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Year built: between 1881 and 1890
Freemantle, WA - Scot's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1890
Address: Corner Norfolk & South Tce, , Freemantle Western Australia, 2795
The church is constructed from ashlar limestone with red-brick quoins on the buttresses and window edges. The steeply pitched roof is constructed from timber originally with jarrah shingles but most recently with terra cotta tiles. When originally built the church consisted of a nave and an aisle on the north western side; the vestry is…
Freestone, QLD - St Luke's Anglican
Year Built: 1883
Address: Upper Freestone Road, , Freestone Queensland, 4370
On June 5th 1883, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge based in London, made a grant of £20 towards the cost of constructing a wooden Church at Freestone Creek, the total cost of this Church was £175. The land was donated by the Palmer family. Services prior to the building of St Lukes were held at the home of Mr Shelley. The…
Gerringong, NSW - Star of the Sea Catholic
Year Built: 1882
Address: 166 Fern Street, , Gerringong New South Wales, 2534
The Church was established in 1882. The Church was formally opened at about 11 a.m. on Sunday, August 6th, 1882, by his Grace the late Archbishop R. W. Vaughan, D.D. Reporting his arrival the "Kiama independent" said on August 25th, 1882: "The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Archbishop Vaughan, paid an official visit to Gerringong amid…
Gerringong, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1883
Address: 24 Fern Street, , Gerringong New South Wales, 2534
In 1852, Michael Hindmarsh gave land to build a Church. In 1854 a timber Free Presbyterian Church along with a Manse (donated by Alexander & David Berry) were constructed by Thomas Day. On 2nd Sept. 1861, a meeting of Parishioners voted to join the Congregational Church. In 1882 a Committee was set up to build a stone Church. The…
Gladesville, NSW - GladesHill Presbyterian
Year Built: 1889
Address: 2 Pittwater Road, , Gladesville New South Wales, 2111
In November 1887 preparations were commenced to build a church, the site was donated by Mrs Harriet Miller. The total cost of the building was £1384.0.0. On Saturday July 6,1889, the church was opened by the Right Reverend, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the Colony of New South Wales, The Reverend Archibald Gilchrist, MA,…
Grafton, NSW - St Andrew's Presbyterian
Year Built: 1886
Address: 116 Oliver Street, , Grafton New South Wales, 2460
The Church dimensions are 64ft. 6in. in length x 36ft. in width. The foundations were concrete, 4ft. wide and 2ft. 9in. thick. The walls are of brick. 24ft. in height averageing 18in, cemented inside and out. having 2 rows of galvanised loop iron built in every 8th course, with 6 buttresses on each side projecting 18in. beyond the walls.…
Grange, SA - St Agnes Anglican
Year Built: 1885
Address: 200 Military Road, , Grange South Australia, 5022
The original foundation stone was laid by the Bishop on August 1 1885. The Jubilee Foundation stone was laid by the Very Reverend Dean Young on 15 September 1936.
Grange, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1881
Address: Beach Street, , Grange South Australia, 5022
The Foundation stone was laid on 9 November 1880 by Mrs C Fowler.
Gulgong, NSW - St John the Baptist Catholic
Year Built: 1885
Address: Bayly Street, , Gulgong New South Wales, 2853
The Church was built in 1885 at a cost of £2250. The design is Flemish bonding on red brickwork. It replaced an earlier Catholic Church which was built during the town's first goldrush.
Gunbar, NSW - Uniting
Year Built: 1884
Formerly a Presbyterian church, the first church was located just north of its current location however due to swampy water it was later relocated. It was built in 1884. Though nominally Presbyterian, services by Anglican and Methodist ministers were occasionally also held at the church. By 1933 it was decided to build a new church of…
Gundagai, NSW - St Patrick's Catholic
Year Built: 1885
Address: 121 Sheridan Street, Gundagai, New South Wales, 2722
The church was built in 1885 which replaced an 1859 church opened by Rev. Michael McAlroy. The church is of neo-gothic style. The architect EC Manfred studied under Edmund Blacket who also designed the Church of England in Tumut, and the St Andrew’s Cathedral, George Street Sydney.
Gundaroo, NSW - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1881
Address: Corner Harp & Morning Street, , Gundaroo New South Wales, 2620
Established in 1881.
Hawthorn, VIC - Augustine Congregational (former)
Year Built: 1881
Address: 500 Burwood Road, , Hawthorn Victoria, 3122
Built in 1881 the church was opened on 26 February. It was sold around 2003 and is now a Commercial enterprise.
Hawthorn, VIC - St Columb's Anglican
Year Built: 1883
Address: 5 St Columbs Street, , Hawthorn Victoria, 3122
The Church was built in 1882 to 1883 to the design of George Wharton, completed to the designs of H W & F B Tomplins in 1907 through the completion of the nave and addition of transepts, chancel, organ-chamber and vestry, although without the projected tower and spire. A Memorial stone reads, " This memorial stone was laid by The Hon…
Herberton, QLD - Holy Trinity Anglican
Year Built: 1889
Address: 38 Broadway, , Herberton Queensland, 4887
The first Church of England incumbent in Herberton was the Reverend G. White, who arrived in 1887. The contractor for the work was H Petersen and the completed church was dedicated on Trinity Sunday, 30 June 1889. It was a simple rectangular building with a small entry porch on the western end.In 1907 a vestry was built and in 1919 a new…
Hobart, TAS - Baptist
Year Built: 1889
Address: 284 Elizabeth Street, , Hobart Tasmania, 7000
The original Tabernacle on this site was constructed in 1883 and took just six days. It was cobbled together from packing cases, old timber and tin with salvaged iron beams as supports. In 1884 the foundation stone was laid for a new building to be used as a church. Later it became tine Sunday School when the larger Tabernacle was…
Hobart, TAS - St David's Mission Anglican
Year Built: 1884
Address: 7 Campbell Street, , Hobart Tasmania, 7000
The foundation stone of St. David’s Mission chapel was laid on the 24th of November 1884 by the Bishop of Tasmania, Rev. Dr. Daniel Fox Sandford. The design of the church was entrusted to Mr H Hunter, architect of Macquarie Street who prepared plans for a building to cost £1,500. In basic Gothic style and built of brick with stone…
Holbrook, NSW - St Paul's Anglican
Year Built: 1887
Address: Young Street, , Holbrook New South Wales, 2644
Original built in 1887 the church was opened in 1887. A Sanctuary was added in 1967. Other alterations took place in 1958 and 1964. The Rev. Julius Scott took charge early in 1884, and appears to have been the first occupant of the Parsonage. He must have been a capable man and of strong personality, for it was he who had largely…
Horsham, VIC - Church of Christ
Year Built: 1887
Address: Corner Urquhart & Baillie Streets, , Horsham Victoria, 3400
The first service was held on 30 January 1887 by Mr D. W. Little in the Horsham Temperance Hall. Only 6 locals attended however by the evening service more than a dozen showed up. During the first three months thirteen baptisms had been carried out. Until 1915 only local men including Mr Butler, Spicer and Millar, carried out conducing…
Hunters Hill, NSW - All Saints' Anglican
Year Built: 1888
Address: 2 Ambrose Street, , Hunters Hill New South Wales, 2110
A large conventional Gothic Revival stone Church of four bays and chancel (fifth bay) and narthex with western front added in 1938. Walls of rugged quarry faced sandstone with dressed window surrounds. Feature of the interior is the chancel arch, a beautiful sweep of stone supported on carved corbels which extend out as buttresses. It was…
Hurstville, NSW - St Michael's Catholic
Year Built: 1885
Address: Croydon Road, , Hurstville New South Wales, 2220
On 18 December, 1850, Michael Gannon purchased 1905 acres from the estate of Captain John Townson whose grant of crown land took in the whole of the present suburbs of Hurstville and Carlton reaching almost to Kogarah Bay. Michael Gannon then transferred ownership of two acres to the Most Reverend John Bede Polding on 24 November, 1855…
Inverleigh, VIC - St Paul's Anglican
Year Built: 1889
Address: 23 - 41 High Street, , Inverleigh Victoria, 3321
A Foundation stone reads 1858 however it was re laid on 16 July 1889 by Mrs Moriarty. One of the few and earliest church building complexes in the Golden Plains Shire, comprising a distinctive and predominantly intact Victorian Early English Gothic styled church building, moderately intact Victorian styled Vicarage and rudimentary…
Jericho, TAS - St James Anglican
Year Built: 1888
The first services were held in a house. Church News of June 1883 states that St. James' was erected in 1826 or 27 but Church News of January 1947 says that building commenced in 1829. The church which was designed by John Lee Archer, was consecrated on the 10th of May, 1838. A plaque on the church reads, "The original church on this…
Jerilderie, NSW - St Andrew's Uniting
Year Built: 1884
Address: West Street, , Jerilderie New South Wales, 2716
The Church was formerly a Presbyterian church. The first Minister catering to the pastoral needs of the Protestant faith in this district was a Presbyterian Minister from Deniliquin, the Reverend Peter Mercer, from 2 December, 1863, to 10 August, 1869, under commission from the Castlemaine Presbytery in Victoria. Reverend Mercer's…
Junee, NSW - St Luke's Anglican
Year Built: 1889
Address: 26 Denison Street, , Junee New South Wales, 2663
The Church was built of brick with a shingle roof in 1889 from designs by A Blackett son of E.T. Blackett. In 1911 the chancel and vestries were added and from time to time other improvements have been effected. The Church was licenced on 11/11/1889 by Bishop Thomas. It was consecrated on 29/11/1898 by Bishop Barlow. The east window is a…
Kalbar, QLD - St John's Lutheran
Year Built: 1883
Address: 256 Teviotville Road, , Kalbar Queensland, 4309
Formerly Engelsburg in the Fassifern District. The German settlers who settled in and around Engelsburg at first attended services at Hoya but becuase of the distance and bad roads they organised themselves into a congregation.
Kangaroo Valley, NSW - St Joseph's Catholic
Year Built: 1888
Address: Moss Valley Road, , Kangaroo Valley New South Wales, 2577
This is the second structure on the site. The first, a wooden structure that seated about 30 people, was built in 1873. It was replaced in 1888 by the Church of St Joseph. Red Cedar cut and milled from the Valley was used for the pews. Fr Harnett rode a horse from Moss Vale to the Valley to conduct weekly Sunday Mass.
Kaniva, VIC - St Augustine's Anglican
Year Built: 1890
Address: Western Highway, , Kaniva Victoria, 3419
The first services were held on 28 June 1885 by H.F. Baker and in August by William Puttocks. By February 9 1889 the Nhill Advertiser newspaper carried an add calling for tenders for a stone and brick church.
Kempton, TAS - Presbyterian (Former)
Year Built: 1886
Address: 88 Main Street, , Kempton Tasmainia, 7030
The Church was put up for sale in 2024.
Kew, VIC - Chinese Baptist
Year Built: 1887
Address: 75a Cotham Road, , Kew Victoria, 3101
Originally a Presbyterian Church. Early in 1874 steps were taken by a number of the Presbyterian Church followers living in Kew to establish a charge, and services were commenced in the Town Hall in June, 1874. Among those who were leaders in the movement may be mentioned Hon. R. S. Anderson, Messrs. Thomas Austin, David Beath, W. H.…
Kew, VIC - Uniting
Year Built: 1887
Address: 23 Highbury Grove, , Kew Victoria, 3101
The Foundation stone was laid on 11 December 1889 by Reverend John Harcourt.
Kingston SE, SA - Uniting
Year Built: 1887
Address: Corner McFarlane & Holland Streets, , Kingston SE South Australia, 5275
The Church was opened in 1887.
Kirribilli, NSW - The Bridge Church
Year Built: 1884
Address: 5 Broughton Street, , Kirribilli New South Wales, 2061
Koo Wee Rup, VIC - St Andrews Presbyterian (Former)
Year Built: 1888
Address: 319 Rossiter Road, , Koo Wee Rup Victoria, 3981
Presbyterian services first took place at the home of Mrs Hudson, who owned the Grange. Locals donated money to purchase a Church building and the Wesleyan building from Cranbourne was obtained at a cost of 70 pounds. This church, designed by Architect Alfred Dunn, had been erected in 1888 and it was transported to Koo-Wee-Rup on a large…
Launceston, TAS - Gateway Baptist
Year Built: 1885
Address: 22 Wellington Street, , Launceston Tasmania, 7250
Work began on the Church building in 1883, it was to seat 1200 and was built under the guidance of Mr. F. Tyson (Architect) and J. T. Farmilo (Builder) at a cost of £17,500 . It was first called “The Temple” but its name was then changed to “The Memorial Church.” It was officially opened in July, 1885, when 1200 people are said to have…
Lavender Bay, NSW - St Francis Xavier Catholic
Year Built: 1881
Address: 17 McKenzie Street, , Lavender Bay New South Wales, 2060
The Church was built of sandstone with slate roof and copper spire in Gothic Revival style and was designed by William Wardell. Opened in 1881 as a Catholic school with four classrooms. Large stained glass window, some 20m x 5m, executed by Stephen Moore in 1964. Arched colonnade to Mackenzie Street added in 1964.
Leichhardt, NSW - All Souls Anglican
Year Built: 1882
Address: 126 Norton Street, , Leichhardt New South Wales, 3516
On January 7th, 1882 the original All Souls' church was opened for worship. The building and the land together cost 800. The church was designed by the architectural firm founded by Edmund T. Blacket, the great Anglican Church architect of the nineteenth century. Designed in the early English gothic style and built in brick masonry…
Light Pass, SA - Immanuel Lutheran
Year Built: 1886
Address: Immanuel Way, , Light Pass South Australia, 5355
The first church was opened and dedicated on 29 November 1886. The tower was erected in 1930. The Church hall was opened in 1949.
Lilydale, VIC - Methodist (Former)
Year Built: 1888
Address: Cnr Chapel & Castella Street, , Lilydale Victoria, 3140
A Foundation stone reads, " This memorial stone was laid by J. Ellingworth J.P. Feb 28th 1888".
Lilydale, VIC - St John the Baptist Anglican
Year Built: 1886
Address: Corner Jones & Castella Streets, , Lilydale Victoria, 3140
Land for an Anglican church was purchased in February 1867 and construction commenced the following year. The first service in the completed building was held in October 1868. The memorial stone was laid by Baroness De Pury on 25 September 1886.