatherboard church was opened by the Revd. Dr John Dummore Lang, the land having been given by John Pope, Ashfield's first Mayor. In 1882, additional land was purchased and a building fund opened for a new church. Knox…
Ashfield, NSW - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1843
Address: 81 Alt Street, , Ashfield New South Wales, 2131
The foundation stone of a church was laid by Bishop Broughton in 1840, but problems with brickwork resulted in Edmund Blacket being called in and the church being re-erected under his direction. The first section was completed in 1843 and consecrated in 1845. The third Rector, the Revd. Fred Wilkinson, carved the reredos and screen to…
Ashfield, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1865
Address: 180 Liverpool Road, , Ashfield New South Wales, 2131
Formerly a Methodist Church it was established in 1840 and constructed in 1865. The site one which the Church now stands was part of the 1841 subidivion of the Canterbury Estate. Robert Campbell donated the land to the Wesleyan Church in 1842, and a small church was first erected on the site now occupied by the hall. The foundation stone…
Asquitch, NSW - St John's Anglican
Address: 6 Royston Parade, , Asquith New South Wales, 2077
The foundation stone for the first St John's Anglican Church was laid by Mrs. George (Emily) Pile on 23rd July 1921. The completed church was dedicated by Archbishop Wright in April 1923. A full history can be viewed here.
Asquith, NSW - Church of Christ
Address: 3 Amor Street, , Asquith New South Wales, 2077
A Foundation stone reads, " To the Glory of God this stone was set by R Greenhaigh Conference President 9th August 1958".