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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.
Cygnet, TAS - St Mark's Anglican
Year Built: 1875
Address: George Street, , Cygnet Tasmania, 7112
The church building was begun in 1874, opened in 1875 and dedicatcd in 1876 at a cost of 1,208, Additions were made in October 1894 and the church consecrated. Further additions were made in 1913, and in April 1918 a new vestry was dedicated as a memorial to the Lymington church which had been destroyed by fire. A Foundation stone was…
Cygnet, TAS - Uniting
Year Built: 1951
Address: 41 Mary Street, , Cygnet Tasmania, 7112
Formerly a Methodist church the foundation stone was laid on 15 December 1951 by the Reverend A.W.R. Milligan Chairman of the Methodist Assembly Tasmania. It replaced a weatherboard building. Overnight services were being conducted during 1864 and the need for a chapel was felt. A building was constructed during the 1870s. During 1902…
Daceyville, NSW - St Michael's Catholic
Year Built: 1913
Address: 29 Banks Avenue, Daceyville, Daceyville New South Wales, 2032
Daceyville was Crown land in the 1880's and was named Raggetty Flat. In January of 1913, the Government Housing Board asked Archbishop Kelly if the Catholic Church was interested in participating in a ballot for sites to erect religious buildings in the then named Dacey Garden Suburb. The Archbishop accepted the invitation and the…
Daisy Hill, QLD - St Mark's Anglican
Address: 41 Winnetts Road, , Daisy Hill Queensland, 4127
Dalby, QLD - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1922
Address: 153 Cunningham Street, , Dalby Queensland, 4405
The Foundation stone was laid by the Right Honourable H.W.B. Forster of Lepe on 29 August 1922. St John's Church, Dalby is a brick church constructed in 1922-1923 to the design of Harry Marks and is the third church of this name on the site. The previous timber church, built in 1876, remained on the site in a modified form as part of a…
Dalby, QLD - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1921
Address: Cunningham Street, , Dalby Queensland, 4405
Construction was begun in 1865 on the first Church using local clay for bricks, sourced from the creek's banks. not far from the site of the church. In October 1865, the Dalby Herald reported that construction of the church was "progressing favourably, the brick walls now having attained considerable altitude." However, with the desire to…
Dalby, QLD - St Mark's Lutheran
Year Built: 1973
Address: Condamine Street, , Dalby Queensland, 4405
The Foundation stone was laid 12 August 1973.
Dalby, QLD - Uniting
Year Built: 1949
Address: 80 Condamine Street, , Dalby Queensland, 4405
Formerly a Methodist Church a Foundation stone was laid on 4 October 1949 by the Reverend H. W. Prouse President of the Queensland Methodist Conference.
Dandenong North, VIC - Parish of St Gerard Majella Catholic
Address: 71 Gladstone Road, , Dandenong North Victoria, 3175
The Blessing of the site for the new Church took place on Sunday 20th October 1968 by Bishop Moran D.D. The church was built of modular steel and is dominated by a 50 ft. steeple. It was built by Kurth Bros. Pty. Ltd. of Mentone, and accommodates a congregation of 750.
Dandenong, VIC - St James' Anglican
Year Built: 1865
Address: 53 Langhorne Street, , Dandenong Victoria, 3175
The first church service in Dandenong was conducted on July 21, 1850 in Dunbar's Hotel, which also served as a courthouse, saleroom and a general venue for meetings. In October 1863 a meeting of church members and others was arranged to discuss the erection of a church. The Foundation Stone was laid July 5, 1864, by the Governor of…
Dandenong, VIC - St Mary's Catholic
Address: 160 Foster Street, , Dandenong Victoria, 3175
The present site was obtained in 1855 and the First Mass was said there in December 1864 by the same Archbishop in a tent. The next day, he laid the first stone for the first St. Mary’s Church, which was completed in 1866.
Dandenong, VIC - St Michael & St Luke Anglican
Year Built: 1998
Address: 1472 Heatherton Road, , Dandenong Victoria, 3175
A Foundation stone reads, " St Michael and St Luke's Church was dedicated and consecrated by Archbishop Keith Rayner September 13 1998. Vicar Alan Hughes Architect Malcolm Elliott Builder Ross Jackson". A further foundation stone reads, " St Michael's Church This stone was set by Geoffrey T. Sambell Bishop 8th March 1969 Peter F.…
Dandenong, VIC - Uniting
Address: 32 Scott Street, , Dandenong Victoria, 3175
The earliest regular services in Dandenong were held in 1854 when the Reverend Alexander Duff arrived in Victoria from the Presbytery of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The opening service in the brick church was 6 March 1887. The preacher for this service was Reverend W. Lockhart Morton. As well local preachers, J. Reynolds from Oakleigh…
Dapto, NSW - St John the Evangelist Catholic
Year Built: 1986
Address: 24 Jerramatta Street, , Dapto New South Wales, 2530
A Foundation stone reads, " This Foundation stone of St John the Evangelist Church was blessed and set by The Most Reverend William E. Murray D.D. DSc Sc SOC Bishop of Wollongong on Sunday 28th September 1986. Rev J.T. Ward".
Dapto, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1958
Address: 122 Princes Highway, , Dapto New South Wales, 2530
A Foundation stone reads, " Unveiled to the Glory of God by Mrs Catherine Livingston 20th September 1958".
Darling Point, NSW - St Mark's Anglican
Year Built: 1852
Address: 57A Darling Point Road, , Darling Point New South Wales, 2027
Built of Pyrmont sandstone in the Gothic Revival style with a shingle roof, the church has a spire, porch, gallery and vestries. It was designed by Architect Edmund Blacket on land donated by T.S. Mort. The spire was added in 1875 and donated by William Laidley. St Mark's was opened for Divine Service on November 7, 1852.
Darlington Point, NSW - St Oliver Plunkett's Catholic
Year Built: 1925
Address: Hay Road, , Darlington Point New South Wales, 2027
The Foundation stone was laid on 29 November 1925 by the Right Reverend J.W. Dwyer Bishop of Wagga.
Darlington Point, NSW - St Paul's Anglican
Year Built: 1923
Address: Carrington Street, , Darlington Point New South Wales, 2027
The Foundation stone was laid on 15 August 1923 by Ernest Augustus Anderson Bishop of Riverena.
Darlington, NSW - St Michael's Melkite Catholic
Year Built: 1979
Address: 23 Golden Grove Street, , Darlington New South Wales, 2008
A wall plaque reads, " This plaque was dedicated by the Most Reverend Issam John Darwish BSO DD Eparch for the Glory of God and as a remembrance of Archimandrite Silwanos Mansour Archimandrite Sophronos Khoury Archimandrite Nicholas Caba Archimandrite Malatios Chahoud father Alexios Malouf father Joseph Hallit, Archimandrite, Aftimos…
Darwin City, NT - Christ Church Anglican Cathedral
Year Built: 1975
Address: 2 Smith Street, , Darwin City Northern Territory, 0800
Construction of the first church, except for the vestry which was added later, was completed three months after the laying of the foundation stone. That stone was laid (three times) by Mr Justice Dashwood, the Government Resident, on 12 July 1902. The Architect of this Church was A. Andrews. The current Church was consecrated on Sunday…
Darwin City, NT - Darwin Memorial Uniting
Year Built: 1959
Address: 78 Smith Street, , Darwin City Northern Territory, 0800
The Church has been a continuing congregation since 1873. A Methodist congregation was started in co-operation with the Congregational Church. The church was built in Knuckey Street on the corner with Mitchell Street. In 1940, the Presbyterian Church purchased land in Smith Street and, in co-operation with the existing Methodist…
Darwin City, NT - St Mary's Star of the Sea Cathedral
Address: 90 Smith Street, , Darwin City Northern Territory, 0800
In September 1882, four Jesuit priests, led by Fr Anthony Strele, established a Catholic Mission Station, and within a few years built a church on the site of the current Presbytery. The first sod was turned on 16th December, 1957, and the foundation stone was blessed by Bishop O’Loughlin on 13th July, 1958. This stone was cut from a…
Darwin City, NT - St Nicholas Greek Orthodox
Year Built: 1953
Address: 90 Cavenagh Street, , Darwin City Northern Territory, 0800
On 27th September 1953 the foundation stone of the current Greek Orthodox Church in Darwin, St Nicholas, was laid by His Grace Archbishop Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos. Two years later, the Greek Orthodox Community of Darwin was formally established. Two locals Petros Mihailou, and his son, Michael Mihailou, put many hours of…
Dayboro, QLD - St Aidan's Anglican
Address: 46 McKenzie Street, , Dayboro Queensland, 4521
The Church was officially opened on Sunday 6 April 1930 by Archbishop Gerald Sharp.
Dayboro, QLD - Uniting
Address: 11 Williams Street, , Dayboro Queensland, 4521
Terrors Creek Presbyterian church was built in 1900. On 20 November 2016, the church celebrated its 115th anniversary.
Daylesford, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1863
Address: 54 Central Springs Road, , Daylesford Victoria, 3460
An early and good example of Leonard Terry's church design, dating from 1862-3, and in the Early English style. The building comprises a spacious nave of six bays, porch and elevated chancel. The church was built between 1862 and 1863 and the Chancel added in 1896. The original portion was funded by the local people under direction of…
Daylesford, VIC - St Andrew's Presbyterian (Former)
Year Built: 1904
Address: 21 Camp Street, , Daylesford Victoria, 3460
The foundation stone was laid in 1903 by Mrs Jessie Leggatt of a prominent Daylesford family (there is a Leggatt Street in the town). Mrs Leggatt gave the money to build the church and her marble memorial plaque remains affixed inside the empty porch. The style is a modified English Decorated. A brick church built between 1903 and 1904…
Daylesford, VIC - St Peter's Catholic
Year Built: 1863
Address: 13 Duke Street, , Daylesford Victoria, 3460
A Gothic church designed by Willilam Wardell in 1863 rather in the manner of Charles Hansom, but later degraded by the rebuilding of the west end after the collapse of the west wall and turret, The church is a simple form with a five bay gabled nave containing geometric decorated gothic windows and stepped buttressing. The gable roof…
Daylesford, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1865
Address: 17 Duke Street, , Daylesford Victoria, 3460
A brick Gothic style building, with a tower and accommodation for 600 people including a sandstone chapel of 1861 and substantial brick church of 1865. A wall plaque reads, "This plaque commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Daylesford Uniting Church formerly Wesley/Methodist Church 1865 1990 unveiled by Rev G Kerry Graham…
Daylston, VIC - Holy Cross Catholic (Former)
Address: 72 Daylston Glen Forbes Road, , Dalyston Victoria, 3992
In 1901, the church was built on land donated by Mr P.J. Daly of 'Cloverdale'. It was opened in February 1902. It is now a Function centre and privately owned. The former Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church and presbytery are an subsantialy intact example of a rural church with simple Gothic revival detailing. The church is also notable for…
Deagon, QLD - Connect Baptist
Address: 21 Braun Street, , Deagon Queensland, 4017
Connect Baptist Church came into being in 2012 as a result of the merger of the Sandgate and Geebung Baptist Churches.