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Angaston, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1861
Address: Corner Fyfe & Sturt Street, Angaston, South Australia, 5353
Formerly a Congregational church the first church was a red brick chapel built in 1861 at the rear of the current church. The foundation stone of this church was laid by Mr J H Angas Esq J.P. on 13 May 1878. It cost 2162.00. It is of Gothic Revival style with bluestone walls and rendered dressings. The leadlight windows were shipped from…
Angaston, SA - Zion Lutheran
Year Built: 1861
Address: 85 Murray Street, , Angaston South Australia, 5353
The Church was originally built for joint use however by 1861 there was a divide and only the Baptists kept using it until 1929. For the next 12 years it was used by building contractor G.N. Dallwitz. A Lutheran Church had been built in Hill street but when that was destroyed by fire in 1941 Dallwitz offered this building to the…
Anglesea, VIC - Anglican
Address: 2 Camp Road, Anglesea, Victoria, 3230
The Church was opening on 19 May 1957.
Anglesea, VIC - Trinity Uniting
Address: 9 Murch Crescent, , Anglesea Victoria, 3230
Formerly a Presbyterian Church. The church was opened January 2 1887.
Annandale, NSW - Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian
Year Built: 1886
Address: Corner Johnson & Collins Streets, Sydney, 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 Brendan's Catholic
Year Built: 1912
Address: Corner Johnson & Collins Streets, Sydney, 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 was…
Apollo Bay, VIC - Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic
Address: 4 Nelson Street, Apollo Bay, Victoria, 3233
The Foundation stone was laid the Rev J.P. O'Collins D.D. Bishop of Ballarat on 3 September 1952. No further information currently available. Submissions welcomed.
Apollo Bay, VIC - St Aidan's Anglican
Year Built: 1905
Address: Collingwood Street, Apollo Bay, Victoria, 3233
Built in 1905.
Applecross, WA - Chinese Presbyterian
Address: 33 Willcock Street, Perth, Applecross Western Australia, 6153
Applecross, WA - Church of Christ
Address: 33 Willcock Street, Perth, Applecross Western Australia, 6153
Applecross, WA - St David's Anglican
Address: 54 Simpson Street, Perth, Applecross Western Australia, 6153
The Foundation Stone was laid on 12 May 1957 by his Grace the Archbishop of Perth The Most Reverend R.W.H. Moline MC DD.
Applecross, WA - St Stephen's Uniting
Address: 2 McKenzie Road, Perth, Applecross Western Australia, 6153
The Foundation stone was laid on 11 December 1955 by the Reverend F.C. Norman Inwood. The site of the present church was first developed in the early 1950s and the original building is now the church hall.
Ararat West, VIC - Uniting
Address: Corner Banfield & Coad Streets, Ararat, Ararat West Victoria, 3377
Ararat, VIC - Church of Immaculate Conception Catholic
Address: 304 Barkley Street, Ararat, Victoria, 3377
There are three St Mary's in Ararat. The first was dedicated by Fr Goold in 1868. The second was dedicated by Bishop Moore in 1889 while the third was dedicated in 1928 by Bishop Foley. The Immaculate Conception Parish Ararat was established in 1858 by Bishop James Alipius Goold OSA of Melbourne. In 1871 at the request of Fr Hogan a Mr…
Ararat, VIC - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1857
Address: 32 View Point Street, Ararat, Victoria, 3377
In October 1857, there were meetings in Ararat to work towards having a resident clergyman and school building (which could also be used for public worship.) By mid October 1857 saw the arrival of Rev'd Philip Homan as the resident clergyman to Ararat and district. In September 1863 the Rev'd Homan wrote to the Diocesan Architect to…
Ararat, VIC - St Andrews Uniting
Year Built: 1858
Address: Corner King Street & Ararat Pomonal Road, Ararat, Victoria, 3377
Formerly a Presbyterian Church that was first considered at a meeting on 16 June 1858 with Mr Robert Allan, being the first Secretary. On 10 September 1858 the first service was held under the leadership of Dr Cairns.* On 10 February 1859 the Church was opened under the stewardship of Rev William MackIntosh. The debt for the church and…
Ardross, WA - St Benedict's Catholic
Address: 115 Ardross Street, Ardross, Western Australia, 6153
Armadale, VIC - Baptist
Year Built: 1898
Address: 88 Kooyong Road, Melbourne, Armadale Victoria, 3143
The Foundation stone was laid on 20 July 1898 by Mrs Westmore G. Stephens. The Architect was Sydney Smith and Ogg and the builder was A Parker. It was designed in an advanced Romanesque style in red brick with stucco dressings, dark brick diapering, chequerboard gable treatment and fleche on the roof ridge. The building was later linked…
Armadale, VIC - Holy Advent Anglican
Year Built: 1910
Address: 5 St Georges Road, Melbourne, Armadale Victoria, 3143
The Foundation stone was laid on 23 April 1910 by the Archbishop of Melbourne.
Armadale, VIC - Uniting
Address: Corner Kooyong & Clarendon Streets, Melbourne, Armadale Victoria, 3143
Ashbourne, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1891
Address: Main Road, Ashbourne, South Australia, 5157
The Church was formerly a Wesleyan Methodist church. It was built in 1891.
Ashgrove West, QLD - Uniting
Address: Corner Glory & Waterworks Streets, Brisbane, Ashgrove West Queensland, 4060
Ashgrove, QLD - St Finbarr's Catholic
Year Built: 1955
Address: 202 Waterworks Road, Brisbane, Ashgrove Queensland, 4060
The Foundation stone was laid on 25 September 1955 by the Most Reverend J. Duhig Archbishop of Brisbane.
Ashgrove, QLD - St Paul's Anglican
Address: 286 Waterworks Road, Brisbane, Ashgrove Queensland, 4060
Ashgrove, QLD - The Grove Uniting
Year Built: 1961
Address: 22 Ashgrove Avenue, Brisbane, Ashgrove Queensland, 4060
Formerly a Methodist church the foundation stone was laid on 8 October 1961 by the Reverend J. Tainton. The church is now closed.
Aspley, QLD - Uniting
Address: 734 Robinson Road, Aspley, Queensland, 4034
Formelry a Methodist church.
Auburn, SA - Our Lady of Peace Catholic
Year Built: 1866
Address: Elder Street, Auburn, South Australia, 5451
A former Wesleyan church this Gothic Revival church was built in 1866 by Joseph Meller and Scott. Constructed from Auburn bluestone it has symbolic pillars capped with open bible design, stone cuts with fine lines. The building was later used as a Sunday School when the Wesleyans and Methodists merged until it was sold to the Catholic…
Auburn, SA - St John's Anglican
Year Built: 1862
Address: 17 St Vincent Street, Auburn, South Australia, 5451
A Gothic Revival church constructed form Auburn bluestone with quoins and dressings of Watervale sandstone it was built by Pike and Dale in 1862. Joseph Meller and James Scott cut the stone and Joseph Jones was one of the stone masons employed on this project. The roof is of Welsh slate while the steps are of Mintaro slate. The Hall was…
Auburn, SA - St John's Lutheran
Year Built: 1860
Address: Curling Street, , Auburn South Australia, 5451
The Church was formerly a primitive Methodist church. Made of stone with bluestone quoins and dressings it was built by Joseph Meller in 1869 on part of an Aboriginal corroboree ground. After church union it was used as a Sunday school then sold in 1889 to the Orange Lodge a protestant group of Irish background. Purchased in 1927 by…
Auburn, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1861
Address: Main North Road, Auburn, South Australia, 5451
Opened in 1861 this former Bible Christian Chapel was built by Joseph Meller. The building is of Auburn bluestone and Watervale sandstone. William Threadgold was the carpenter. The first services were holed in a blacksmiths shop in 1850. The Church is of simply gabled hall with rather austere wall surfaces relieved by Romanesque derived…
Auburn, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1840
Address: 81 Oxley Roadd, Hawthorn, Auburn, Victoria, 3123
Between the 1840s and 1880's the Hawthorn Circuit occupied and subsequently outgrew a number of buildings until in 1886 a new larger, site was selected on the corner of Oxley Road and Hepburn Street. Originally a Wesleyan church the building was constructed in the Lombardic Romanesque style. The architect was Alfred Dunn and the…
Auchenflower, QLD - St Albans the Martyr Anglican
Address: 395 Milton Road, Brisbane, Auchenflower Queensland, 4066
The Foundation stone for the original church was laid on 22 April 1923 by the Archbishop of Brisbane Dr Sharp. In 1923 when the church was first commenced services were held in a local school room until the new church was opened on 18 November 1923. The church closed in 2015 and was placed on the market to sell the building.
Avenel, VIC - St Mary's Catholic
Address: Corner Queen & Plummer Streets, Avenel, Victoria, 3664
Avenel, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1886
Address: Queen Street, Avenel, Victoria, 3664
Originally a Wesleyan Methodist church built in 1886. A meeting of the building commit was held in Mr Vearings Saw Mill on 6 March 1886. It was decided to accept the tender of Mr Shatlock. By May 1886 the rear windows were being installed and anew font door had been order. In the same year Mr Graham bought the old church for 11 pounds.…
Avoca, VIC - St John the Devine Anglican
Address: Corner Russell & Barnett Streets, Avoca, Victoria, 3467