Woollahra, NSW - All Saints' Anglican
Year Built: 1876
Denomination: Anglican
Saint: All Saints
Address: 85 Ocean Street, Woollahra, New South Wales, 2025
Architect: Edmund Blacket
Architectural Style: Gothic Revival
Last Updated: 03/04/2024
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History and Architecture:
Architect was Edmund Blacket and construction took place between 1876 and 1882. The Church was mainly paid for by Henry Mort, the brother of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, as a thanksgiving for the rescue of his wife and child from shipwreak in 1865; as a memorial to his wife, Maria, who died in 1873; and as a church for his clergyman son.
Constructed of sandstone masonry with an aisled nave, small transepts and the santuaryin an apse at the East end . The roof structure comprises timber hammer beam trusses, purlins, common rafters, boarding and slates. The west end and stub tower are later additions to the building.
The first stage of All Saints Church was opened on January 8, 1876, free of debt at a cost of about £5,300. Tenders were called for the completion of the building in 1880 which was finished late in 1882. The main builder was Robert Kirkham who built a number of Blacket buildings, including St. Stephen's, Newtown, the Central Tower of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, The Sydney Industrial Blind Insitute, Boomerang Street, and the Pitt Street Store of John Macintosh & Sons.
Clergy:
This list may not contain every serving cleric, past or present, for this church.
Further submissions welcomed.
| Years | Name | Annotation | D.o.B | D.o.D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 - 1914 | Rev Henry Wallace Mort | 1847 | 1932 | |
| 1879 - 1879 | Rev William Browne | Curate | 1851 | 1884 |
| 1879 - 1881 | Rev Randolph John Ross - Edwards | Curate | 1853 | 1933 |
| 1882 - | Rev Joshua Spicer Wood | 1828 | 1884 | |
| 1884 - 1886 | Rev George North Ash | Locum | 1848 | 1926 |
| 1888 - 1891 | Rev Henry Alexander Woodd | Curate | 1865 | 1954 |
| 1895 - 1901 | Rev Herbert Claud Vindin | Curate | 1863 | 1919 |
| 1902 - 1906 | Rev Ross James Auchinleck | Curate | 1855 | 1925 |
| 1906 - 1906 | Mr Edwin Fisher Johnson | Lay Reader | 1866 | 1928 |
| 1906 - 1908 | Rev Alexander Wilhelm Schapira | Curate | 1850 | 1915 |
| 1909 - 1910 | Rev William Cowan | 1865 | 1915 | |
| 1914 - 1942 | Rev William Leslie Langley | 1875 | 1952 | |
| 1915 - 1916 | Rev John Newton Stephen | Curate with Edgecliff | 1883 | 1973 |
| 1916 - 1924 | Rev Edwin Shipley | Curate with Edgecliffe | 1884 | 1950 |
| 1924 - 1925 | Rev Charles Edward Adams | Curate | 1888 | 1954 |
| 1926 - 1942 | Rev Alfred Henry Gallop | Curate | 1887 | 1973 |
| 1935 - 1938 | Rev George Thorold Earp | Curate | 1905 | 1970 |
| 1938 - 1939 | Rev Charles Williams Gumbley | Locum | 1891 | 1971 |
| 1942 - | Rev Alfred Henry Gallop | Locum | 1887 | 1973 |
| 1942 - | Rev Clive Andrew Goodwin | Honorary Curate | 1908 | 1981 |
| 1942 - 1942 | Rev George Arnold Conolly | 1900 | 1964 | |
| 1957 - 1957 | Rev Oliver Tristram Cordell | Curate | 1900 | 1981 |
| 1964 - 1964 | Rev Charles Thomas Kenderdine | Locum | 1896 | 1971 |
| 1964 - 1975 | Rev Eric George Mortley | 1913 | 1992 |
Organ:
The organ in All Saints is one of three 3-manual instruments built by Messrs Forster and Andrews of Hull ,England between 1881 and 1884 for buildings designed by Edmund Blacket. The first was for the University of Sydney(1881),the second All Saints Woollahra and then S. Saviour's Anglican Cathedral, Goulburn (1884).
For a complete description and photos click here.
Source:
1. Cable Clerical Index with permission.
2. Australian Heritage Database
3. Organ Music Society of Sydney with permission.