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State: Tasmania, Denomination: Roman Catholic
Beaconsfield, TAS - St Francis Xaviers Catholic
Address: 188 Weld Street, , Beaconsfield Tasmania, 7270
Catholic families began moving into the mining town of Beaconsfield during the 1880s. Within a decade, they had built a solid timber Church dedicated to St Francis Xavier. On May 11, 1890, Monsignor Daniels Beechinor of Launceston accompanied his uncle, Archbishop Daniei Murphy, to the West Tamar town for the laying of the foundation…
Bellerive, TAS - Corpus Christi Catholic
Year Built: 1965
Address: 2 Alma Street, , Bellerive Tasmania, 7018
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Blackmans Bay, TAS - St Pius X Catholic
Year Built: 1957
Address: 98 Chennel Highway, , Blackmans Bay Tasmania, 7052
The Church was designed by the well known Tasmanian architect J.H.E. Dorney and constructed in 1957.
Bothwell, TAS - St Andrew's Catholic
Year Built: 1939
Address: 19 Patrick Street, , Bothwell Tasmania, 7030
The Church at Bothwell was given a two-acre grant by the Colonial Government. In May 1864 permission to quarry stone on Mount Adelaide near Bothwell, "towards the completion of a church at Bothwell for the use of the Roman Catholic community". At this stage, the church was well advanced, but the private quarry from which stone had been…
Burnie, TAS - Star of the Sea Catholic
Year Built: 1891
Address: 96 Mount Street, , Burnie Tasmania, 7320
There are several foundation / plaques on the church building. The church foundation stone reads, " St Mary's Star of the Sea blessed and opened by the Most Rev Daniel Murphy D.D. Archbishop of Hobart 1st January 1891, T Kenner builder, Matthew O'Callahan Parish Priest". Another reads, " Erected to the memory of the very Revd,…
Campbell Town, TAS - St Michael's Catholic
Year Built: 1857
Address: 4 King Street, , Campbell Town Tasmania, 7210
Bishop Willson rode on horseback from Hobart to Campbell Town to lay the foundation stone of the church on June 25 1856. He was assisted by six priests, the pastor John Fitzgerald and Fathers Butler, Hogan, Bond, Dunne and Keohan. The land was secured in 1857 by Bishop Willson and was consecrated in September of that year. The…
Claremont, TAS - St Bernard's Catholic
Year Built: 1958
Address: 27 Wyndham Road, , Claremont Tasmania, 7011
The Marist Fathers took charge of St. Bernard's Parish, Claremont, when Father O'Halloran, SM, came as parish priest in February 1958. Archbishop Guilford Young blessed and opened St. Bernard's Church, in Wyndham Road on April 20, 1958. Working bees organised by Father J. C. Wallis (Claremont was served from Glenorchy before the Marists…
Colebrook, TAS - St Patrick's Catholic
Year Built: 1857
Address: 2 Arthur Street, , Colebrook Tasmania, 7027
Ashlar Gothic church. Comprises chancel, nave, north and south aisles, sacristy and north porch. East window with tracery-aisle windows (lancet) in couplets as are quatrefoil lights to clerestory. Gable iron roof. Stone balustrade and porch. A stone church in a small country town designed by Frederick Thomas and erected in 1856. The…
Cygnet, TAS - St James' Catholic
Year Built: 1940
Address: 34 Mary Street, , Cygnet Tasmania, 7112
A Foundation stone attached to the building was laid on 18 February 1940 by his Grace the Archbishop of Hobart J.D. Simonds. The Church was opened on 6 October of the same year. The church was designed in the Moorish style.
Deloraine, TAS - Holy Redeemer Catholic
Year Built: 1889
Address: 20 W Goderich Street, , Deloraine Tasmania, 7304
A stone above a doorway to the Church reads, " Pray for the soul of Rev Edward Francis Walsh 22 years Pastor of this Church who fortified with all the rites of Holy Church died December 4th 1902 in the 39th year of his Priesthood aged 64 years R.I.P.". A Foundation stone reads, " Church of the Holy Redeemer blessed and dedicated by Most…
Devonport, TAS - Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic
Address: 59 Stewart Street, , Devonport Tasmania, 7310
The first Catholic church at Devonport was established at Torquay in 1870 on the east side of the Mersey River. One foundation reads, "A.M.D.C. To Commemorate the Golden Jubiin the Priesthood of the Ven Archdeacon Michael J Beechenor P.P. This Foundation stone was laid by the Most Rev Patrick Delany D.D. Archbishop of Hobart June 14…
Fingal, TAS - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1880
Address: 10 Gray Street, , Fingal Tasmania, 7214
Sighted on the highest vantage point of the township, the church stands out as a prominent feature and reminder of the wealth of our local history. Taking three years to complete the building was constructed by local Michael Lattin following the design of Henry Hunter. During this time the Catholic Church used the Commandant's cottage as…
Franklin, TAS - St Mary's Catholic
Address: Huon Highway, Franklin, Tasmania, 7113
The Architect was Henry Hunter. The parish of Franklin amalgamated with Cygnet in 2002. The Church was closed in 2013.
Geeveston, TAS - St Joseph's Catholic
Address: 4690 Huon Highway, Geeveston, Tasmania, 7116
The Church was established in 1864.
George Town, TAS - Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic
Year Built: 1978
Address: 35 Goulburn Street, , George Town Tasmania, 7253
A small band of soldiers and a handful of convicts formed the congregation at George Town's first Mass, celebrated on June 1, 1821, by Tasmania's pioneer priest, Father Philip Conolly. For a century and a half, the little holiday town seemed lazily quiescent, only to come alive at holiday time when a horde of sun-worshippers from…
Glengarry, TAS - St Canice's Catholic
Year Built: 1894
Address: 33 Glengarry Road, , Glengarry Tasmania, 7275
The Church was built by pioneer Catholics in the district in 1894, and was served from Westbury until 1986. Daniel Burke who helped the Irish exiles at Westbury and became warden of the municipality, presented and address to the Archbishop at the opening of the church in 1894. The Church is a weatherboard building capable of seating…
Glenorchy, TAS - St John's Catholic
Address: 62 Bowden Street, , Glenorchy Tasmania, 7010
On 25th May 1858, four years after Glenorchy was declared a Municipality, the foundation stone of a church to be dedicated to St John the Baptist, was blessed. In March of the following year, the small sandstone, Pugin style church, designed by architect, Henry Hunter, and situated on the corner of the Main Road and what is now Grove…
Hobart, TAS - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1841
Address: 165 Macquarie Street, , Hobart Tasmania, 7000
A sandstone church built in Gothic style. Has a Nave with featured stonework to arched openings and pilasters to side walls. The church was built in 1841 and opened by Father Therry on Christmas morning 1841. It was designed by James Thomson, a former convict with convict labour employed to carry out the work. The tower is 60 feet…
Hobart, TAS St Mary's Catholic Cathedral
Year Built: 1898
Address: 180 Harrington Street, , Hobart Tasmania, 7000
St Mary’s Cathedral was the vision of the first Bishop of Hobart Town, Robert William Willson. Bishop Willson chose the design and spent years raising the funds. Designed by William Wardell, one of Australia’s greatest nineteenth-century architects, it was completed except for its steeple between 1876 and 1898 to a modified design by…
Invermay, TAS - St Finn Barr's Catholic
Year Built: 1954
Address: 122 Invermay Road, , Invermay Tasmania, 7248
A Foundation stone reads, " A.M.D.G. This stone was blessed and laid by his race the Most Rev E.V. Tweedy D.D. Archbishop of Hobart on 14th February 1954 W.T. Ryan Parish Priest". A second stone on a brick post reads, " These status were erected by parishioners of St Finn Barrs parish to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the Parish Priest…
Kempton, TAS - St Peter's Catholic (Former)
Year Built: 1918
Address: 111 Main Street, , Kempton Tasmania, 7030
The Church was built in 1918 to replace an earlier wooden chapel. The design for the church was proposed by the leading architect Allan Cameron Walker who studied under Henry Hunter. It had been intended that the church would cost £1600 but by the time the church was finally finished in 1921 the cost had blown out to £11,400. A large…
Kingston Beach, TAS - Christ the Priest Catholic
Address: 2 Jindabyne Road, , Kingston Beach Tasmania, 7050
Kingston, TAS - St Aloysius Catholic
Year Built: 1874
Address: Church Street, , Kingston Tasmania, 7051
The church was established in 1873 and opened in 1874. The Architect was Henry Hunter.
Latrobe, TAS - St Patrick's Catholic
Year Built: 1871
Address: 195 Gilbert Street, , Latrobe Tasmania, 7307
Bishop Willson applied for two acres at Latrobe, on October 22, 1864, as the site for a church, school and cemetery. The following February, he asked for another block in lieu of a section of land not granted "on account of the proposed tramway running near the land". The total land grant to the Catholics of Latrobe was five acres.…
Launceston, TAS - Church of the Apostles Catholic
Year Built: 1865
Address: 44 Margaret Street, , Launceston Tasmania, 7250
The foundation stone for the St Joseph's church was laid on 19 March 1839 by Rev. Gentleman, and the church was inaugurated in October 1842. Two decades later, St. Joseph's Church began to show signs of decay, and it was decided to replace it with a larger church. The plans for the new church were drawn by the Tasmanian architect Henry…
Lindisfarne, TAS - Incarnation Catholic
Address: 1 Bay Road, , Lindisfarne Tasmania, 7015
The current church was designed by parishioner and architect Lindsay Wallace Johnston. The church adopted the progressivist ideals of New Brutalism in design.
Longford, TAS - St Augustine Catholic
Year Built: 1867
Address: 24 Goderich Street, , Longford Tasmania, 7301
The first of the imposing bluestones which bind St Augustine's Church at Longford was laid in 1864 under the guidance of Longford's energetic parish priest, Fr John Butler. It was a simple act yet a grand occasion, bringing to an end a 50-odd year battle for land and funding for a church to serve the growing number of Catholic families in…
Mangana, TAS - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic (Former)
Address: 26 Elizabeth Street, , Mangana Tasmania, 7214
The church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, also known as the ‘Cathedral of the Valley’, was opened in 1912. It was the second replacing an earlier church that was built by Father Michael Beechinor in 1869.
Moonah, TAS - St Theresa Catholic
Year Built: 1954
Address: 24 Hopkins Street, , Moonah Tasmania, 7009
The area, New Town to Bridgewater was part of St. Mary's Cathedral Parish until Archbishop W. Hayden made Moonah a parish in 1931. Catholics formerly went to Mass in those times, either to Sacred Heart Church, New Town (built in 1880), or to old St. John the Baptist Church, Main Road, Glenorchy, which was blessed and opened by Bishop…
New Norfolk, TAS - St Peter's Catholic
Year Built: 1887
Address: 2 Hillside Crescent, , New Norfolk Tasmania, 7140
Archbishop Willson's first efforts to obtain priestly ministration for the Norfolk district dated from June 19, 1850, when he suggested to the Comptroller-General of convicts that Fr. Woolfrey or one of the chaplains employed in the convict department, be placed at New Norfolk to itinerate for the spiritual care of pass-holders and…
New Town, TAS - Sacred Heart Catholic
Year Built: 1880
Address: 2 Cross Street, , New Town Tasmania, 7008
The church was established largely as a result of the work of Father P. R. Hennebry and took four years to complete. The church opened in 1880, and the sanctuary was completed in 1882.
Oatlands, TAS - St Paul's Catholic
Year Built: 1850
Address: Gay Street, , Oatlands Tasmania, 7120
St Paul's Church is a two-compartment church with nave, separately expressed chancel, south porch, a sacristy against the chancel north wall and a bellcote astride the nave west gable. It has a rood screen across the chancel arch, one of only seven surviving Pugin rood screens in situ anywhere in the world. The church is constructed…
Penguin, TAS - St Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic
Address: 9 Braddon Street, , Penguin Tasmania, 7316
In the Advocate Newspaper of 18 November 1902 it states, On Sunday Rev Father O'Reilly celebrated Mass in the Town Hall, this being the first occasion on which the Catholics have had a Sunday Service in the town. A Foundation stone reads, "This stone was laid by the Right Reverend Monsionor Beechinor P.P. V.F. 18th October 1908".
Pontville, TAS - St Matthew's Catholic
Year Built: 1928
Address: Midland Highway, , Pontville Tasmania, 7030
The Foundation stone was laid on 19 August 1928 by the Most Reverend W. Barry D.D. The previous church built in 1866 was destroyed by fire.
Queenstown, TAS - St Joseph's Catholic
Address: 2 Pontifex Street, , Queenstown Tasmania, 7467
The original parish priest of Queenstown (Father Matthew O'Callaghan) began his ministry to a mining frontier when the parish was cut off from the Zeehan 'mission' in April, 1897. It seems the Catholic's of Queenstown worshipped in a temporary building until the opening of the present St Joseph's church on February 11 1898. The…
Ranelagh, TAS - St Mary of the Cross Catholic
Address: 35 Agness Street, , Ranelagh Tasmania, 7109
Richmond, TAS - St John the Evangelist Catholic
Year Built: 1837
Address: 29 St Johns Circuit, , Richmond Tasmania, 7025
St John's Church can be traced back to Australia's first Catholic bishop, John Polding who visited Van Diemen's Land, as Tasmania was then known, in 1835. He visited the Richmond area pledging to erect a church of behalf of the local Catholics. A local by the name of John Cassidy gave land for church building purposes. The church…