Churches
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Year built: between 1861 and 1870
Goulburn, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1869
Address: Goldsmith Street, , Goulburn New South Wales, 2580
A historical plaque at the front of the Church reads in part, "The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was originally built in 1848 and is part of what is now the Wesley Centre. Due to a growing congregation, a trust was set up in May 1869 to erect a new church. Approval came from the trustees on the 20th May 1869 to go ahead with the…
Grenfell, NSW - Presbyterian
Year Built: 1870
Address: Weddin Street, , Grenfell New South Wales, 2810
The Foundation stone was laid on 7th December 1870 by Miss Kilpatrick.
Gundaroo, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1864
Address: Corner Lot & Cork Streets, , Gundaroo New South Wales, 2620
Formerly a Presbyterian Church built in 1864. It is a rough stone structure with external render and a galvanized iron roof. A wall plaque reads, "To the glory of God and in memory of Arthur and William Affleck who's faith and vision 150 years ago secured this land and building for future generation. Unless the Lord builds the house, the…
Gunning, NSW - St Edmond's Anglican
Year Built: 1866
Address: Biala Street, , Gunning New South Wales, 2581
The first Church was built in 1859 and was blown down and replaced by the present Church in 1866, It was consecrated 27/3/1873. It is of stone with a tiled roof. A chancel was added in 1912and a porch later. The Church was thoroughly restored and largely refurbished in 1933. The pulpit and lectern are in memory of members of the Lyell…
Hagley, TAS - St Mary's Anglican
Year Built: 1862
Address: Church Lane, , Hagley Tasmania, 7292
St Mary's Anglican Church is a bluestone Gothic Revival building that opened for services in 1862. The lands and a significant part of the church's funds were donated by Sir Richard Dry and later by his wife in her will.. Anglican services were first held in Hagley in a small brick church in the village which was the combined gift of…
Hawthorn, VIC - Immaculate Conception Catholic
Year Built: 1869
Address: 345 Burwood Road, , Hawthorn Victoria,
The first section was built in 1867-69 and the chancel choir and tower were built in 1891, followed by further additions in 1913, 1921, and 1961. The spatially complex interior includes three Eastern apses of equal height and incorporates stained glass by Ferguson, Urie & Lyon; Mayer, Montgomery and Brooks Robinson. Constructed in…
Heathcote, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1868
Address: Northern Highway, , Heathcote Victoria, 3523
The Church was constructed by local builders Flee and Bell to the design of Bendigo based architects Vahland & Getzschmann. The foundation stone was laid by Bishop Charles Perry on the afternoon of Monday the 11th May 1868 and officially opened for services on the 3rd October 1869. The bell was a gift by Messrs Christie and Spinks.…
Highton, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1866
Address: Corner Roslyn & South Valley Road, , Highton Victoria, 3216
The first recorded services in Highton were held in 1858 in the Church of England Day school opposite the cemetery in Barrabool Road. The Foundation stone for St John's was laid on 22 November 1866 by The Very Venerable H.B. Mccartney and was opened 1 January 1867. On 22 July 1926 a tornado struck the church, unroofed it and demolished…
Highton, VIC - St Lukes Uniting
Year Built: 1868
Address: 269 Roslyn Road, , Highton Victoria, 3216
The Church dates back to 1853 when the first Wesleyan church services were held in homes in the small farming community of Highton. In October 1854, at the present site, the foundation stone of the first brick church was laid and services were being held there by early 1855. The Church was erected in 1868. On July 21st, 1926 a tornado…
Hobart, TAS - St David's Anglican Cathedral
Year Built: 1868
Address: Macquarie Street, , Hobart Tasmania, 7000
On 17 January 1862 St David's Cathedral and land on the corner of Murray and Macquarie Streets, Hobart was granted by the Crown to the Trustees of the Diocese of Tasmania. The original church on this site is dated from 1817. The Church was named in memory of Governor David Collins who established Hobart in 1804. It was completed in…
Hobart, TAS - Uniting
Year Built: 1870
Address: Brisbane Street, , Hobart Tasmania, 7000
Formerly a Congregational Church. It was built in 1870 and rebuilt in 1936 & enlarged in 1939. The congregation of this church first met in 1836 in the small Beraea Chapel in Liverpool Street, which has since been demolished. In 1837 a new church was built in lower Collins Street. By the 1850s this proved too small to meet the…
Hunters Hill, NSW - Holy Name of Mary Catholic
Year Built: 1867
Address: 3 Mary Street, , Hunters Hill New South Wales, 2110
The church was originally designed to be the chapel of the adjacent Villa Maria Monastery. The foundation stone was blessed by the Archbishop of Sydney and laid on 15 September, 1867. In the early 1970s and again in 1988 work was carried out to the interior of the church to accommodate the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.…
Inglewood, VIC - St Augustine's Anglican
Year Built: 1864
Address: 67 Sullivan Street, , Inglewood Victoria, 3517
The first part of St Augustine's Church was opened in 1864. The building was designed by the notable firm of Bendigo architects Vahland & Getzschmann and built in bichromatic brickwork.
Inverleigh, VIC - Presbyterian
Year Built: 1861
Address: Western Highway, , Inverleigh Victoria, 3321
Ipswich, QLD - St Stephen's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1864
Address: Corner Limestone & Gordon Streets, , Ipswich Queensland, 4305
St Stephens Presbyterian Church stands as the second church to be constructed on the current site in 1864 - 1865. This striking gothic style brick church was designed by architect Joseph Backhouse and continues to be the place of worship for one the oldest congregations in Ipswich. The first Presbyterian church service held in Ipswich was…
Kaniva, VIC - Presbyterian
Year Built: 1863
Address: Dungey Street, Kaniva, Victoria, 3419
In the Wimmera the first know church service was held at the Nhill Station Homestead by Reverend James Clow in 1848. In 1863, and on the 7th January, the first Presbytery of Wimmera met and was constituted with the Revs. James Megaw of Ararat, Patrick Simpson of Horsham, Mr Daniel Hill McMurtrie of the Lake Hindwtrsh Charge, and…
Keilor Park, VIC - St Augustine's Catholic
Year Built: 1863
Address: 98 Harrick Road, , Keilor Park Victoria, 3042
In 1854 Father Matthew Downing, an Irish Augustinian priest of Eureka Stockade fame, was appointed as the first pastor to the newly formed Keilor Parish. He quickly set about building a school, later relocated to this site, a presbytery and a church. The construction of St. Augustine's, built to the design of Charles Hansom's Church,…
Kenmore, QLD - Uniting
Year Built: 1868
Address: 3451 Moggill Road, , Kenmore Queensland, 4070
The timber church was constructed in 1868. Originally known as the Moggill Wesleyan Methodist Church, the church was extended in 1905 to accommodate the growing congregation. In 1941 a hall was added to the church and this was made possible by the donation of £300 from Mr and Mrs Joseph Sinnamon, early Moggill farmers. By the turn of…
Kew, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1863
Address: High Street, , Kew Victoria, 3101
First Services were held in a small building in Peel street and conducted by Reverend W. Baxter. The present site for the church was purchased in 1862 for a sum of £125.00. On Wednesday, 3 September 1862, the foundation stone of the church was laid after prayers led by the Reverend Selwyn Chase and an address by the Bishop of…
Keyneton, SA - Congregational Independant (Former)
Year Built: 1865
Address: 905 Keyneton Road, , Keyneton South Australia, 5353
Built in 1865 as an Independent / Congregational Chapel. During 1965 Keyneton and Eden Valley Congregational Churches joined with Mount Pleasant and South Ryan Presbyterian to become Uniting Parish of Keyneton – Mount Pleasant (Uniting Church). It was transferred from the Uniting Church in Australia to private ownership around 2008.
Kilmore, VIC - St Andrew's Presyterian (Former)
Year Built: 1864
Address: 3 Hamilton Street, , Kilmore Victoria, 3764
The earlier records of this congregation have been lost, but apparently services were held at irregular intervals in the old Mechanics' Hall. These services were conducted by Mr. Donald McInnes.At the first Annual Meeting of the congregation held in October, 1852, the erection of a Free Church in Kilmore was unanimously agreed to, and Mr.…
Koroit, VIC - Infant Jesus Catholic
Year Built: 1870
Address: 20 Queen Street, , Koroit Victoria, 3282
The Church was blessed and opened on Sunday 13th November 1870, by Rev. D. Fitzpatrick V.G., acting on behalf of Bishop Goold, who was away attending the first Vatican Council at the time. The Examiner next day said more than one thousand people waited for the doors to open. The contractor for the main construction was Broadbent Watson &…
Korong Vale, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1868
Address: Boort Road, , Korong Vale Victoria, 3520
The Foundation stone was laid in 1868. The Church is a Gothic Revival structure built of locally quarried sandstone. It has lancet windows with a chancel added in 1909. The design is that believed to be of the Rev. William Hall. Mr Samuel and Mrs Rinder donated a new hall to the Church in memory of their daughter.
Kyneton, VIC - Baptist
Year Built: 1861
Address: 43 Ebden Street, , Kyneton Victoria, 3444
The first Baptist services were held in late 1859 in the Kyneton Mechanics Hall. In October 1860 the Kyneton Baptist church was officially established. Shortly after this and in 1861 the church commenced it search for a suitable bloc of land for a church. Piper Street was selected and a wooden chapel was opened for regular services on 2…
Lancefield, VIC - Christ Church Anglican
Year Built: 1868
Address: 33 Chauncey Street, , Lancefield Victoria, 3435
The Church was opened in 1868.
Lancefield, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1866
Address: High Street, , Lancefield Victoria, 3435
In the early 1860s Presbyterian services in the district were commonly held in privately owned barns, before being held at the Union Church on the corner of Parks and Collivers roads, Lancefield. In 1866 a Presbyterian Church was built in Lancefield town (current 23 High Street; now a Uniting Church). The first stone was…
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…
Launceston, TAS - Pilgrim Uniting
Year Built: 1866
Address: 34 Paterson Street, , Launceston Tasmania, 7250
Built in the Gothic style the church is made from polychrome brick with stucco dressings and was designed by the notable firm of Melbourne architects Crouch & Wilson and based upon St Peter's Church, Woolwich in the UK. Opened 21 February 1868, after the congregation outgrew the original Wesleyan Chapel next door, which is now the…
Launceston, TAS - St Paul's Anglican (Former)
Year Built: 1861
Address: Cleveland Street, , Launceston Tasmania, 7250
The first recorded meeting of parishioners was held November, 1854, those present being the Chairman Rev G.B. Smith, Austin, Barnes, Cleveland, Henty, Palmer and Turnbull. Cleveland and Turnbull were appointed Churchwardens. At a meeting on 9th February, 1855, it was proposed that school be opened in the temporary Church in Frankland…
Leopold, VIC - St Mark's Anglican
Year Built: 1863
Address: 725 Queenscliff Road, , Leopold Victoria, 3224
In 1853 the Rev. George Pollard was appointed to care for Anglicans for the whole of the Bellarine district, the initial church being the school at Pt. Henry. This simple and original early English Gothic style church is an interesting parish church design and a notable work of Edward Prowse, a Geelong architect with an acknowledged…
Lismore, VIC - Presbyterian
Year Built: 1864
Address: High Street, , Lismore Victoria, 3324
At the Congregational Meeting held on the 10th March, 1864, a motion was approved " that a church be built, that the building be of stone, according to a plan that may afterward be considered desirable." A building committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs J. L. Currie, John Logan and Archibald Glenn. On the 29th March the tender…
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…
Lyndoch, SA - Baptist
Year Built: 1862
Address: 9 Kauffman Avenue, , Lyndoch South Australia, 5351
The church was built in 1862 and opened on 31 August of that year. The Lyndoch Baptist Congregation was formed in 1859, but their original place of worship outside the township was sold to the St Jakobi Lutheran Congregation in 1862 and the present church built at a cost of £310. During the early years of worship George Fife Ang as…
Lyndoch, SA - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1861
Address: Corner Altona Road & Barossa Valley Way, , Lyndoch South Australia, 5351
Land for this church was set aside as a gift from the South Australian Company which completed the survey of the Lyndoch Valley in 1839. One acre of land was donated to the Church of England for a church and cemetery, but before the building was finished the area was flooded and another site had to be found. Another grant of land in…
Maclean, NSW - Free Presbyterian
Year Built: 1864
Address: 8 Wharf Street, , Maclean New South Wales,
A wall plaque reads, "Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia. This building erected in 1864, was the first building in town, and is the oldest church in the Clarence Valley still in continuous use. Services were conducted by a visiting minister until a call was made to the Reverend Duncan McInnes who was inducted into the church on July…
Maldon, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1863
Address: Fountain Street, , Maldon Victoria, 3463
Formerly a Wesleyan Methodist Church. In 1863 the main church was built by the architects Crouch and Wilson.
Malmsbury, VIC - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1861 - 1866
Address: Brodie Street, , Malmsbury Victoria, 3446
The first church service in Malmsbury was held in what was Mr French's store when the Rev'd James Sullivan was then Rector of Kyneton. The Church was designed by Purchas & Swyer in the Later Gothic style. A wall plaque reads, "St John the Evangelist Church 1861. Bishop Perry laid the foundation stone watched by 300 people in Nov 1861.…
Malmsbury, VIC - Wesleyan (Former)
Year Built: 1865
Address: 90 Mollison Street, , Malmsbury Victoria, 3446
A former Wesleyan Chapel which was built in 1865. It was subsequently used by the local community as the Albert Hall and is now a private building.
Manly, NSW - Congregational
Year Built: 1862
Address: 50 Sydney Road, , Manly New South Wales, 2095
The Church is the oldest ecclesiastical building on the northern beaches of Sydney. The Church was opened in December 1863. In 1859 Manly’s founder, Henry Gilbert Smith, sold a parcel of land in Raglan St for £100 to John Fairfax, who was co-owner of the Sydney Morning Herald, and David Jones, the founder of the up-market department…
Marion, SA - Methodist Wesleyan Chapel
Year Built: 1867
Address: Township Road, , Marion South Australia, 5043
The first Methodist service was held in the home of Henry and Ann Shearing. Henry donated the land the church is built on. The front 16 feet was added in 1867. The foundation stone was laid on 15 July 1862 and the opening ceremony occurred on 14 December 1862, led by the Reverend Mr Watsford. In 1911 the Church was completely…