Churches
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Year built: between 1861 and 1870
Carlton, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1869
Address: Drummond Street, , Carlton Victoria, 3053
Originally a Wesleyan Methodist church it was designed by Joseph Reed and built between 1869 and 1870. The first church, seating 120 people was opened on 17 February 1861. It cost 260 on completion. This church later became half the Sunday School Hall. Construction commenced on 29 December 1860 and it took only 6 weeks to build.
Chiltern, VIC - St Paul's Anglican
Year Built: 1870
Address: Albert Road, , Chiltern Victoria, 3683
During 1869 services were held in the Old Fellows hall. Erected over a period between 1870 and 1875, the design was adapted from a church in Ireland. Construction was by James Fitzpatrick. The Foundation stone was laid on 25 April 1870 by Sir William Foster Stawell Chief Justice of the Colony of Victoria. The architects were…
Clifton Hill, VIC - St Luke's Hungarian Reformed Church
Year Built: 1870
Formerly a Church of England church built in 1879. It was sold to the Hungarian Reformed church in 1979. The original foundation stone was laid on 21 December 1870.
Clunes, VIC - St Andrews Uniting
Year Built: 1864
Address: Service Street, , Clunes Victoria, 3370
Constructed in the Low & mixed Gothic style it was designed by Ballarat architect J.A. Doane, and commenced in 1864. It consists of a broad nave and transepts with galleries, including cast iron balustrades. The facade incorporates a slate-roofed octagonal turret and spire and a four-light perpendicular Gothic window. The Basalt manse was…
Clunes, VIC - St Paul's Anglican
Year Built: 1870
Address: 9 Templeton Street, , Clunes Victoria, 3370
The former church was built in 1859-60 on a different site, in Fraser Street, and as a single nave. The later church, built in 1870-71 of bluestone with cement dressings, is in the Decorated Gothic mode, and is the only identifiable Australian work of the architect Thomas Austin of Austin and Johnson. The style is Later Gothic.
Colac, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1870
Address: Corner Hessie & Pollack Streets, , Colac Victoria, 3250
The Church of St John's is a fine brick building set prominently on a busy corner in the midst of the old residential area of the town. The present building replaces the first church on the site, which was dedicated to St John the Evangelist. The new building constructed from plans prepared by Messrs Henderson and Davidson was opened…
Collector, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1865
Address: 22 Bourke Street, , Collector New South Wales, 2581
The Church was built of brick. This Church superseded a smaller building in 1865. The brick layer was a Mr. Samson Ranger while Mr. John Jones acted as carpenter.
Coolah, NSW - St Jame's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1868
Address: 42 Booyamurra Street, , Coolah New South Wales, 2843
According to the Daily Telegraph on 19 April 1904 the Church was re opened by the Rev John Walker Moderatoy of the Presbyterian Assembly.
Cowes, VIC - St Philip's Anglican
Year Built: 1870
Address: 102 Thompson Avenue, , Cowes Victoria, 3922
The site of this Church was reserved for church purposes on the 12th April 1869 and was described in official language as being "crown allot 18 and part of 17 of Section 7" and fronting the main street of Cowes. The style of the building was not in the traditional Gothic style of the times but had a flat ceiling and round headed…
Cranbourne, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1864
Address: Corner Childers & Russell streets, , Cranbourne Victoria, 3977
Creswick, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1861
Address: 103 Napier Street, , Creswick Victoria, 3363
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…
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 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…
Delamare, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1870
Address: Yoho Road, , Delamere South Australia, 5204
Formerly a Wesleyan / Methodist church it was opened in 1858. The porch was opened in 1983. There is an ancillary cemented-stone building immediately to the north, as a hall and Sunday School room. [On that building is a white marble tablet, commemorating 70 years of Church life, at December 1928.
Delamere, SA - St James' Anglican
Year Built: 1870
Address: Main South Road, , Delamere South Australia, 5204
Constructed in a local basalt-like stone with cut sandstone dressings to windows and quoins. Foundation stone was laid 19 September 1870 by Archbishop Bussel. It was dedicated and opened by Bishop Augustus Short, attended by the Governor of the State. The floor is well tiled, the font is from St Peter's, Britford and is over 200 years…
Diamond Creek, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1867
Address: Corner Hyde & Main Street, , Diamond Creek Victoria, 3089
The first recorded Church of England services were conducted by the Rev. Francis Hales. In 1860 Diamond Creek came under the jurisdiction of the Eltham parish - with the Rev R Mackie, and then the Rev Josiah Hollis as vicars. The building was designed by Charles Maplestone of Heidelberg, son-in-law to Anthony Beale of St Helena.…
Eaglehawk, VIC - St Liborius Catholic
Year Built: 1869
Address: 50 Panton Street, , Eaglehawk Victoria, 3556
On January 31st 1869 The right Reverend Dr Goold, Catholic Bishop of Melbourne with Dr Backhaus and Rev. Dean Fitzgerald, opened the new Roman Catholic Church at Eaglehawk, named St Liborius.
Eaglehawk, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1863
Address: Peg Leg Road & Kirkwood Road, , Eaglehawk Victoria, 3556
The first Wesleyan Methodist church service in Eaglehawk was held in 1852. In 1863 the foundation stone of the new Wesleyan church was laid, a bottle containing various information was placed with the stone. The Architects were Vahland and Getzachumann. Contractors Rolhurst and Shepherd. The Church was made of red and white bricks and…
East Melbourne, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1864
Address: 193 Hotham Street, , East Melbourne Victoria, 3002
It is recorded the first church services were held in the school buildings on the corner of Victoria Parade and Hoddle Street. The Church was erected of bluestone and had been originally designated for a Cathedral, but Holy Trinity was erected on it with the intention that it was later to be converted to the Cathedral library or…
Echuca, VIC - Uniting (Former)
Year Built: 1869
Address: Percy Street, , Echuca Victoria, 3564
A wall plaque reads, Site of the former Wesley Church. The site of first building erected for public worship in Echuca was a modest brick chapel built in 1864. Echuca's founder, Henry Hopwood, laid the foundation stone and named the building `Echuca Wesleyan Church'. A new building opened in 1869 replaced the run down chapel and in…
Eden, NSW - St George Uniting
Year Built: 1866
Address: Chandos Street, , Eden New South Wales, 2551
The Foundation stone was laid on 24th May, 1865 and the Church was opened for services on 24th May 1866. It was the first church built after the Union of the Presbyterian Churches in NSW in 1865. The building was first cement rendered in 1931 due to crumbling of the original brickwork and the original roof replaced in 1961. In 2007,…
Eldorado, VIC - St Augustine's Catholic
Year Built: 1868
Address: 156 Main Street, , Eldorado Victoria, 3746
Eldorado, VIC - St Jude's Anglican
Year Built: 1870
Address: 71 MacKay Street, , Eldorado Victoria, 3746
Eltham, VIC - St Margaret's Anglican
Year Built: 1861
Address: Pitt Street, , Eltham Victoria, 3095
The land on which St Margaret's Church and Vicarage stands was donated by Henry Dendy, a well known Melbourne pioneer and wealthy land owner. Dendy later moved to England returning and residing in Eltham again. He chaired a meeting held in 1860 for the purpose of devising a means of establishing a Church of England in the township. The…
Epping, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1869
Address: 789 High Street, , Epping Victoria, 3076
The earliest recorded Anglican service in Epping was held in September 1863. The Anglican community, anxious to erect their own permanent church but unhappy with the low-lying site allocated to them near the Darebin Creek, applied to the Government for an alternative one, and the present two acre site in High Street was gazetted on 5 May…
Epping, VIC - St Peter's Catholic
Year Built: 1865
Address: 13 Davisson Street, , Epping Victoria, 3076
Mass had first been celebrated in the district, then known as Darebin Creek, as early as 1849. It had been held in the home of Alexander McKillop, whose daughter, Mother Mary McKillop, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. In about 1852 a Catholic Denominational School, No. 238, was established. A new wooden building was…
Fingal, TAS - St Peter's Anglican (Former)
Year Built: 1868
Address: 2 Talbot Street, , Fingal Tasmania, 7214
On March 7th, 1867, Archdeacon Reibey of Entally laid the foundation stone of this beautiful little Church. The building was expected to cost £1,300, and there were eleven acres of land attached to it as a reserve, as well as five acres for a cemetery. The clergyman of the parish was the Revd. John Chambers of Cullenswood, who used to…
Forbes, NSW - St Andrew's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1862
Address: Harold Street, , Forbes New South Wales, 2871
A wooden church was erected at the corner of Cross and Clear Streets in 1862 but was destroyed by a storm and replaced by another. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church was erected in 1877 at a cost of £1,300. Reverend Arthur Aspinall was the first resident Presbyterian clergyman in Forbes (1874-87) and he established the present church; the…
Forbes, NSW - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1861
Address: Court Street, , Forbes New South Wales, 2871
The first church was a wooden structure built in 1861 in the northwest corner of the church grounds and cost £150.00. St John's Church of England at Forbes was designed by B Backhouse and constructed between 1874 and 1877. It was built on land donated by Josiah Strickland who also gave £500 to the church building fund. The original…
Forth, TAS - All Saints Anglican (Former)
Year Built: 1868
Address: Leith Road, , Forth Tasmania, 7310
All Saints' Church was erected, and was probably opened and dedicated on or near to the Festival of All Saints, November 1st, 1868. The Church was originally erected amidst beautiful surroundings, a mile or so from Forth, on the Leith Road, and here, in this secluded spot, lie the remains of many pioneers of the district. All Saints'…
Freestone, QLD - Uniting
Year Built: 1865
Address: Freestone Creek Road, , Freestone Queensland, 4370
In about 1864 Rev. J.B. Watkin, a Wesleyan, commenced services in private homes in the area. On 2 January 1865, a public meeting was held to erect a chapel for regular services. James and Charles G. Wilson donated the land on their property adjacent to the main Freestone Road. On Sunday 4 February 1866, the first service was held in…
Freshwater Creek, VIC - St David's Lutheran
Year Built: 1866
Address: 905 Anglesea Road, , Freshwater Creek Victoria, 3217
Designed by R.S. Tutt the church measured 40ft by 20ft in addition to a vestry and porch. Mr W. Crabb was the builder. On 2nd September 1866 the building was dedicated by Pastor Schurmann. The church and grounds have both been classified by the National Trust. A plaque on the church reads, " 1866 St David's Lutheran Church". A plaque…
Gawler, SA - Baptist
Year Built: 1866
Address: 18 Murray Street, , Gawler South Australia, 5118
The first Baptist services in Gawler were held in the old Odd fellows hall in 1866 with a church being formed in the same year. The first church was erected in 1870 as both a church and school. Additions were added in 1873, classrooms in 1879 and a lecture hall in 1903. The church has a distinctive appearance and is roughly symmetrical…
Geelong, VIC - St George's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1861
Address: Corner La Trobe Tce & Ryrie Streets, , Geelong Victoria, 3220
St George's Presbyterian Church was formed in 1861 by a breakaway group from the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Yarra Street. The large and finely constructed Church reflects the wealth of many of the Church's foundation patrons, which included Francis Ormond and other western district squatters. The Church is a significant and intact…
Glebe, NSW - St John's Bishopthorp Anglican
Year Built: 1868
Address: Corner St Johns & Glebe Point Road, , Glebe New South Wales, 2037
Built of Sandstone in Norman Romanesque style the church was designed Edmund Blackett, and was opened in 1857. It was opened by Bishop Barker on 21 December 1870. The church was built in 1868-70 to the design of prominent architects Edmund Blacket and John Horbury Hunt, with the vestry and tower, both designed by Cyril Blacket,…
Golden Grove, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1863
Address: Corner Golden Grove & Greenwith Road, , Golden Grove South Australia, 5125
In 1863 Mr Paul Roberts son of Thomas Roberts of Greenwith Farm donated the land for a Primitive Methodist church which later became known as the Greenwith Chapel. Before the church was built services were held in the cellar of the home of Thomas and Hannah Roberts. The Foundation stone was laid on 15 November 1863 by Mrs Thomas…
Goolwa, SA - Holy Evangelist Anglican
Year Built: 1867
Address: Cadell Street, , Goolwa South Australia, 5214
In August 1865, the Anglican residents of Goolwa resolved to make every effort to erect a church in Goolwa. A building committee was appointed, consisting of Dr. T. Taylor, Messrs B. Sunman, T. Goode (merchant), Alan Doke, Newell, B. Varcoe E. Dutton, Smyth, W. Ray, Baldock, Joseph Field (butcher), Laffin, Shettliffe (later Shetliff),…
Goolwa, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1861
Address: Bingham Street, , Goolwa South Australia, 5214
The Church was built in 1861 with transepts added in 1881