Religion

Marble tablet erected by the congregation in memory of Alexander McBean an Elder of the church who died in 1907.  

Cypress trees planted at the front entry to the church by the Womens Guild commemorate Alice Kirke , their late president.  

Dr Alice Kirke was closely associated with the Presbyterian Church in North Queensland and at Ipswich and Wynnum. She practised in Ipswich for 20 years and acted as a consultant shortly before her death in 1941. She was the wife of the Reverend G.K. Kirke. 

Plaque commemorates the first Sexton of St Lukes Anglican Church

Plaque erected by the Women's Guild to Ann Youman a member of the congregation who died in 1937.

 Window erected by Sunday school pupils to the memory of Arabella Downing

Archbishop Daniel Mannix was ironically Chaplain-General of the Australian Armed Forces during World War One.

He came to Australia in 1912, having been specifically selected by the incumbent, Archbishop Carr, as a useful weapon in redressing Catholic grievances. Archbishop Mannix was one of the most vocal church leaders, and was outspoken on the issues of Irish nationalism, Communism and the education system. He was the Prime Minister’s main opponent on conscription during World War One.

Originally known as the Mortuary Chapel, the Holy Souls Chapel was dedicated to the memory of Archbishop Goold, who laid the first stone in 1880. Archbishop Goold is buried beneath the chapel and a brass memorial plaque marks his resting place.

The central tower of St Patricks was completed , up to its first stage, as a memorial to Bishop Goold's escaping an assassination atttempt in Brighton in 1882. 

Memorial to Archbishop Guildford Young who in 1955, became archbishop of Hobart.

Aged thirty-one when he became a bishop, he relied on his commanding presence and the clergy’s ingrained respect for authority to see him through. When he n

Rose window in Cathedral and Transepts is a memorial to Archbishop Guildford Young who died in 1988. 

He was ordained a priest in Rome on 3rd June, 1939, after a brilliant academic career at Propaganda Fide College. Returning to Australia he was appointed secretary to the Apostolic Delegation for a short time until he was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Archbishop McGuire of Canberra-Goulburn in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, on 8th September, 1948.

He was translated to Hobart as Coadjutor in November 1954, and succeeded to the See on the resignation of Archbishop Tweedy in September the following year.  He died in 1988. 

Window erected by his congregation commemorates the labours of the Archbishop of Sydney towards completing St. Mary`s Cathedral. He was the fourth Archbishop of Sydney.

Archbiship Kelly succeeded to the See of Sydney on 16 August 1911 on the death of Cardinal Moran. Kelly continued his crusade for temperance. Fund-raising for schools was undertaken by Kelly, and it was estimated £12,000,000 was spent on scholastic and church properties from the time of Kelly's arrival in Sydney until his death. St Mary's Cathedral was completed in 1928 and statues of Kelly and Moran stand in the main portal.

Statue erected in 1933 to commemorate the 80th birthday of the Archbishop, the completion of the Cathedral and the celebration of the 29th International Eucharistic Conference. The bronze figure of Archbishop Kelly was sculted by Sir Bertram Mackennal and cast by Alfred Turner on Mackennal's death.

Michael Kelly (13 February 1850 – 8 March 1940) was an Australian Roman Catholic clergyman, the fourth Archbishop of Sydney. Kelly succeeded to the See of Sydney on 16 August 1911 on the death of Cardinal Moran. Kelly continued his crusade for temperance. Fund-raising for schools was undertaken by Kelly, and it was estimated £12,000,000 was spent on scholastic and church properties from the time of Kelly's arrival in Sydney until his death. St Mary's Cathedral was completed in 1928 and statues of Kelly and Moran stand in the main portal.

 

Window erected by public subscription commemorates the second Archbishop of Sydney (1877-1883).

Roger Bede Vaughan became Archbishop of Sydney on the death of Archbishop Polding, on 16 March 1877. He then resigned the rectorship of St John's College which he had taken over in 1874, but his interest in this college never flagged. He spoke vigorously on the education question, but his words had little effect on parliament. In 1880 Henry Parkes passed an education act under which government aid to denominational education ceased at the end of 1882. Vaughan's views on this question may be found in his Pastorals and Speeches on Education, which appeared in Sydney in 1880.

Archbishop Vaughan died in England in 1883 and was buried there in the family vault . His remains were moved to Belmont in 1887 and finally reburied in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney in August 1946.

Memorial tablet unveiled on the anniversary of his death to the memory of  William Saumarez Smith (14 January 1836 – 18 April 1909) Anglican Archbishop of Sydney.

Saumarez Smith  was consecrated bishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia at St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 24 June 1890, and became Archbishop in 1897. At Sydney his episcopate was notable mainly for a great increase in missionary work, and the home mission fund was also established. 

Altar in the church commemorates forty-five years of service to the church by Archdeacon Beamish.

 Obelisk and the naming of  Mount Boyce dedicated to Archdeacon Boyce (1844-1931). 

Boyce was a missioner on the Darling (described in his Our Church on the River Darling, Sydney, 1910), a builder of churches, a champion of denominational education (on which he later wrote pamphlets) an advocate of inter-church co-operation, and a keen member of the diocesan synod.

Boyce was stationed in western New South Wales, soon to be the diocese of Bathurst and returned to Sydney in 1882. After two years in the industrial parish of St Bartholomew, Pyrmont, where he gained his first insight into slum housing, Boyce was appointed to St Paul's, Redfern. He remained there for forty-six years.

He became a canon of St Andrew's Cathedral in 1901 and archdeacon of West Sydney in 1910.

 

 A memorial window  in Christ Church Cathedral commemorates Charles Capel Greenway (1818-1905), archdeacon. 

Charles Capel Greenway  was active in the affairs of the diocese of Grafton and Armidale and in 1874-79 a member of the Diocesan Council. In 1878 his appointment to Grafton reflected Bishop James Turner's high opinion of his work. Much of the credit for building Christ Church Cathedral at Grafton was due to Greenway's persistent efforts. In May 1882 he was appointed the first archdeacon of Grafton , a position he would hold until he returned to Sydney in 1895. 

Memorial Stained Glass window "Suffer The Little Children " erected in memory of Archdeacon Brown and his wife.  This window was altered in 1965 to include the three heraldic crests.

In 1862 Brown was appointed archdeacon in succession to John Wollaston and in 1864 became incumbent of the Perth Cathedral. Though he was never dean, his family lived in the deanery at Perth until April 1874 when Brown became colonial chaplain at the Upper and Middle Swan. There he remained in charge of the parish, the boys' branch of the Perth Orphanage founded in 1868 and the Native and Half-caste Mission until 1895. Brown died of rheumatic fever on 9 October 1895.

Commemorates Archdeacon James Noone the first pastor of the church

The three central stained glass window and the high-backed Bishop's chair are  dedicated to the memory of Archdeacon James Ross. Ross was Archdeacon of  Armidale and worked tirelessly to secure Armidale as the location for the School. The last public occasion in which he took part was the laying of the Foundation Stone of  the Chapel. He died 11 days later on 16 September, 1902.

The memorial window ,erected by members of the parish and friends, in memory of Archdeacon Morse was placed in the chancel in 1909.

Archdeacon Morse was ordained to the priesthood in 1869 and was licensed to the district of Yankalilla.  He was rector of the parish for 33 years. In 1887 he was made Archdeacon of Adelaide and  died in 1901.

Memorial window to Archdeacon Morse. 

Archdeacon Morse was ordained to the priethood in 1869 and licensed to the district of Yankalilla. He was rector of the parish for 33 years and was Archdeacon of Adelaide in 1887. he died in 1901. 

The tower of St Andrew`s Church Lutwyche is a memorial to Archbishop Osborn who worked in the Diocese for over 48 years. 

Archdeacon osborn was ordained Deacon and Priest by the Archbishop of Brisbane in 1878 and served his first curacy at Warwick from 1878 to 1881. He also ministered at Roma and Gympie. He had a record of 30 years continuous service at  St Andrew's Lutwyche. 

Stain glass window erected by the congregation to the memory of Archdeacon R Barry Brown who was rector of the parish from 1891-1931. 

 Stain glass window in nave of church perpetuates the memory of Archdeacon Rothero who was vicar of the Holy Trinity Church from 1951 to 1969. 

Memorial tablet in tribute to Archdeacon Russell from the Dominican Community, Cabra

Memorial window erected by members of the church and friends to the memory of Archdeacon Samuel French who died in 1903. 

Archdeacon French came to South Australia as chaplain to Bishop Short , and from 1881-1893 was incumbent of Glenelg. In 1901 he was made Archdeacon of Adelaide. 

Memorial window in St Peter`s Cathedral in memory of Archdeacon French .

Samuel French was Archdeacon of St Peter`s Cathedral from 1901 until his unexpected death from a heart attack in 1903. He came to Australia in 1880 as chaplain to Bishop Short and from 1881 to 1893 he was incumbent of Glenelg. From 1893 to 1901 he was priest in charge of the missionary district of Petersburg with jamestown, Terowie and Caltowie and in 1896 he was created a canon. On his return to Adelaide as Archdeacon in 1901 he was also organising chaplain of the Bishop's Home Mission Society. 

Stained glass window commemorates Reverend T. P. Bennett who was once Vicar and Archdeacon of Warrnambool 

Clock in church tower dedicated to the memory of Archdeacon White. Archdeacon White came to Muswellbrook as a rector in 1860. 

Memorial tablet commemorates the long and faithful service of William Cowper (1778-1858), archdeacon.

Early in 1808 Rev. Samuel Marsden, in search of two additional chaplains, came to Cowper's parish in England and invited him to accept appointment. He was willing, and received a commission as an assistant chaplain in New South Wales at a salary of £260. He arrived in Sydney in 1809 and took up duties as minister of St Philip's Church, then being completed. For the first ten years of his ministry, he was the only clergyman permanently in Sydney.

He continued to direct the life of St Philip's parish almost to his death, but gave up the active duties of the parish to his assistants. He died on 6 July 1858 and was buried in the Devonshire Street cemetery. He was given a state funeral.

Memorial window erected by the congregation and friends commemorates Archibald Geike (1821-1898), Presbyterian minister. 

Archibald Geike arrived in Sydney in October 1861, joined the Synod of New South Wales and from Bombala ministered in the Monaro. Translated to Bowenfels in 1863, he went in 1866 to St Stephen's, Bathurst, where he had a notable ministry. He worked patiently, drawing on Canadian experience, for Presbyterian union and in 1864 was elected moderator of the General Synod which united the Synods of New South Wales and Eastern Australia preliminary to the final Presbyterian union in 1865.

He retired from the ministry on 17 December 1895 and in 1893-98 served on the Council of St Andrew's College, University of Sydney.

 

Memorial window in St Andrew's Chapel dedicated to Archibald Geike (1821-1898), Presbyterian minister.

In 1864  Geike was elected moderator of the General Synod which united the Synods of New South Wales and Eastern Australia preliminary to the final Presbyterian union in 1865.

He retired from the ministry on 17 December 1895 and in 1893-98 served on the Council of St Andrew's College, University of Sydney.

 

Porch erected to the memory of Arthur George Rix priest and rector of the parish for twenty five years. 

Marble tablet erected by the teachers and scholars of the Sabbath Schools in memory of their secretary for 10 years who died in 1852.

Garden of Remembrance commemorates Beatrice Mellow Reader , a generous benfactor and faithful parishioner of St Mary's Church.

The Beckenham Memorial Church and  tablet were erected in the memory of Reverend J Beckenham the founder of the church who died in 1916 at the age of 70. 

The foundation stone for St Luke's Hall was laid on the 28th May 1910 to the glory of God and in memory of Benjamin Glennie. The completed hall was opened on 11 April and dedicated on 15 May 1911 by the Archbishop of Brisbane at a cost of £1554.

The energetic Reverend Benjamin Glennie was appointed the first Incumbent for the Darling Downs in 1850. A parsonage was built at the "Springs" (Drayton) in 1851 but by then the focal point of activity on the Downs had swung some six kilometres northwards to an area known as 'The Swamp', later to become Toowoomba. Glennie approached his Bishop for permission to buy land for a church there. He envisioned four churches, each dedicated to one of the evangelists, in the four major towns of the Downs, St Matthew's at Drayton, St Mark's at Warwick, St John's in Dalby and St Luke's at Toowoomba. In 1854 he purchased two acres of land in Ruthven Street for £8/4/- at one of the first land sales held.

Stained glass window originally placed in St Stephen's Anglican Church. It was found under the old building and restored and relocated by the new Greek Orthodox Church.

Memorial Window commemorates Beryl Suthers a former church member who served in the Voluntary Aid Detachments in World War Two from 1941-1943. Beryl was an active member of the church from 1964 - 2003. 

The primary role of a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) member was that of nursing orderly in hospitals, carrying out menial but essential tasks - scrubbing floors, sweeping, dusting and cleaning bathrooms and other areas, dealing with bedpans, and washing patients. They were not employed in military hospitals, except as ward and pantry maids; rather, they worked in Red Cross convalescent and rest homes, canteens, and on troop trains.

VADs in the Second World War were given more medical training, but they were not fully qualified nurses. They worked in convalescent hospitals, on hospital ships and the blood bank as well as on the home front. In 1943, the government created the Australian Women's Auxiliary Service (AWAS) to control the large numbers of VADs employed by the military.

 Memorial panel under his coat of arms dedicated to the memory of Bishop Arthur Thomas.

Elected bishop of Adelaide (in succession to J. R. Harmer) by a panel of selectors in England, Thomas was consecrated in Westminster Abbey on 2 February 1906. He arrived in South Australia on 2 April and was enthroned in St Peter's Cathedral two days later. His episcopate was to span 34 years and 179 days, the longest, to then, of any Anglican in Australia. The diocese covered the whole State so that, in addition to the tasks of administration in Adelaide, the bishop had to do much travelling. He died in 1954. 

High altar in St Saviour`s Cathedral is a memorial to Bishop Christopher Barlow, the third Bishop of Goulburn. 

Christopher George Barlow (1858 – 30 August 1915)  was consecrated an Anglican bishop on 25 July 1891. He was translated to Goulburn in 1902, with his election on 28 January and installation on 23 April.  He died on 30 August 1915, shortly after retiring on 31 March. 

The Bishop’s Throne and Prayer Desk were given by the men of the parish as a memorial to the late Bishop Charles Murray, fourth Bishop of Riverina.

Bishop Murray was elected the 4th Bishop of Riverina in 1943 and was consecrated in St Andrew's Cathedral by His Grace, the Archbishop of Sydney on the Feast of the Purification 2nd February, 1944.

On the night of the 26th June 1950, the Bishop was returning from Perth in the A.N.A. Skymaster "Amana". Together with Dean Norman Blow of Newcastle, he had been conducting a Mission of Youth in the Diocese of Perth. Soon after departure, the airport lost radio contact with the aircraft, which crashed at 10:12pm. 28 people died instantly in the crash, including 23 passengers and five crew members. The one surviving passenger died five days later. 

The crash of the ANA Skymaster Amana remains the second worst commercial/civilian air disaster in Australian history and the worst in Western Australia's history.

Memorial tablet dedicated to Bishop D'Arcy Irvine (1862-1932).

Gerard Addington D'Arcy-Irvine was a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. He was ordained in 1885 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Stephen’s New Town, Sydney  and St John's Paramatta.  He was then an incumbent at St Matthew's Windsor, Sts Simon and Jude's Bowral, St Mark 's Wollongong, Holy Trinity, Sydney and St Michael’s Vaucluse and Rose Bay. In 1908 he became Archdeacon of Cumberland and in 1917 vicar general of the Sydney diocese. He was elevated to the Episcopate in 1926 and died on 18 April 1932.

St Christopher's Chapel also known as the Children`s Chapel is a memorial to Bishop George Merrick Long who was Bishop of Newcastle from 1928-1930. The wood in the Chapel is Queensland silky oak and was carved locally. The reredos depicts two scenes from the life of St Christopher and was painted by the English Artist, Daphne Allen.

In December 1927 Long was elected bishop of Newcastle and enthroned on 1 May 1928. He had a sensitive knowledge of economic and industrial issues and was popular with the mining unions on the Newcastle coalfields. He had retained his connexion with the Australian Military Forces where he was chaplain and honorary captain in World War 1 and in 1929 was appointed chaplain-general. In March 1930 he sailed for England to attend the Lambeth Conference in London, but suffered a cerebral haemorrhage after its opening session and died on 9 July in St Thomas's Hospital. His requiem was celebrated by Archbishop Cosmo Lang before 300 bishops, and his ashes were brought back to New South Wales and placed in All Saints Cathedral, Bathurst. St Christopher's chapel in Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, is his memorial, and a window of its Tyrrell chapel contains his portrait.

 

Stain Glass Window commemorates the third Bishop of Newcastle. St James Church was the parish church for the Bishops of Newcastle Diocese.

George Henry Stanton, DD was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. Appointed the inaugural Bishop of North Queensland in 1878, he was translated to Newcastle, NSW in 1891 and died in post on 5 December 1905.

Crucifix dedicated to Bishop White.

 In August 1900,  the largest diocese in the world came into being. The Diocese of Carpentaria in Thursday 19 February 1942 included North Queensland, the Torres Strait Islands and the Northern Territory. Bishop Gilbert White was consecrated as its first bishop and, in February 1901, he made his first visit to Palmerston and the Territory.

Statue commemorates Bishop Hale who founded the Hale School in 1858.

Hale School is the oldest private boys' school in Western Australia. The school was originally situated at the Cloisters on St Georges Terrace in Perth, relocating in 1914 to West Perth, and in 1961 to its current premises in Wembley Downs. The Right Reverend Dr. Matthew Blagden Hale (18 June 1811 – 3 April 1895) was the first Bishop of Perth, and later Bishop of Brisbane. Matthew Hale was Bishop of Perth until 1875, whereupon he became Bishop of Brisbane until 1885. He eventually returned to England, retiring at Clifton, Bristol where he died on April 3, 1895.

Memorial plaque commemorates the second Bishop of Perth Bishop Parry. Parry was Bishop of St Georges from 1876 to 1893.

Parry as bishop was described as saintly, scholarly and idealistic, traits which shaped his episcopate. From his arrival in the transition years that led to responsible government, the scope of his work was curtailed by primitive transport and stringent finance which were not ameliorated until the gold rush in the time of his successor. His main work was to strengthen church organization, but his primary interest was in the spiritual development of his people. Twenty more ecclesiastical buildings, increased local contributions, a team of clergy more than doubled, and the cathedral he built all stand as memorials of his work in Western Australia

Window erected in 1876 by Reverend P. S. Bailey is dedicated to Bishop John Coleridge Patteson. 

John Coleridge Patteson (1 April 1827 - 20 September 1871) was an Anglican bishop and martyr. He was ordained in 1853 in the Church of England. His old tutor at Eton, George Augustus Selwyn, was the first Bishop of New Zealand, and he persuaded Patteson to become a missionary to the South Seas.

In 1855 Patteson set out to found the Melanesian Mission. He founded a college on Norfolk Island for native boys, toured the islands on the ship Southern Cross, and learned many of the local languages. In 1861 he was made Bishop of Melanesia.

On 20 September 1871 he was murdered on the island of Nukapu in the Solomon Islands, where he had landed alone. The explanation of his death at the time was that natives killed him as revenge for the abduction of some natives by illegal labour recruiters months earlier. These recruiters, known as "blackbirders", were considered to be virtually slave traders by members of the mission, as they enticed or abducted youths to work on plantations.

The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Christ is a gift of the Society of

Mary in memory of Bishop John Frewer, one time Bishop of the North West Diocese.

The Rt Rev John Frewer was an Australian Bishop for over three decades in the mid 20th century.  Born on 1 November 1863 at Fulletby in Lincolnshire, he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Lincoln Theological College.  Ordained in 1909 after a Curacy in Boston he emigrated to Australia where he became Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Bunbury-eventually becoming a Canon of the area. A member of the Brotherhood of St Boniface he was their Warden  from 1919 until his elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 7 December 1974.

Memorial plaque commemorates the first Bishop of Perth, Matthew Hale.  

Bishop Hale was opposed to the erection of a cathedral due to the fact that Perth was in his time a very small town and he felt strongly that they would not be in a position to erect a worthy building.  The old Cathedral was opened in 1845 and served until 1888 when the present St Georges Cathedral was opened.   Bishop Hale was transferred to Brisbane, Queensland in 1875.

The stained glass windows in the east end of the sanctuary of St Paul's Cathedral, Rockhampton are a memorial to Nathaniel Dawes (1843-1910), Anglican bishop. 

Dawes was consecrated bishop on 1 May 1889 in St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, by Archbishop Alfred Barry.  He was the first Anglican bishop to be consecrated in Australia. Appointed coadjutor bishop of Brisbane, he was first given pastoral oversight of the Darling Downs and later of Rockhampton where he became honorary rector of St Paul's Church. On 12 August 1892 he was elected first bishop of the new diocese of Rockhampton and was enthroned in St Paul's Church which he took for his cathedral.

The exquisite new restored Hardman Studio window, is one of the most important nineteenth century windows in Australia.  It was designed by the leading English stained glass maker of the period, John Hardman and Co, Birmingham. The window is a memorial to Robert William Willson (1794–1866), the first Bishop of Hobart Town, and his Vicar-General, William Hall (1807–66). It is in the style of a fourteenth century Gothic window; the five lancets depict pivotal scenes from the Gospel and the tracery at the top of the window details heavenly images. A clear glass protector has been installed on the outside of the window to protect it from wind load, water damage, hailstones, and accidental breakage.

Then the newly-consecrated bishop of Hobart, Dr Robert Willson, came to London appealing for volunteer missionaries, and Hall promptly offered his services. With the bishop's party he reached Hobart Town in May 1844. Until the cessation of transportation nine years later,  Dr Willson devoted most of his attention to the cause of reform among prisoners of the Crown and the mentally ill. He therefore made Hall his vicar-general with control of diocesan administration, the vicar had wide powers which he knew how to use.

The pair of windows between the chapel and the confessionals are scenes from the life of St Joseph and were installed in 1871. One is in memory of Bishop Willson and his Vicar General, Dr William Hall, who both died in 1866 and includes their portraits. There is also a memorial window in St Mary's .

In 1842 Hobart Town was created a diocese separate from New South Wales. Willson was chosen as its chief pastor and consecrated at Birmingham on 28 October. With four missionaries chosen in England he arrived on 11 May 1844 to find two priests already in the island, churches at Richmond, Hobart and Launceston, and himself the ruler of a kingdom within a kingdom: a penal department and a body of free settlers. For the first ten years he gave his personal services almost exclusively to the penal abodes. 

He therefore made Hall his vicar-general. With control of diocesan administration, the vicar had wide powers which he knew how to use.

Although the austere vicar-general made few intimate friends among his flock, he was never idle, for he attempted too much by himself. His administration for twenty-two years was very efficient. As the years rolled by a steady growth of affection and appreciation effaced the memory of uneasy beginnings until all Catholics, devout and lax, learned and unlettered, looked to Father Hall for advice and comfort.

Memorial Chapel dedicated to the first Bishop.

St Saviour's became the pro-cathedral for the Diocese of Goulburn in April 1864, when Bishop Mesac Thomas arrived to take charge of his diocese. Bishop Thomas’s diocese at first comprised nearly one quarter of the State of New South Wales.

From 1871, as the diocese was beginning to get on its feet, Bishop Thomas began to think positively about a cathedral. Here, and in England, he collected £37,000 of a total of £50,000 needed for the building. Construction of the Cathedral commenced in 1874 and was completed in 1884. 

Stained glass window dedicated to Bishop Turner. The centre panel was unveiled in March 1896 

Bishop Turner was nominated to the new see of Grafton and Armidale, New South Wales, and was consecrated in Westminster Abbey on 24 February 1869. With his wife Mary, he arrived in Sydney on 13 August in the Commissary and was installed at Armidale on 10 September. His see, equal in area to England and Wales, had a nominal Anglican population of about 25,000 and ten clergymen, mostly itinerant. He convened the first diocesan synod in May 1873 and in 1881 divided his diocese into two archdeaconries. The decision enabled the Grafton section to deal with some of its own affairs, but the duality expressed in the title of his diocese constituted a major problem throughout his episcopate. St Peter`s Cathedral, Armidale (1875) and Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton (1884) owe much to Turner`s continuing interest in architecture, his opposition to pretentiousness and regard for `fitness and goodness` in church building.

The Lectern is a memorial to Bishop Tyrrell, who died in 1879.

William Tyrrell (31 January 1807 – 24 March 1879) was the first Anglican bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales. In 1847 he was offered and accepted the position of bishop of the newly-created see of Newcastle, New South Wales. He sailed on 18 September 1847 with two clergymen, seven candidates for ordination, a schoolmaster and schoolmistress, his housekeeper, gardener and groom, with the wife and children of his gardener, 20 in all, and arrived at Sydney on 16 January 1848.

The new diocese covered an area of more than 125,000 square miles (320,000 km2) and there were only 14 clergymen. Tyrrell rode over much of it, working unceasingly, yet carefully reserving time every day for study and private devotions.

 

Tribute to founder and patron of the Holy Trinity Scout Troop. Plaque contains the scouting emblem.

Commemorates the first vicar of the parish

Stained Glass Window commemorates William Tyrrell , the first Anglican Bishop of Newcastle. St James Church was once the parish church for the Bishops of Newcastle Diocese.

William Tyrrell (31 January 1807 – 24 March 1879) was the first Anglican bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales. In 1847 he was offered and accepted the position of bishop of the newly-created see of Newcastle, New South Wales. He sailed on 18 September 1847 with two clergymen, seven candidates for ordination, a schoolmaster and schoolmistress, his housekeeper, gardener and groom, with the wife and children of his gardener, 20 in all, and arrived at Sydney on 16 January 1848.

The new diocese covered an area of more than 125,000 square miles (320,000 km2) and there were only 14 clergymen. Tyrrell rode over much of it, working unceasingly, yet carefully reserving time every day for study and private devotions.

Commemorates the founder of the Marist Brothers. The Marist Brothers came to Saint Gregory`s in 1962 under invitation from Father Green. They erected the sculpture and left the school in 1984.

Marcellin was ordained a priest in France in 1816. Marcellin and a group of other seminarians had discussed forming a religious order under the patronage of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In the Chapel of Fourviére above Lyons, the day after their ordination, they dedicated themselves to her as "The Society of Mary", commonly called the Marist Fathers. His whole life between 1817 and 1840 became a crusade of rescue for poor children. He would go to any lengths and make any efforts to try to improve their situation and so that they would be open to the unconditional love of God. In 1872, at the request of the Archbishop of Sydney, the first Brothers arrived in Australia to be involved in establishing schools in the colony. When Marcellin died on June 6 1840, the order had 48 establishments in France and 278 Brothers. Today there are 5,100 Brothers working in 80 countries. He was canonised a Saint by Pope John Paul II on April 18 1999.

Commemorates the founder of the Josephite Order and Australia`s first Catholic Saint

Plaque commemorates Brother James William Roberts.

Commemorates the controversial founder of the Bindoon Boys Town.

Brother Paul Francis Keaney, MBE, ISO, was born on October 5, 1888, in Ireland. In 1911 he migrated to Australia and in 1916 he became a Christian Brother. In 1924 he became headmaster at Clontarf Orphanage, and he later taught at Christian Brothers College, Perth, and Christian Brothers College, Fremantle.

His record as a disciplinarian has come under growing scrutiny after former students recalled his role as that of a brutal disciplinarian with an ungovernable temper, who neglected their education, exploited their labour and turned a blind eye to sexual misconduct by staff members.

Memorial window in memory of 50 years of service to the church.

Pulpit in church is a memorial for faithful service. Caleb Barry was a former bank manager in Blayney and stalwart of the Church of England.

Church and Hall commemorate Reverend Cameron and his wife. The church hall was dedicated to the memory of Mrs Christina Cameron on the 5th December 1923.

Reverend Cameron and his wife were much loved through the many decades of service they provided in the region at the edge of European settlement of New South Wales. Archibald Cameron was the pioneer Presbyterian Minister of New England, his first and only charge. Rev Cameron’s charge (the territory throughout which he provided pastoral care) covered a huge area between Tenterfield in the north, Guyra in the south, Inverell in the west and to the east it ran some 40-50 miles towards Grafton. He is said to have ridden thousands of miles each year preaching and providing the many other services, spiritual and otherwise, required of a bush minister. He officiated at many a marriage and christening at Wellingrove and, later, at Glen Innes. The Rev. A. Cameron was Minister from 1854 until his death on the 16th May 1905 at the age of 90 years.

Memorial tablet unveiled by the Archbishop of Sydney in 1929 to Arthur Edwin Bellingham, Canon of the Cathedral 1907 - 1927.

Canon Bellingham was responsible for the building of St Clement's in Marrickville and was its first Rector. 

Stain glass window erected by the parishioners to commemorate his ten years ministry in the parish. 

 Stain glass window commemorates the ministry of Canon Cakebread. 

Canon Cakebread was Rector of St Jude's Parish from 1912 until he died in 1939. In 1939, a meeting of parishioners and friends opened a memorial fund for a simple monument over his grave and a window in the church to commemorate his ministry. 

Stain glass window erected in appreciation of his services as Rector (1908-1935) and also marking the centenary of the parish of Scone (1840-1940). 

Memorial window paid for by subscription in memory of Canon Jenkyn.

Canon Jenkyn came to the diocese of Brisbane in 1899 and from that year until 1901 he was in charge of St Michael and All Angels Church, New Farm. From 1901 to 1907 he was rector of St Mark's Warwick before going to St Paul's Ipswich where he remainied until 1922. He died in 1926 after a long illness. 

Stain glass window erected by parishioners to the memory of Canon Pearce, Rector of the Parish, 1937-1949. 

 Plaque erected by the parishioners to the memory of the Canon Vicar of Lismore 1903-1917 who died in 1917 at the age of 62.

Canon Whyte entered the ministry in England and arrived in Ballarat in 1886 . He was Canon of St Andrews in Lismore for 14 years.

Marble tablet erected by parishioners to the memory of Canon Ewing who died on the 10th April 1899.

Canon Ewing was ordained in 1878 by Bishop Turner of the Diocese of Grafton and Armidale and was appointed to the curacy of Inverell where he served for 17 years. He was appointed to Lismore in 1895. He died aged 76 after contracting influenza .

Memorial window erected by the congregation to the memory of Canon Samuel Green who was rector of the parish from 1893 to 1904.

On May 4th, 1924 the Canon Jones Memorial Chapel was consecrated and opened by Archbishop Sharp at the East Brisbane Grammar School. The foundation stone had been laid on the 1st August 1923.

Canon Jones had been connected with the school from its beginning in Toowong in 1912, and was the first clergyman to visit the new school after its opening. Canon Jones was a pioneer of the Anglican Church in Queensland and was the first clergyman appointed to administer the spiritual needs of the people of Rockhampton. 

Stain glass window erected by the Old Boys of St Mark's Crescent School 1897.  

Canon Kemmis was appointed Rector of St Marks in 1864 and died in 1897 having spent 33 years at the parish. 

The marble chapel altar (blessed sacrament) was erected in memory of Canon Watkin, Rector for thirty-two years.

 Memorial tablet unveiled by the Archbishop of Sydney in 1929 in memory of Canon Hey Sharp , Canon of the Cathedral, 1884-1928. 

William Hey Sharp was Canon of the Cathedral for 44 years but he is best known as Warden of St Paul`s College within the University of Sydney. He was also Registrar and Bursar of the Australian College of Theology.

Stained glas window erected by public subscription.

John Henry Newman, C.O. (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890), also referred to as Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s. He left the Anglican church and converted to Roman Catholicism (1845), eventually being granted the rank of Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. His beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom.

Stained glass window erected by lifelong friend.

Patrick Francis Moran (1830–1911) was the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. After his death in 1911, aged 80, a quarter of a million people (the largest crowd ever to gather in Australia until that date) witnessed his funeral procession through the centre of Sydney. He is buried in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

Statue by Bertram Mackennal is outside the south entrance of St Mary's Cathedral.

Patrick Francis Moran (1830–1911) was the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. He was personally chosen and promoted by Pope Leo XIII to head the Archdiocese of Sydney — a clear policy departure from the previous English Benedictine incumbents (Polding, Vaughan) who were experiencing tension leading the predominantly Irish-Australian Catholics. Moran was appointed to Australia on the 25 January 1884 and arrived on 8 September 1884. He was created Cardinal-Priest on 27 July 1885 of the title of St Susanna. The new Irish-Australian cardinal made it his business to make his presence and leadership felt.

Over his episcopate, Moran consecrated 14 bishops (he was the principal consecrator of William Joseph Walsh, Michael Verdon, Patrick Vincent Dwyer, Armand Olier and also assisted in consecrating Patrick Clune, among others). He ordained nearly 500 priests, dedicated more than 5000 churches and professed more than 500 nuns. He made five journeys to Rome on church business between 1885 and 1903.

After his death in 1911, aged 80, a quarter of a million people (the largest crowd ever to gather in Australia until that date) witnessed his funeral procession through the centre of Sydney. He is buried in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

Commemorates the Croation martyr who was the Archbishop of Zagreb and the Primate of Croatia

In May 1943, Cardinal Stepinac openly criticised the Nazis and put his own life in danger. At the end of World War Two, Stepinac was found guilty of Nazi collaboration at a mock trial, by the communist government and was convicted and sentenced sixteen years` hard labour on October 11, 1946. He spent five years in the prison of Lepoglava, and in 1951, Tito`s government released him and confined him to the village of Krasic.

Even though he was forbidden by the government to resume his duties, Stepinac was named Cardinal by Pope Pius XII on January 12, 1953. Due to pain caused by the many illnesses he contracted while imprisoned, Cardinal Stepinac died in Krasic on February 10, 1960. In 1985, his trial prosecutor Jakov Blazevic admited publically that Cardinal Stepinac`s trial was entirely framed, and that Stepinac was tried only because he refused to sever thousand year old ties between Croatians and the Roman Catholic Church. On October 3, 1998 in Marija Bistrica, Pope John Paul II beatified Cardinal Stepinac, and referred to him as one of the outstanding figures of the Catholic Church.

Memorial hospital commemorates Carl Strehlow, Lutheran missionary.

Carl Friedrich Strehlow (23 December 1871 – 20 October 1922) was a German Lutheran missionary in outback Australia who headed the Finke River Mission in Hermannsburg, Northern Territory from 1894-1922. He learnt and documented the languages of the Arrernte and Luritja people, and published together with Moritz von Leonhardi a seven-volume work on their culture. His son, Ted Strehlow, continued this work

Rose garden commemorates Catherine McLean, a dedicated church worker

Tribute from the Dominican Community, Cabra

Memorial window commemorates Charles Frederick Garnsey (1828-1894), Church of England clergyman. 

In 1876 he became Canon Robert Allwood's assistant at St James's, Sydney. Much of the burden of a famous city church with a declining congregation and an ageing incumbent fell on Garnsey, and in April 1878 he became incumbent of Christ Church St Laurence. An energetic pastor, he founded the Guild of St Laurence, opened a mission room for the slum areas, maintained his large school after the withdrawal of state aid and served in many charitable organizations.

 

Memorial tablet dedicated by the Archbishop of Sydney in 1929 to Charles Harmor Rich who was Minor Canon of the Cathedral from 1868 to 1901.

The "Good Shepherd " window  removed from the South Essendon Methodist Church when it was being sold, and temporarily placed in storage. It was dedicated to the memory of Charles Henry Woods and was donated to the South Essendon Methodist Church by the Directors of R. J. Gilbertson and Co and dedicated by Rev. H. W. Frederick on September 17th 1933 as part of the South Essendon Methodist Jubilee Celebrations.

C. H. Woods served his church for 50 years and was the Superintendent of the South Essendon Methodist Sunday School for 45 years. He died on October 18th 1929. He laid the foundation stone of the Sunday School building.

The window was installed at St Johns on November 4th 1983.

Warden and trustee of St James Church.

Kemp was one of the colony`s leading Anglican laymen. He served on many church committees, both parochial and diocesan. He was for some time a churchwarden of Holy Trinity, Miller`s Point, and later when he moved his home to Macquarie Street of St James`s, King Street, then the principal Anglican church in Sydney. As a lay member of the Sydney Diocesan Committee, he took an active interest in the formation of new sees in New South Wales. He helped to found St Paul`s, the Anglican college within the University of Sydney in 1854 and later became a fellow.

Commemorates warden and trustee of the Parish.

Memorial plaque commemorates Charles Riley who became the first archbishop of Perth.

In 1894 Riley was appointed bishop of Perth, Western Australia, then the largest Anglican diocese in the world, with an area of 1,000,000 square miles (2,600,000 km2) and a scattered population of about 100,000. He was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey on 18 October 1894. It was realised that the diocese must be subdivided, but it was not until 1904 that it was found possible to establish the diocese of Bunbury. Other dioceses were subsequently founded in the north-west and the eastern goldfields, and Riley became archbishop of Perth in 1914.

Commemorates Charles Sturt`s role as church trustee

Memorial window commemorates Mrs Charlotte Waldock who was the wife of Doctor A.J. Waldock, the first minister of the church. She died as a result of injuries received when she fell on the steps of Central Baptist Church, Sydney

Commemorates Cheong Cheok Hong, missionary and social reformer .(1851 - 1928), first Superintendent of the Church of England Mission established here for the Chinese. He was born in the See Yap district, near Canton, China and arrived in Melbourne about 1863.

He attended Scotch College and qualified for matriculation at the University of Melbourne. In 1873 he joined the Presbyterian congregation at Napier Street, Fitzroy; the minister, Dr Robert Hamilton, was convener of a mission committee for work among the Chinese and ran a training seminary for catechists. In 1885 at the annual meeting of the Anglican Board of Missions, Cheong gave such a remarkable address that his transfer from the Presbyterians was sought and approved; with the sanction of Bishop Moorhouse he was appointed missionary superintendent for twelve months.

In addition to organizing the work of Chinese catechists throughout Victoria, he collected sufficient funds for building in Little Bourke Street a mission hall and training centre for Chinese evangelists

Plaque erected to commemorate 60 years of service as the church organist. 

Plaque commemorates Clements Langford who built the spires and towers of the cathedral 

Monument to Presbyterian Minister and teacher.

David Shearer was commissioned to establish the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia. He sailed from Gravesend with his wife and family in the Charlotte Padbury, arriving at Fremantle on 1 October 1879. His initial services were held in St George`s Hall, Perth, and later in the Working Men`s Institute. For the first four years his stipend was met by the colonial committees, enabling him to concentrate his efforts on acquiring land and building a church, opened in August 1882. That year he visited Sydney to attend the Third General Conference of the Presbyterian Churches of Australasia and collected nearly £600 for the Church in Western Australia. He brought Rev. Robert Hanlin from Scotland to establish Scots Church at Fremantle and pioneered Albany, Jarrahdale and Geraldton.

Memorial window in Baptist Church chapel in memory of Dayal Singh, church member, businessman and community minded citizen. 

After attending an open-air meeting conducted by John Ridley, a Baptist evangelist, in October 1929 at Lismore, Singh became a Christian. For three decades the Baptist Church benefited from his initiative and industry and at different times he served as deacon, treasurer and cemetery trustee. In 1955 he and his wife attended the Baptist World Congress in London.

In 1960  the large family house of his youth at 136 Orion Street, Lismore, became a rest home for the aged. He was a member of the Northern Rivers Aero Club, the Rotary Club of Lismore, and the North Coast National Agricultural and Industrial Society.

Stained glass window commemorates Deaconess Buchanan who was a missionary and teacher.

Seriously injured in a riding accident in 1888, Florence Buchanan was left permanently crippled. After teaching her Melanesian servants English and Bible stories, she later assumed responsibility for the fundamentalist non-denominational South Seas Evangelical Mission (also known as the Queensland Kanaka Mission). In addition she served as Queensland secretary of both the International Scripture Union and the Young Women's Christian Association, and maintained at her own expense a hostel for English migrant girls. She was ordained a deaconess on Thursday Island in 1908. She died of tuberculosis in St Helen's Methodist Hospital on 30 December 1913 at the age of 52 and was buried in Toowong cemetery. Her death was profoundly mourned throughout the Torres Strait.

 

Bell is a tribute to the English priest Charles Lovat who was, practically speaking, the first permanent priest at Yass.

Rev Charles Lovat (Pastor of Yass 1839-1849) came, with excellent testimonials to Sydney on the 4th December 1837 on the ship "Hindoo". There he was appointed President of St Mary's College seminary. Bishop Polding called Fr. Lovat to accompany him on some missionary tours to the interior of the colony and he became known for a valuable ministry about Bathurst. He was with Bishop Polding in August 1838 when the foundation stone of St Augustine's Yass was laid. Fr Lovat was the inspiration behind the building of the original portion of old St Augustine's Church between1840-1844. Father Lovat died in 1858.

When Reverend McAlroy erected a tower in 1859 on the old St Augustine`s church built by Lovat, he initiated the idea of a bell, but the completion of the project was left to his successor Dean Hanly. When the new tower was erected in Meehan Street outside the new church in 1956, the bell was sent for repairs and erected about 1960.

 

Memorial window commemorates Doctor A J Waldock who made his outstanding contribution to the Baptist Church in Australia in the field of missionary service over 52 years

Memorial window commemorates Reverend Dr Thomas Porter and his wife.

Dr Porter was a medical practitioner who left a successful practice in the United States of America to enter the ministry. He came to Australia and worked in Ballarat, Victoria when he accepted a call to the Petersham Baptist Church in New South Wales. He was a Minister for sixty years and was President of the Baptist Union of New South Wales in 1899-1901 and the window was donated by the Baptist Union.

The tower cross was erected in memory of Dr Geoffrey G Cumming a previous parish councillor.

Plaque commemorates Dr W. S. Littlejohn who was Principal of Scots College and a Session Clerk at the Scots Church

Plaque erected by her friends in the parish to the memory of Emily Collett who was Verger and a worshipper in the church from 1934 - 1954.

Monument commemorates the Founder of the Christian Brothers.

Edmund Ignatius Rice (1 June 1762 – 29 August 1844), was an  Irish born Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers.

He was declared Venerable in 1993 by His Holiness Pope John Paul II.

Stain glass window erectedd by St Andrew's Guild in 1930 to the memory of Edmund Coleman, a parishioner for over 45 years, who died in 1906.  

Commemorates the founder of the Christian Brothers who was declared Blessed by the Pope in 1996.

Edmund Ignatius Rice was born on 1 June 1762 in Callan, Ireland, during the terrible Penal Times. Edmund was increasingly disturbed with the lot of the poor Irish Catholics. Thirteen years after his wife died, and having provided for his daughter, he sold his business and began a night school for the "quay kids" of Waterford. Edmund`s first helpers deserted him leaving him desperate, but then two men from his native Callan joined him, not only to teach but also to help Edmund found a religious order to educate poor boys. By 1825 Edmund Rice and his 30 Christian Brothers were educating, free of charge, 5,500 boys in 12 different towns and cities. Many were also being clothed and fed. In 1829 the laws of the land caught up with Edmund and he was told by the Duke of Wellington that his order existed contrary to the law. and his order faced extinction. Fortunately the Christian Brothers were not suppressed and by Edmund`s death on 29 August 1844, Christian Brothers were educating boys in Ireland, England and Australia (Sydney).

The beautiful East window was installed in 1871 in memory of Edward Charles Close who died on May 7th, 1866. Bishop Tyrrell designed the window and glass was made in England by a team of glaziers paid for by inhabitants of the district in memory of the builder of St James Church.

St James Church  was built to fullfil a vow. Lieutenant Edward Close promised God that if he survived the Spanish Peninsular War he would build a church as an act of thanksgiving. Close survived, and the foundation stone was laid on January 2, 1837. The construction of sandstone walls, using locally quarried stone lined with handmade bricks, was carried out over a three year period. The church was completed in 1840 and consecrated on December 31, with St. James as its' Patron, by William Broughton, the first Bishop of Australia.

Stain glass window erected by parishioners and friends to the memory of Edward Herbert Lambert. 

Stained glass window commemorates Edward Whitehead who was a trustee of the church, and the SUnday School Superintendent

Driveway commemorates Ronald Johnston, an elder of the Church 

Grave commemorates missionary who worked among the indigenous people of Lower Tweed.

Elizabeth McKenzie Hatton was born at Richmond Melbourne. After several years of mission work in Melbourne, she moved to Bundaberg where she married Samuel McKenzie. Both were engaged in mission work among the canefield kanakas. Following Mckenzie`s death she married Thomas Hatton, also a missionary and they returned to Melbourne. She later ran a home for Aboriginal girls in Sydney, and following Hatton`s death she and her two daughters settled in Tweed Heads where she was actively engaged in mission work among the indigenous people of the Lower Tweed.

Stain glass window to mark her 80th year and in appreciation of 60 years of devoted service in the Sunday School, the choir and as organist of the parish.

Plaque erected by the Union Church Sunday School teachers & Pupils to the memory of Ernest & Lucy Vilkes.

Plaque erected by friends to Ettie Moore, the church organist for 45 years. 

Monument commemorates Father Bill Peters.

Father Bill Peters was a Catholic priest at the parish church of St Helens, East Gresford. Father Peters served the parish for 26 years. Father Bill served in the Australian Imperial Force during the Second World War as a chaplain in the Pacific theatre. He was also instrumental in introducing to the district the Sisters of St Joseph, who worked in the schools and remote areas of the Gresford-Paterson region.

Oval commemorates local priest Father Gregory Hannan who was killed in 1975 while trying to set a world endurance record for a towed glider.

Father Leo Murphy was assistant priest at St Ignatius from 1942 until he died in 1957. A fund was set up to purchase a pipe organ as a memorial to him and in accordance with the instructions of Pius XII who had ruled that a pipe organ was the approved instrument for use during the liturgy and to accompany singing.

Commemorates Parish priest of North Lismore who was killed in a plane crash.

Father Miazzi (a member of the Scalabrinian Order) was a much-loved parish priest in North Lismore and there served many of the descendents of New Italy. He was killed in a plane crash in 1968. A memorial to Father Miazzi was constructed at the Catholic Church, North Lismore but when the parish closed it was decided to move the monument to New Italy. The Monument was reconstructed in the new Park of Peace in 1991.

Stain glass window erected by the parishioners. 

St Patrick's Church was named in memory of Father Patrick Doyle and a plaque notes that the bell tower is dedicated to him.

The first priest serving the church was Father Patrick Bernard Doyle and in 1915 title to the church land was placed in the names of Doyle and Bishop John Heavey.

Father Doyle was a deeply spiritual man who was held in great affection and respect by his parishioners. He was born in Ireland in 1874 and joined the order of Saint Augustine in 1893. In 1899 he came to serve in north Queensland as assistant priest, then parish priest, at Cairns. In 1906 he was appointed to Herberton where he stayed, with a return to Cairns for a year between 1908 and 1909, until his death in 1924. He served various churches in his parish, besides teaching and playing sport at the Sisters of Mercy school in Herberton.

Memorial tablet in honour of the first Pastor of St Francis Xavier Church .

Father Thomas Hayes, the first pastor, built the presbytery, erected a school and introduced the Sisters of Mercy. 

Plaque commemorates 29 years of service by the late Father Vincent  O’Sullivan. 

Seven wooden sculptures created by a chainsaw, commemorate Father Woods and Blessed Mary MacKillop who in 1866 founded the Australian Sisters of St Joseph.   The order provided free Catholic education initially for the isolated bush children of Penola.

Marble tablet erected by the parishioners to the memory of Florence Mary Simpson who died on the 4th February 1889 aged 49.  St Lukes was dedicated as Christ Church until 1960.

Memorial Window commemorates Francis Fraser Armstrong a Methodist pioneer and missionary to Aborigines in Western Australia.

Francis Armstrong arrived in the Swan River Colony with his father, four brothers and sister on 15 Dec. 1829 aboard Gilmore from Dalkeith, Scotland. The family settled on the banks of the River Swan between Perth and Fremantle and named the locality Dalkeith after their home village in Scotland. While Francis Armstrong helped with the work associated with establishing themselves he met and befriended a number of the local natives. He felt strongly attracted to these primitive people and at once set out to learn something of their customs and dialect. The young Francis Armstrong quickly associated himself with the Tranby Methodists and helped to establish the first Methodist Society in WA. In 1841 the governor granted to the Methodists an annual subsidy of £75 to help establish a mission for the Aboriginal people on the foreshore near the Mt Eliza Bay area. It was to Francis and Mary Armstrong, that the Rev John Smithies,  the first minister of Wesley Church, turned to entrust the superintendency of this mission. He became so proficient in the language of the Aboriginal people he wrote or assisted in the writing of two books translating some of their dialects into English.

Plaque erected by the Junior Choir.  

The stained glass window  " Baptism of Christ " is a memorial to George Augustus Middleton, first clergyman appointed north of the Hawkesbury River and incumbent at Christ Church from 1820- 1827. He was a Colonial Chaplain appointed by King George III. The Paschal Candle, a symbol of the Risen Christ, stands nearby

Memorial tablet erected by the congregation and Sunday School to the memory of George Hewlett who died in 1894 at the age of 74.

George Hewlett was a deacon of the church and  also a member of the first municipal council in 1859. He served as mayor on numerous occasions, was treasurer of  Wollongong Hospital and trustee of the Illawarra Building Society. 

 Gates erected in 1954 in memory of the parish churchwarden.

Memorial tablet to George William Torrance (1835-1907), clergyman, organist and composer. The tablet itself is bronze with a portrait of Dr Torrance.

Torrance arrived at Williamstown in the Thomas Stephens on 15 December 1869. He was appointed to Christ Church, South Yarra, in February 1870 and next year became acting curate at St John's, La Trobe Street. In 1872 he was appointed acting principal of Trinity College, later affiliated with the University of Melbourne, a position he held until 1876. In December 1879 Torrance was admitted D.Mus. (ad eund.) at the University of Melbourne, the first degree in music conferred by the university..

Torrance continued at St John's until 1877 when he was appointed to All Saints, Geelong. He was at Holy Trinity, Balaclava, from 1878 to 1895, when the permanent church was built to J. Reed's design and a fine three-manual organ, built by G. Fincham, was installed. Torrance also acted as organist in 1880-82, donating his fee to the organ fund. 

Torrance was among the finest composers of the period and his works include numerous hymns and anthems, a chant book, many songs and madrigals.

 Memorial tablet commemorates George William Torrance (1835-1907), clergyman, organist and composer. 

Torrance arrived at Williamstown in the Thomas Stephens on 15 December 1869. He was appointed to Christ Church, South Yarra, in February 1870 and next year became acting curate at St John's, La Trobe Street. In 1872 he was appointed acting principal of Trinity College, later affiliated with the University of Melbourne, which was opened in February. Torrance continued at St John's until 1877 when he was appointed to All Saints, Geelong.

He was at Holy Trinity, Balaclava, from 1878 to 1895, when the permanent church was built to J. Reed's design and a fine three-manual organ, built by G. Fincham, was installed. Torrance also acted as organist in 1880-82, donating his fee to the organ fund. The £600 it cost was fully paid by 1885 through Father Torrance giving recitals, collecting subscriptions and acting as the church organist to save the salary. He was dubbed ‘the disappearing parson’ because after finishing prayers he vanished behind the screen to play the organ.

Commemorates Hannah Ramsay , the wife of Reverend John Garlick

Window erected by the parishioners dedicated to Harold Blanchard the Curate of Christ Church who died in 1916. St Lukes was dedicated as Christ Church until 1960. 

 Memorial bell tower dedicated to Harold Lewis, choirmaster of Christ Church for 30 years. 

 Plaque erected by the Order of Knights a Methodist fraternity.

Font canopy of Queensland Maple given by the Seaborn Family in memory of Harriet Marsden and Mary Forster as faithful workers in the original parish of Goulburn

Stained glass window erected to the memory of Harry Venn and plaque commemorates his wife Charlotte's involvement in the church.

St Mary's Church has strong associations with Harry Withal Venn, a prominent member of the Forrest government, who played a major role in the erection of the church, and with his wife Charlotte Venn, a prominent parish member and benefactor of the church from its construction to her death in 1936. The stained glass windows in the sanctuary of the church are dedicated to Harry Venn’s memory, and an attached plaque commemorates Charlotte’s significant involvement in the church.

Stone from Wyville, the home of Mr & Mrs Daniel Hawkins erected in 1954 as a tribute to 60 years of service by the family to the church.

Memorial plaque unveiled in 1910 to Mr. T.W. Heaydon.

Mr. Heaydon was one of the oldest members of the Methodist church in Dubbo, and  drew the plans and superintended the building of the church. Dubbo's first Methodist Church (1875) is now the Sunday school hall to the Uniting Church, which was built as a Methodist church in 1888.

Plaque commemorates Helen Dinsmore.

Helen Dinsmore died of a heart attack whilst at prayer in the Warriors` Chapel on 30 June 2004. Helen had served in the Royal Australian Air Force for nineteen years and was in training to become a Defence Force Chaplain. She was ordained Deacon at All Saints` Cathedral, Bathurst on 6th December 2003.

Hymn Board and plaque dedicated by the women of the Parish to the memory of Helen White, former head mistress of the Girls Grammar School and a regular worshipper in the church. 

Plaque erected by parishioners in memory of Henry Delahunt Matthews (1884-1956) churchwarden and missionary. 

Plaque erected by the congregation to the memory of Henry Fulton Neale, Sunday School Superintendent and Churchwarden for 45 years who died in 1938 at the age of 81. The plaque sits under a window erected by his family. 

Memorial window and tablet commemorates Henry Kinsela who was a patron of the church.

Henry Kinsela, a wealthy landowner in the 19th century who built a property called "Kinsel Grove" where he developed a horse stud farm. He was a well known identity and philanthropist in local charities.

Doors to the church commemorate the service to the church of Henry Bremner Lewis

Commemorates evangelist, philanthropist and benefactor. Although a successful businessman, his main concern was evangelism. In 1875 he helped Reverend George Brown to establish the New Guinea Mission and bought for it the steam launch Henry Reed.

In New Britain Brown named Henry Reed Bay in his honour. In Launceston he bought Parr`s Hotel in Wellington Street in order to replace it with a mission church. The adjoining skittle alley was renovated and opened for worship in July 1876, but the Memorial Church on the site was completed in 1885 after his death, as were the near-by Dunorlan Cottages built in his memory to provide free housing with a sustenance allowance for elderly indigent women.

Three stained glass windows commemorate Irving Hetherington and Peter Menzies who were reverends of the church

The Hoban Chapel was added to the Wesley Uniting Church in 1933 in memory of the Reverend Samuel J. Hoban, the third superintendent of the Mission. The Communion table was given in his memory by his friends in Ballarat and three windows commemorate aspects of his life.

Tablet erected by the congregation in honour of Isabella Dunmore Lang Mackenzie .

Plaque erected in 1965 by the pupils and friends of J.E.Knowles who was a Sunday School teacher at the church for 53 years.

Stained glass window commemorates an Elder of the church

Tablet in memory of James Maughan (1826-1871), Methodist New Connexion minister, was subscribed by his congregation and erected at the church named after him.

In May 1862 Maughan was dedicated for service in Australia and with his wife and four children he left Liverpool in the Blanche Moore. For his Sunday services and scientific lectures fellow passengers presented him with a piece of scientific equipment when the ship reached Melbourne on 1 September. He found the cost of living too high in Melbourne and Ballarat so decided to make his headquarters in Adelaide where he found the largest number of his denomination. He held his first services on 21 December and continued to preach in public rooms until a new church was opened on 12 December 1864 in Franklin Street.

Memorial archway erected by parishioners, friends , colleagues and Masonic Lodge members to the memory of James Morrison, Rector's Warden of St Mary's Church. 

Monument commemorates Minister and husband of the spiritualist Annie Bright. He drowned in 1875.

Reverend James Pillars, a Unitarian minister, encouraged Annie to leave home and accompany him to Australia. They were married on 6 July 1864 in the High Pavement Unitarian Chapel, Nottingham, and migrated shortly afterwards to Sydney, where he took up his position as minister of a freethought church. Pillars was acknowledged as an excellent preacher, but his advanced ideas split the congregation, delaying the completion of a new church building. A decline in subscriptions caused financial hardship and, in an effort to alleviate this as well as to further her own abilities, Annie began a small school with the help of her husband, teaching the daughters of their friends. On 31 July 1875 she was left to do this alone when Pillars, while on a Sunday School excursion, fell from a cliff, was swept off the rocks at Bondi and presumably drowned

Pulpit dedicated as a memorial to Jane Barker who was a regular worshipper and constant worker for the Church.

Jane Barker was born in Burra in 1855 and lived in Burra until 1874 and then at Baldina before moving to Adelaide at the age of 64. Jane and her husband William were actively associated with the church. 

Plaque commemorates Jane Catherine Powlson

Plaque commemorates Jenny Abbey Robertson.

Stain glass window erected by the congregation to the memory of Jessie Dunbar Brown  who died in December 1923 at the age of 70 . Mrs Brown was wife of the Venerable Archdeacon Barry Brown of Wellington. 

White marble tablet erected in 1921 ,on the centenary of the conveyance of the property, in honour of the Lees, the pioneer methodists of Castlereagh who opened their home for services in 1815 and in 1817 erected the first Wesleyan Chapel in the southern hemisphere.

Rum Corps soldier turned pastoralist, John Lees, donated the land on which the first Wesleyan Church in Australia was built in 1817. He is buried in the Cemetery which dates from 1836. The adjoining weatherboard Hall (1864) housed the Wesleyan school which was established by 1840 and operated until the Upper Castlereagh school opened opposite in 1887.

Plaque in memory of John B Alabaster, an Elder of the Church

 Memorial to John Campbell (1802-1886), merchant, politician and churchman. 

John Campbell was more famous for his support of the colony's growing Church of England. He gave £10,000 to found the diocese of Riverina, contributed to the endowments of the bishopric of Goulburn and the see of Grafton and Armidale. He also enabled the bishopric of Fiji (Polynesia) to be founded. He was a parishioner of St Philip's, Sydney, to which he gave a peal of bells, and he supported many other parishes in Sydney and elsewhere. He built the chancel of St John's, Canberra, in memory of his father.

Grave contains ashes and commemorates pioneer churchmen and founder of the Flying Doctor Service.

 In 1912 Flynn was commissioned to undertake a survey of the needs of both the Aboriginal people and European settlers of the Northern Territory. His detailed reports resulted in the creation by the Presbyterian Church of its Australian Inland Mission (AIM), of which Flynn was appointed Superintendent. The Mission, which commenced operation with one nursing hostel, a nursing sister and a padre, had by 1926, under Flynn`s leadership, become a network of ten strategically placed nursing hostels operating closely with patrol padres. Keenly aware of the isolation of the people of inland Australia, he believed that a `mantle of safety` could be created for the isolated communities of Northern Australia only with the establishment of an aerial medical service and the introduction of radio communications. Despite many setbacks and considerable opposition, Flynn`s vision became a reality on the 17th May 1928 when the first flying doctor flew from Cloncurry to Julia Creek to answer the first call received by the AIM Aerial Medical Service.

Commemorates Pioneer churchmen and founder of the Flying Doctor Service.

John Flynn OBE (25 November 1880 – 5 May 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance.

Flynn was made the first superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission. As well as tending to matters spiritual, Flynn quickly established the need for medical care for residents of the vast Australian outback, and established a number of bush hospitals.

While undoubtedly most famous for the organisation that became the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Flynn's work with the Mission extended well beyond it. As well as the nursing homes, Flynn instituted travelling ministries - ministers travelling vast distances on horseback through the inland. In 1939 Presbyterian Church of Australia elected Flynn to the role of Moderator-General.

The John Flynn Memorial Uniting Church was designed by architect Arthur Philpott and built as a memorial to John Flynn for his tremendous achievements for the people of the outback. These achievements include the creation of the Australian Inland mission and the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Commemorates a pioneer and benefactor of bellringing in Australia

Stain glass window erected by friends and relatives to the memory of John King Lethbridge.

John's name appears on the church records of St Mary Magdalene where for about 40 years, he was Church Warden as well as being a synod representative and one of the church Trustees.

At the time of his death in May, 1900 he was also noted as being the oldest magistrate in the district. His funeral was one of the largest seen in the district with over 300 mourners, including about 70 vehicles and fifty horseman. He is laid to rest in the graveyard of the St Mary Magdalene Church along with his wife, who died in 1902.

Obelisk on grave commemorates Presbyterian Minister.

In the early 1870s McGibbon had been the chief publicist for the Loyal Orange Institution of New South Wales which was rejuvenated in 1868. His iteration that Orangeism was simply Evangelical Protestantism did much to break down English prejudice against its Irish associations and helped the institution to reach its peak of 25,000 members in the early 1880s. In great demand as a speaker he often preached from the pulpits of other Protestant denominations and often visited the country. After he died in 1882, Orangemen erected a large obelisk over his grave.

Mitchell Hall commemorates John Mitchell who served the school as a teacher and superintendent from September 1861 to 1921.

Monument Characteristices :

Inscription is on a brass plate, mounted on timber, situated at the entrance doorway of the building which is located on the east side of the church.

Plaque erected in 1922 by the parishioners. 

A stone memorial cross in the church grounds commemorates John Ramsden Wollaston. 

The Anglican Church in Western Australia declared the Venerable John Ramsden Wollaston to be a Local Saint and Hero of the Province in 1984.  He was the first Archdeacon of Western Australia from 1849 to 1856.  He is also commemorated in the naming of the former Theological College in Perth (now used more as a conference centre), an Anglican School at Westfield and a nursing home in Albany.  

The township of Berrigan, which started into existence about the year 1888, is in the centre of a large agricultural district. It formed, at first, part of the Jerilderie charge, but in 1894 it was constituted a separate parish. Various preachers were sent by the Home Mission Committee to supply ordinances, of whom Mr. John Valentine, student for the ministry, remained the longest and was most successful. It was through his efforts that the excellent brick church was built. His early death was much lamented, and a porch was added to the church at Berrigan as a Memorial.  

Commemorates the founder of the Methodist Church.

In 1742 Wesley published his doctrine of Christian Perfection, which provoked much debate over the next couple of centuries and Wesley`s teachings and preaching continued to attract more people. However, it also continued to upset the leaders in the Church of England. Wesley therefore came under great persecution wherever he went.During the 1750s through the 1760s, Wesley continued to build his "societies" of followers and developed schools and orphanages. His preaching and teaching took him throughout Britain, and his writings and publications were being read around the world by all social classes. Wesley wrote in such a way that the common man could understand what was being said.

This brought an understanding of God`s word to the common man, which ignited revival fires throughout the land. In 1784, Thomas Coke, a disciple under Wesley, was headed far America to oversee the "societies" there. Wesley ordained Coke and gave him a certificate as general superintendent of the Methodists in America, effectively beginning the Methodist denomination in America and formally splitting from the Church of England.

Built as a memorial to the Reverend Thomas Johnstone. Dr Johnstone was Presbyterian minister from 1857 to 1903 and died in 1909.

Johnstone arrived at Sydney in 1857 and was appointed by the Synod of Australia to East Maitland, but was soon called to Armidale, then within the Presbytery of Maitland. He began his ministry on 17 April 1857 and vigorously covered a wide area of New England, including Walcha, Hillgrove, Kilcoy, Wandsworth and Guyra as well as the town and district of Armidale. He described himself as an 'evangelical boundary rider'. He was often absent from home for long periods and annually travelled over 6000 miles (9656 km) on horseback. He baptized more than 3000 infants and joined over 800 couples in marriage. In 1865-76 he was clerk of the Presbytery of New England after the union of the Presbyterian Church in Australia. In 1882 St Paul's Church was built in Armidale.  He continued to live in the old manse after he had gained a colleague, Rev. Peter McQueen, because of his failing health. In 1894 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St Andrews. In 1903 he became Minister Emeritus. He died at Armidale on 3 February 1909.

Plaque erected in 1929 by the congregation of the Canobalas Methodist Church (1872-1973). The plaque was transferred to Orange in 1974.

Marble tablet erected to the memory of Joseph Watson Junior who died on the 2nd August 1871 aged 26 years. The tablet was erected by members of his Sunday School class.

Plaque erected by the congregation as a tribute to Kate Burke who died in 1919 at the age of 71. 

Clerestory window in memory of  L. F. De Soyres, a young chorister who died in 1889. The window was subscribed by the choristers and the boy’s school friends.

Altar erected to first Server of the Church. An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian religious service. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell and so on.

 Window erected by friends in memory of Lieutenant Norman Booth who was killed in WW1.

Lieutenant Booth was a tireless worker in the Parish and at the time of enlisting he was studying for the Anglican Ministry. He had worked at the churches of Enmore, Chatswood and Mosman teaching in the Sunday School and conducting services. 

 Window erected by Parishioners and friends to the memory of Lieutenant Semple who was killed in World War 1. The window was erected in appreciation of his work in the Church and Sunday School. 

Plaque commemorates Lieutenant-Commander H.J. Bennett R.N.  a worshipper at the church who died in 1926.

Plaque erected by the many friends of Lilla Simmions to her memory. Lilla who died in 1946 was a worshipper and worker of the church. 

Lilla Lashmar was a missionary who was beheaded by the Japanese in New Guinea in 1941 during World War Two. The cross in the window was a gift of the Japanese Anglican Church concerning martyrdom of Australian Missionaries at the hands of Japanese soldiers

Two memorial windows dedicated to the memory of Lorna Farrar  who was an organist at St Margaret's church for many years. The windows which were placed in the chancel represent St Margaret and St Cecilia. 

Plaque erected by parishioners to the memory of Lucy Osborne who died in 1902. Lucy was a member of the parish for 30 years. 

Plaque commemorates the Secretary of St James Women`s Guild.

This early 20th century church commemorates Rev. John MacNeil, B.A., the first inducted Presbyterian Minister for Waverley who established the Mill Hill Mission in 1886.

Tablet erected by congregation in memory of Margaret Mc Cracken who was a member of the church for over 40 years.

The Arthur Murch painting of The Holy Family  is a memorial to Marjorie Burton who worked for nine years in the outback from a caravan provided by the Girls’ Friendly Society.

 

Originally known as the Girls’ Friendly Society, GFS Australia began as a local branch of the Girls' Friendly Society founded in England in 1875 by Mary Townsend. This was an Anglican Church group which formed to give maids and female domestic staff spiritual guidance and social activities for their days off. The Society later also functioned in part as an employment agency. The Society no longer focuses solely on girls. As of 2004, its stated aims were ‘to minister to children, youth and their families’, and there were 14 branches of the Society across all Australian states.

Window erected in their memory in 1969 by volunteers under Reverend L.A.Pearson. 

Erected by the parishioners to the wife of the rector of the parish who died in 1896

Plaque commemorates Mary Moore a member of the Women`s Guild of St James.

Plaque commemorates Mary Jane Daly, a worshiper at the church.

Memorial tablet erected by the inmates of Hyde Park Asylum.

The Hyde Park Barracks was built in 1819 to house, clothe and feed convict men and boys.  After 1848 the main dormitory held newly arrived female immigrants while a handful of government agencies made use of surrounding buildings. In 1862, separate wards for destitute women were added upstairs and the Barracks became known as the Hyde Park Asylum.

Commemorates the birthplace of Mary MacKillop. Mary MacKillop was founder and Superior of the Sisters of St Joseph. They were to live in poverty and dedicate themselves to educating poor children.

MacKillop was excommunicated by Bishop Sheil on 22 September 1871 for alleged insubordination; most of the schools were closed and the Sisterhood almost disbanded. The excommunication was removed on 21 February 1872.

In journeys throughout Australasia she established schools, convents and charitable institutions but came into conflict with those bishops who preferred diocesan control of the Sisterhood. Always regarded as holy, she was put forward in 1972 as a candidate for the honour of beatification and canonization and on 1 February 1973 the Cause was formally introduced.

Monument Commemorates Mary MacKillop, the Catholic nun.

Mary Helen MacKillop was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Since her death she has attracted much veneration in Australia and internationally and is Australia's first saint.

Memorial at original burial site of Mary MacKillop. On her death on 8 August 1909 Mary MacKillop was originally buried at Gore Hill cemetery, surrounded by previously departed Josephite nuns. Unfortunately, Mary's grave began to suffer from the love and excess devotion of the faithful, and concerns were raised when soil began to disappear from the gravesite. In 1914 it was decided to remove her remains to the present resting place at the Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel, Mount Street, North Sydney.

Mary Helen MacKillop (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Since her death she has attracted much veneration in Australia and internationally.

MacKillop is the only Australian to have been beatified (in 1995 by Pope John Paul II). On 17 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. On 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved the Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to her intercession. Her canonisation was formally declared on 17 October 2010, making her the first Australian saint. She is now known as Saint Mary of the Cross.

 

Street named after Australia's first saint Mary MacKillop.

Mary MacKillop visited the town when the Sisters of St Joseph had a school there. The Sisters of St Joseph had a Catholic school in Helidon in 1874. The Sisters of St Joseph came from Brisbane, Toowoomba and Pittsworth for the occasion of Mary Mackillop's visit.

Mary Helen MacKillop (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Since her death she has attracted much veneration in Australia and internationally.

Mary MacKillop is the only Australian to have been beatified (in 1995 by Pope John Paul II). On 17 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. On 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved the Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to her intercession. It was announced on 19 February 2010 that her canonisation is due to be formally declared on 17 October 2010, making her the first Australian saint. After her canonisation she will be known as Saint Mary of the Cross.

 

Statue commemorates Mary Mackillop, Australia's first saint.

Mary Helen MacKillop (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Since her death she has attracted much veneration in Australia and internationally.

MacKillop is the only Australian to have been beatified (in 1995 by Pope John Paul II). On 17 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. On 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved the Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to her intercession.It was announced on 19 February 2010 that her canonisation is due to be formally declared on 17 October 2010, making her the first Australian saint. After her canonisation she will be known as Saint Mary of the Cross.[

 

Monument commemorates Mary MacKillop the founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph order.   The bronze monument shows Mary MacKillop holding hands with two children.

The Mary MacKillop Centre in suburban Kensington is the only one of its type in Adelaide and commemorates the work of Mary MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph.

Heritage centre commemorates Mary MacKillop, educationalist and co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph.

Commemorates Mary MacKillop, educationalist and co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph.

A stained glass window commemorates Mary MacKillop and is set against an Australian theme will be unveiled and blessed by Archbishop Adrian Doyle at Mass to be held at 10am on 17th of October 2010 at St John’s Glenorchy.

The Memorial Chapel hold the tomb of Mary Mackillop.

On her death on 8 August 1909 Mary MacKillop was originally buried at Gore Hill cemetery, surrounded by previously departed Josephite nuns. Unfortunately, Mary's grave began to suffer from the love and excess devotion of the faithful, and concerns were raised when soil began to disappear from the gravesite. In 1914 it was decided to remove her remains to the present resting place at the Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel, Mount Street, North Sydney.

Mary Helen MacKillop (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Since her death she has attracted much veneration in Australia and internationally.

MacKillop is the only Australian to have been beatified (in 1995 by Pope John Paul II). On 17 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. On 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved the Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to her intercession. It was announced on 19 February 2010 that her canonisation is due to be formally declared on 17 October 2010, making her the first Australian saint. After her canonisation she will be known as Saint Mary of the Cross.

Commemorates Mary MacKillop, the founder and Superior of the Sisters of St Joseph. The Sisters were to live in poverty and dedicate themselves to educating poor children.

MacKillop was excommunicated by Bishop Sheil on 22 September 1871 for alleged insubordination; most of the schools were closed and the Sisterhood almost disbanded. The excommunication was removed on 21 February 1872.

In journeys throughout Australasia she established schools, convents and charitable institutions but came into conflict with those bishops who preferred diocesan control of the Sisterhood. Always regarded as holy, she was put forward in 1972 as a candidate for the honour of beatification and canonization and on 1 February 1973 the Cause was formally introduced.

The Interpretive Centre and the Schoolhouse commemorate the lives of Mary MacKillop and Julian Tenison Woods with displays, photographs, artefacts and historical reflections.

Park dedicated to Australia's first saint Mary Mackillop. Mary MacKillop established a small Catholic school in the Ipswich suburb of Redbank Plains in 1874. The school closed in 1877 after the student population dwindled to eight. The building which housed the original school at Redbank Plains was moved to Goodna in 1916 and is now a heritage listed solicitor's office.

Mary Helen MacKillop (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Since her death she has attracted much veneration in Australia and internationally.

MacKillop is the only Australian to have been beatified (in 1995 by Pope John Paul II). On 17 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. On 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved the Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to her intercession. It was announced on 19 February 2010 that her canonisation is due to be formally declared on 17 October 2010 making her the first Australian saint. After her canonisation she will be known as Saint Mary of the Cross.

Monument commemorates the beatification of Mary MacKillop.

St. Finbarr’s Parish School was established in 1950 by the Sisters of St Joseph. It was known as St Joseph’s Convent for some years, changing to St Finbarr’s Parish School in the early 1970’s. The Sisters of St. Joseph’s have administered the School since it began and have also conducted a coeducational boarding facility since 1951. The boarding school catered for children whose parents live on properties or live and work away from town. The boarding school facility closed in 2008 due to lack of numbers.

Mary Helen MacKillop (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Since her death she has attracted much veneration in Australia and internationally.

MacKillop is the only Australian to have been beatified (in 1995 by Pope John Paul II). On 17 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. On 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved the Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to her intercession.[1] It was announced on 19 February 2010 that her canonisation is due to be formally declared on 17 October 2010,[2][3] making her the first Australian saint.[4] After her canonisation she will be known as Saint Mary of the Cross.

 

Stained glass window commemorates Sister Mary MacKillop

Stain glass window erected by the women of the congregation in memory of Mary McDonald who died on the 7th December 1913. 

Statue commemorates the founder of the Loreto Sisters, Mary Ward.

Mary Ward (1585-1645), founder of Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters), lived in dangerous and tumultuous times. The daughter of a Catholic Yorkshire family she heard at first-hand of the experiences of English Catholics being persecuted for their faith. Her folk were from the gentry, though this did not spare them from imprisonment or surveillance. Although Mary`s family wanted to see her wedded to a suitable Catholic partner, from an early age Mary knew that she was destined for a religious vocation. This was not exactly a safe vocation in a century that had seen the suppression and expulsion of thousands from England`s monasteries and convents. Eventually Mary would set sail for Flanders where after hesitant beginnings she founded the community of women that would become known as her Institute. She was declared "Venerable" by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 December 2009; this is the first of three steps on the path to being declared a saint.

Statue commemorates Mary Ward, founder of the Loreto Sisters.

Mary Ward (1585-1645), founder of Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters), lived in dangerous and tumultuous times. The daughter of a recusant Yorkshire family she heard at first-hand of the experiences of English Catholics being persecuted for their faith. Her folk were from the gentry, though this did not spare them from imprisonment or surveillance. Although Mary`s family wanted to see her wedded to a suitable Catholic partner, from an early age Mary knew that she was destined for a life as a religious. This was not exactly a safe vocation in a century that had seen the suppression and expulsion of thousands of religious from England`s monasteries and convents. Eventually Mary would set sail for Flanders where after hesitant beginnings she founded the community of women that would become known as her Institute.

Commemorates the founder of the Loreto Sisters order of the Catholic Church

Stain glass window erected by friends to the memory of Mercy Jeffries who died in 1903. Mercy Jeffries was the wife of the Reverend William Jeffries, Minister of Kent Town, 1902 - 1907 and 1917 - 1918. She was very active in the church and taught Sunday School. The length of the window is 11ft 4 inches in which two angels are depicted holding aloft the text " Her children arise up and call her blessed" on the base of the window is a cross and crown with the inscription.

Tibute dedicated in 1981 in appreciation of her years of services with the Women's Fellowship.

Stain glass windows erected by the priests of the Bathurst Diocese commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Monsignor Long's priesthood.

Monsignor Long was born in Ireland and entered St Patrick's Seminary, Carlow at the age of 18. He volunteered as a missionary for the newly formed diocese of Bathurst and arrived in Australia in 1876. He was ordained in 1877 and in February 1928 celebrated his golden jubilee of priesthood. Monsignor Long died in 1933 and had been parish priest in Wellington for 25 years. 

Commemorates the founder of Boystown in Beaudesert.

 Memorial plaque commemorates Montague Younger (1836-1899), church musician.

In 1868 Younger became the first organist of the newly-opened St Andrew's Cathedral, in which post he served for over thirty years. Younger became vice-warden of the Sydney College of Music and was chairman of the committee for the specifications of the organ in the Sydney Town Hall.

The Bishops’ Chairs with their red cushions are a memorial to Perth’s third Archbishop, the Most Reverend Robert Moline.

 

The Most Rev Robert William Haines Moline, MC, MA, DD (20 October 1889 - August 1979) was the third Archbishop of Perth. Decorated for wartime service with the Rifle Brigade he was ordained in 1921 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Matthew’s, Bethnal Green after which he joined the Brotherhood of St Barnabas in North Queensland.  He was its Warden from 1925 to 1927 and Archdeacon of the area until 1929. Returning to England he was Rector of North Cadbury then of Poplar. From 1940 until 1947 he was Vicar of St Paul’s, Knightsbridge when he became Archbishop of Perth, a post he held until retirement in 1962.

Plaque erected by relatives, the congregation and the Women's Guild of the Belmont Street Congregational Church. The plaque was moved to its present location in 1977. 

 The Lady Chapel in the Holy Trinity Church Woolloongabba was erected in memory of Mr & Mrs Thomas Weedon. 

Thomas Weedon had been instrumental in establishing the church and was a lay preacher for twenty years until his death in 1896. Both the Weedons had been active congregation members and church benefactors. The church was partially financed by the sale of a property in Merton Road, bequeathed to the church by Mrs Weedon who was affectionately known as Mother of the Parish.

A brass lectern in the shape of an eagle given in memory of Mr Barnes who was for many years a resident of the parish and lay preacher. 

Plaque erected by members of the Belmont Street Congregational Church and moved to its present location in 1977. 

Plaque originally located inn the old church hall commemorates Mr William Bujah who it is believed financed the tranfer of the original hall and its re-siting in Manns Lane. The plaque has been preserved and is now found in the crypt. 

Plaque erected by the congregation to Mrs Alexander George who died in 1911.

Memorial pipe organ dedicated to the memory of Mrs Amy Osborn, widow of the late Archdeacon Osborn. The organ was built in 1929 by Whitehouse Bros of Brisbane at a cost of £466.

Central light of three lighted west window erected by the congregation in memory of Mrs Helen Johnstone Frew who was a conpicuous member of the church for over 25 years. She died in 1911. 

Tablet erected by the congregation in memory of Margaret Pigdon who made a generous donation to the church in 1894 .

Plaque mounted on a sandstone seat presented by the congregation and dedicated to Mrs Myra Thompson 1904-1985. 

Brass plaque erected by the congregation commemorates Mrs William Learmonth who was a member of the church for 50 years.  

Leadlight window commemorates local churchman

Commemorates Padre White who inaugurated the ANZAC Dawn service in Australia in 1923.

Reverend White was serving as one of the padres of the earliest ANZAC`s to leave Australia with the First Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) in November 1914. The convoy was assembled in the Princess Royal harbour and King George Sound at Albany WA. Before embarkation, at four in the morning, he conducted a service for all the men of the battalion. When White returned to Australia in 1919, he was appointed relieving Rector of the St John`s Church in Albany. On 25th April 1923, at Albany in Western Australia, the Reverend White led a party of friends in what was the first ever observance of a Dawn parade on ANZAC Day, thus establishing a tradition which has endured, Australia wide ever since. Eventually, White was transferred from Albany to serve other congregations, the first in South Australia, then Broken Hill where he built a church, then later at Forbes NSW.

Memorial tombstone erected by the congregation of St Andreas Lutheran Church Brisbane and friends to the memory of Pastor Ernst Maier. Pastor Maier was minister of St Andreas ( St Andrews) for 17 years.

Statue commemorates the founder of the Apostolic Church.

The story of the Apostolic Church of Queensland starts in 1883, when Heinrich Friedrich Niemeyer was sent to Australia as an evangelist by the Allgemeine Christliche Apostolische Mission (ACAM). Together with his wife and three children he arrived in Queensland on 28 June 1883. He experienced many adversities, but in three years managed to found a apostolic congregation of about 80 people. On Easter Monday 1899 Governor Lamington and his wife attended a church service in Hatton Vale. After the service apostle Niemeyer handed over a petition (signed by 427 church members) to the Governor requesting to be recognised as a church. (Until that time the group were regarded as a sect). This request was granted on 27 April 1899.

The Haydon Centre commemorates Patrick Maurice Haydon, the first pastor of St Christopher's parish, Canberra.   A memorial to him was added to the Parish in 1962 when the Haydon Catholic Centre and Library was opened on the Cathedral site.

In December 1912 Patrick Haydon  was appointed to Queanbeyan in the rural deanery as assistant to Fr Matthew Hogan. His arrival coincided with the development of the Federal Capital Territory, marked by the official naming of Canberra on 12 March 1913. Haydon acquired a motorbike, visited work depots, and celebrated Mass under canvas at the Cotter River and in temporary huts at Westridge (Yarralumla) and Molonglo (Fyshwick). 

On 30 January 1927 some five thousand people came to the site (at Parkes) which he had negotiated for a national cathedral and episcopal residence. At the gathering on 27 February 1928 he was appointed first pastor of St Christopher's parish, Canberra.

 

Commemorates the first priest of the Leongatha Catholic Parish.

 Plaque on organ dedicated to the memory of Peter Nicholls, pipe organist of St Johns Church.

Marble tablet to his memory was erected in the church by his parishioners in 1854.

Philip Palmer arrived in Hobart Town in 1833. Archdeacon William Grant Broughton limited his duties as rural dean to those of correspondence, the charge of Trinity and St John's, New Town, and services at the penitentiary and hospital.

In church development his greatest contribution was in the building of Holy Trinity Church and providing it with the first peal of bells in Australia. He died in 1853. 

 

Plaque erected by a few of his Sabbath scholars and friends.

Plaque erected by his fellow Sunday School workers and children to the memory of Raymond Stoddart who died on the 27th July 1918. 

Raymond Stoddart was the son of the Reverend A.G.Stoddart who was rector of St Matthews from 1894-19124.

Commemorates two missionaries, Retta Dixon and Amelia Shankleton who worked at the Retta Dixon Home which was an institution for Aboriginal girls.

Miss Retta Dixon took up the ministry in 1896. By 1899 work had spread to four other centres and the New South Wales Aborigines Mission was formed. In 1905 Retta Dixon moved to the Singleton district in the Hunter Valley, where a local committee formed the Aborigines Inland Mission of Australia. Opportunities for ministry and numbers of workers expanded rapidly and AIM was soon reaching out to many parts of NSW. By 1909 Retta Dixon had married Leonard Long and, following a survey of the needs, the Australian Inland Mission had commenced work in Queensland, with a centre established at Herberton in the far north. During the 1930s AIM began work in the "Top End" of the Northern Territory.

The Retta Dixon Home was established at Karu Park by Retta Dixon and her husband Leonard Long after World War 11.

 Plaque commemorates the Parish Priest of St Mary's from 1957 - 1978. 

 Left hand light on a set of three depicting the Annunciation with the inscription at the base commemorates Canon Rowe who died in 1968 and who was Rector of the church from 1938-1953. it also commemorates the 25th anniversary of the consecration of the church on the 24th July 1969. 

Memorial window commemorates Reverend Frederick Hibberd and his wife . The window was donated by the Baptist Union of NSW and was unveiled at the church's official opening ceremony on 23 February 1929.

Reverend Hibberd was closely involved with the founding of the Baptist Union of New South Wales. He was the Union`s Secretary for thirty-five years and President in 1873-74, 1885-86 and 1901-2.

 The Narthex is dedicated to the Reverend Arthur W. Preston (d. 1985), sixth superintendent of Wesley Mission. Under his guidance, the Mission greatly expanded its social services. He also was a campaigner for world peace. The plaque near the entrance to the Hoban Chapel gives details.

Seat commemorates Reverend Robertson of Scots Kirk.  John Gray Robertson, Reverend, was minister-in-charge of Scots Kirk, Mosman, 1941-1969.

Scots Kirk, Mosman, then known as Mosman Presbyterian Church, was established on March 8, 1898 by local residents many of whom had Scottish forebears. There have only been six ministers since that time.

Window in St Andrew's College Chapel commemorates Adam Thomson (1813-1874), Presbyterian minister.

When St Andrew's College was founded he was elected to the first council in November 1870. After the validity of the initial election of Rev. John Kinross was challenged by Rev. J. D. Lang, Thomson was chosen first principal on 24 September 1873. He developed a throat infection and died on 8 November 1874.

 Plaque erected as a tribute to the Reverend Albert Cornelius Mosley 1854-1938. 

Memorial tablet commemorates Reverend Alexander Robert Edgar (1850-1914), Methodist minister and social reformer, a minister of the church for 21 years.

In 1893 the Methodist Conference established the Central Methodist Mission at Wesley Church, with Edgar as superintendent and A. J. Derrick as secretary. Edgar was known for his preaching and for his action on behalf of those who were sick and poor.

In 1901 Edgar became president of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and next year Methodist Union with the United Free Methodist, Bible Christian and Primitive Methodist churches was achieved. He preached in Wesley Church for the last time on 26 January 1912.

 

Pulpit commemorates Reverend Alexander Marshall, a priest of the church

Commemorates Reverend Alexander Mc Callum, the second superintendent of the Central Mission and a respected churchman.  

 "The Last Supper " window is dedicated to the memory of Reverend Alexander Stewart, Minister of St Johns, 1887-1920. 

Rev Alexander Stewart, from The Leigh, Geelong, was called to St. Johns five years after the departure of Rev. William Groundwater Fraser. He was inducted on November 29th 1887, and remained at St. Johns for 33 years. He served a term as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1907. He died on October 17th 1924, and did not live to see the opening of the new church.

Stain glass window erected by the parishioners to the Rector of the parish (1878-1895)  who died in 1909.

Memorial plaque commemorates The Reverend Alfred J Cole. Originally a stained glass window, upon the sale and deconsecration of the old church in the 1990’s, the memorial plaque was removed to the new church for permanent display. 

The Reverend Alfred James Cole was the Vicar of Christ Church, Berwick from August 1903 to April 1932 (28 years) . He died on 22 November 1932 and a stained glass window was erected to his memory in the old church in 1939.

Commemorates the first minister of the Church

Reverend Walker was ordained in 1854 and was the first Minister appointed to Pentridge (later Coburg) and his circuit included the sparsely populated Eltham, Research, Kangaroo Ground, St. Andrews, Healesville, Marysville and Lilydale areas.

He was a man of huge energy and capacity, attributes which were to lead to an early death. He was instrumental int the completion of St Philips in Hoddle Street Collingwood and in 1875 he then applied his energies to the then dwindling parish of St. Matthew’s, High Street, Prahran.

He was instrumental in the construction of that Church on its present site which necessitated a change in State legislation. The workload was too much for him and upon announcing the Hymn “All Glory, Laud and Honour” from the pulpit on Palm Sunday on 14 April 1878, he collapsed and died within hours aged 45. Parishioners erected a handsome “Malmsbury bluestone” memorial.

Monument commemorates the Reverend Charles Beaumont Howard, the first Colonial Chaplain, and it was erected at the West Terrace cemetery by members of the Manchester Unity Oddfellows in South Australia and blessed by the Bishop of Adelaide in December 1921.

Tablet and window in memory of Reverend Charles Manthorpe who was pastor of the church for 36 years.

The Price Memorial Hall is dedicated to Minister Charles Price who formed a Congregational Church on 26 October 1836 and the Tamar Street Chapel which opened on 6 September 1837. Price, who had established a grammar school in 1836, drew no stipend from the church until its building debts were settled in 1850.

There was early disruption of the congregation when Reverend John West arrived in 1839 and drew away half the members to form a second church, but Price maintained an effective ministry for fifty-five years. He added chapels at Vincent Street (1848) and Inveresk (1858) to his pastorate. His qualities of leadership led to his election four times as chairman of the Tasmanian Congregational Union, and as the first president of the Congregational Union of Australasia.

The inscription was placed in a bottle and placed under the foundation stone. 

White marble tablet erected by former parishioners and friends to the memory of Reverend Child who died in 1898 at the age of 81. Reverend Childs was Incumbert of the parish ( 1853-1870) and afterwards Canon of Christ Church and afterwards Archdeacon of Newcastle.  

Baptismal Font dedicated to Reverend Cusack Russell who was the first vicar for St Johns Anglican Church in Digby. He was appointed Vicar of the Valley of Wannon in 1849 by Bishop Perry, the first Bishop of Melbourne.

Reverend Russell laid the foundation stone for the St John's Anglican Church in April 1861, and the church was consecrated in December that year.

The Blackwood Chapel was dedicated to commemorate the ministry at the Holy Trinity Church by the Reverend D. B. Blackwood.

Reverend Blackwood was minister of the church from 1924 - 1942.

Commemorates Reverend Daniel Draper, who influenced the choice of a Gothic design for Wesley Church while chairman of the Victoria district, was a minister of the church, and died along with his wife and 240 other people in the sinking of the "London" in the Bay of Biscay in 1866

Commemorates the first minister of the church

Stain glass window in memory of Reverend Dean Gunning who was Dean of Bega from 1898- 1905. The window is also in memory of those who built the church.

The date of the church’s opening is uncertain as the foundation stone was laid in 1907 but records indicate the church was not in use until 1908. It was originally built of red brick by H J Wilton, a local builder and was paid for by the parishioners at a cost of 1010 pounds with its furnishings. The church was opened by Dean Gunning and Manager Carroll.

Front gates and fence erected as a memorial to Reverend Donald Macrae Stewart who served the church for thirty years from its beginnings at the present site. Stewart served as a military chaplain during World War One and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church after his return in 1918.

Plaque commemorates the Reverend Cole's service to the church and the community. Reverend Cole was minister of the church from 1967 to 1981.

Plaque on gravesite commemorates Reverend Dr. David Rutledge a former rector of Sutton Forest. 

Dr Rutledge was in the first intake of six students to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. Since he was the only one of the group to complete the course he was notionally the faculty’s first graduate.

He served as rector of St Stephen’s Mittagong from 1896 and became the Rector of Sutton Forest in 1904.

 

Plaque erected to commemorate the centenary of the ordination of the first minister of the church 1868-1968. 

A three-paned stained glass window showing Joshua and Caleb telling Moses and the disbelieving Hebrews that a good land awaits them if they remain faithful to God, commemorates Reverend Edwin Iredale Watkin, D.D. (1839-1916), a Minister of the church, President of Wesley College, and orator 

Window erected in 1985 by the parishioners to the memory of Reverend Frank Slater , Rector of the Parish 1955-1978. 

Stain glass window is a tribute to his ministry 1889-1906.  

Plaque erected by the Scholars of St. James Sunday School commemorates the incumbent of St. Thomas Willoughby and Curate of St James.

A three paned stained glass window, with the centre pane showing Pestalozzi, a 17th century benefactor of orphans in Switzerland, and a boy commemorates the Reverend George Henry Cole (1859-1919), founding superintendent in 1903 of the Central Mission boys’ Training Farm (later Tally Ho) .

Marble tablet erected on church gates in memory of Reverend George H Muzy , First rector of Kangaroo Valley. 

Commemorates Reverend George Henry Backhaus (1812-1882) who held his first mass at Bendigo near the site of this church

 Erected by the parishioners in memory of Reverend George Muzy, Rector of the Parish 1894-1907. Reverend Muzy died in 1907. 

 Plaque over the main entrance of St Andrew's Old schoolroom, the present Church hall and parish offices commemorates the ministry of Harold Balkwell Hewitt by the restoration of the building. 

Stained glass window commemorates Reverend Henry Bath who was a minister of the church 

Plaque erected by his parishioners, to the memory of Reverend Henry Britten who was Rector of the church for 29 years. He died on the 30th July 1913.  

Bronze mural tablet erected by parishioners and friends in memory of  Herbert John Rose (1857-1930), Anglican clergyman and army chaplain. The tablet was unveiled and dedicated by the Reverend Canon Beck. 

For many years Reverend Rose was senior chaplain of the forces of New South Wales and saw service in the Sudan and Boer Wars. He was Rector of St Anne's for 45 years and it was during his ministry that a church and parish hall were erected. 

Commemorates local priest

Stain glass window erected by the congregation in memory of Reverend Hugh Paton, Minister of St Stephens 1925-1925

Commemorates Junior Minister of the Church.

Plaque erected by the parishioners to Reverend Mullins, Rector of the Church 1906 -1914. 

 Stain glass window erected by the parishioners to the memory of Reverend Whinfield.

Reverend Whinfield arrived in Australia in 1847. He was appointed a lay preacher at Singleton then after he was ordained , he was stationed at Wollombi. He succeeded the Reverend Williams in Tamworth around 1858 and remained there until his death in 1879. 

Memorial tablet in remembrance of Reverend Marly.

Marble tablet erected by parishioners & friends to the Rector of the parish who died on the 23rd September 1900 aged 40.

 Foundation stone of church dedicated to the memory of Reverend J.J.Flynn, rector of the parish. 

In 1892 land was purchased in Dickson Street for a new church but it was not until 1920 that the foundation stone was laid . The church was built as a memorial to the reverend Flynn and opened in 1921.

Erected by friends to the memory of the builder of the Wonambula Church in 1898 who died at Coonamble on the 4th January 1903. The plaque was removed to Mudgee. 

Marble tablet erected by the parishioners of Germanton to the memory of their rector of 15 years who was accidentally killed on the 30th March 1914.

 Monument to Reverend James Cameron.

Dr Cameron passed away in 1905 , having served the Richmond Congregation for over 49 years. During his ministry he had twice been Moderator of the N.S.W. Presbyterian Church, and was a great leader in many aspects of ministry. A brass memorial to his life and ministry on the front wall of the Church, and a granite monument in front of the church, commemorate his life.

Communion table and chairs dedicated to the memory of the Reverend James Carson. At the time of his death in December 1923 , he was the oldest serving Presbyterian Minister in New South Wales having served for 61 years.

 Plaque erected by the congregation in memory of Reverend James Kelly who died in 1912. The Reverend Father Kelly was drowned in Glennie's creek near Singleton in February 1912. 

Commemorates the parish priest of 1877 when the church was built. Father Love gathered into the parish community many of the Scots and Irish migrants and built a large congregation.

Stain glass window erected to commemorate his ordination of the priesthood.

The Reverend Monsignor Jerome Hennessy is remembered as a tireless worker for the advancement of Roman Catholicism in Young in the early 20th century. Ordained as a priest at the age of 26 in 1881 Monsignor Hennessy came to Young in 1889. He is credited with leading the development of many important Catholic institutions in Young, including the Sacred Heart Hospital, Mount St Joseph’s Old People’s Home, Southern Cross Hall, the kindergarten and infants school opened in 1934, and the Christian Brothers’ residence.  He died in 1941

Memorial tablet erected to Reverend John Gribble founder of the Warangesda Mission and Robert Ledger, the store keeper at the Mission. The tablet was installed in the Mission Church in 1893 and removed to St Pauls when the mission closed in 1925.

The Rev. John Brown Gribble, a miner who became a missionary, was deeply affected by his observation of the exploitation of Aboriginal women in the Riverina of NSW in the early 1870s. This led him to set up a dormitory for women and their children at Warangesda or 'Camp of Mercy' mission on the floodplain of the Murrumbidgee River.  

Gribble decided to leave his comfortable posting at Jerilderie and in 1880 arrived at a parcel of land on the Murrumbidgee which had been revoked from lease. Despite local opposition, he was granted the reserve, given permission to establish a government school for Aboriginal children, and paid a government teacher's salary.  The name for the mission was chosen around the fireside one evening, combining "Warang" the Wiradjuri word for "camp" and "esda", the last part of the scriptural "Bethesda" (Hebrew meaning "house of mercy").

By the end of 1880, Gribble was able to write a newspaper article describing the mission. At that stage, seven houses had been built inside the ten acre mission settlement, enclosed by a post and rail fence. There were 42 Aboriginal residents, of which two thirds were said to attend the school. All of the building work had been done by the Aboriginal men

Memorial plaque commemorates the first Colonial Chaplain.

Reverend Wittenoom  was an Anglican clergyman who was appointed by the British Government to be the Colonial Chaplain for the Swan River Colony from 1829. He served from when he arrived in 1830 until he died in 1855. For many years he was the only minister of any denomination in the colony and in time, the size of his flock grew from a few hundred to many thousand. He opened a small grammar school in Perth between 1847 and 1855, and was the Chairman of the Education Committee. He was a Freemason in the St. John Lodge and a JP. After he died, his widow served as the Mistress of the Perth Girls' School between 1856 and 1858.

The Davis Memorial Church building was erected in memory of Reverend John Davis, the first Presbyterian minister at "Letterewe" in 1879. 

Reverend John Davis (1854-1897) was accidentally killed at the rear of the manse at "Letterewe" by a falling tree branch on November 25 1897 at age 43. Alexander Bain exchanged the land at 'Letterewe' in 1913 for 3 acres in the growing town of Wauchope and there the 'Davis Memorial Church' was erected and opened on August 29 1918, in Campbell Street.

Bronze statue of the Reverend Dunmore Lang  was erected in 1890 by the Lang Memorial Committee of the Presbyterian Church to commemorate the achievements of this Scots emigrant clergyman and educationalist. The architect of the base of the statue was James Barnett Jnr. and the foundation stone was laid in 1888.

On 14 October 1822 , Lang sailed for Australia  paying all his own expenses. He arrived at Sydney on 23 May 1823, and very soon after gathered together a congregation and obtained the use of a hall from the government. He also set to work to obtain subscriptions to build a church, and the foundation-stone of Scots Church was laid on 1 July 1824.

Commemorates Reverend John Eggleston who was a minister of the church and active in the development of Methodism in four states

 Plaque commemorates Reverend Flynn's association with St Peter's Church. 

St Peter’s Presbyterian Church North Sydney has strong associations with Dr John Flynn known as “Flynn of the Inland”. Dr Flynn was the first Superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission (of the Presbyterian Church of Australia), founder of the Flying Doctor Service of Australia, and a past Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. He became a member and an elder of St Peter’s Church in 1914 and continued his association with the Church until his death in 1951.

 Commemorative Holy Water Stoup in memory of Reverend John Joseph Horan.

White marble tablet erected by residents of the district to the memory of Reverend John Morse, first Chaplain of the church in Scone who died in 1852.

The first rector, John Troughton, has a marble memorial plaque and his gravemarker of 1859 has been taken from Hartley Vale cemetery and installed in the church .

Reverend Troughton was drowned in 1859 while attempting to cross the River Lett on his horse. The current was very strong at the time owing to recent floods and although he called for assistance he was unable to be rescued. 

 Stain glass window erected by parishioners to the memory of Reverend Joseph Barry who died in 1897. 

Tombstone erected by the parishioners commemorates the Rector of Gundagai.

James Hunter Goble began his pastorate in Footscray in 1895. Because of his honesty, sincerity and affection as well as his stirring sermons, his services held in the Federal Hall, Footscray were attended by over 2000 people, many of them workers generally indifferent to religion.

He would not accept a stipend greater than the average workers wage, gave most of his money to the poor and visited them regularly on a special reinforced bicycle to support his 6ft 4in frame. When he died, 1000 children silently lined the roadside, ex-serviemen marched in fron to the hearse, and 168 cars follwoed the procession,while 2000 people gathered at the graveside.

The cost of the full length statue was raised by public subscription and carved in white Carrara marble by an Italian sculptor using a photograph of Goble`s head and the son`s body. When the statue was delivered several people were visibly affected as the likeness was so excellent. The statue is mounted on a 8.5 ft pedestal of dressed Harcourt grey granite and decorated with red granite columns. Unveiled by the Mayor of Footscray.

Mosaic tablet bearing his portrait and a stained glass window of the Good Samaritan commemorate Joseph Hunter Goble (1863-1932), Baptist pastor. 

Goble had become a devout Christian in his mid-teens.  Beginning as a cleaner and bell-ringer, he became a Sunday School teacher and open-air worker, then in 1884 student pastor at the Baptist church in Footscray. Goble was received into the fellowship of the Albert Park Baptist Church in 1892, and when the Baptist cause began at Port Melbourne in 1894, Joseph was one of the first Sunday school teachers. The following year a deputation from Footscray waited on him at his workplace and implored him to come as their preacher. On 3 March 1895 he began his remarkable pastorate and was minister of Footscray Baptist Church for 36 years. 

From 1926-29 Goble was first president of the Baptist Union of Australia.

Monument commemorates Reverend Joseph Rennard Orton, Wesleyan Missionary who died off Cape Horn 30th April 1842, and also Sarah his wife who died at Parramatta 26th August 1877.

After serving with distinction in Jamaica, Joseph Rennard Orton was appointed in 1831 Chairman of the New South Wales District by his superior talents and great industry. He rendered valuable service through missions to both European and Indigenous peoples. He revived the cause of Wesleyan Methodism in New South Wales and organised religious activities west of the Blue Mountains, widely in Tasmania, Victorian and into South Australia. On 24 April 1836 he became the first clergyman to preach at the site of Melbourne.

The freestanding Room of Remembrance at the Megalong Valley Uniting Church is erected on a sandstone plinth and has a skillion roof of corrugated steel. It is dedicated to the Reverend L.C.H. Barbour. 

The Revd L.C. H. Barbour had replaced C.J. Leese in 1940 as the Congregationalist minister with responsibility for the valley. Barbour was a vigorous and much-loved pastor, known as the 'Shepherd of the Valley'. He gave leadership in the successful efforts to replace the old pise building with the present church in 1943. He died in 1960. 

The future of the heritage listed Megalong Uniting Church and Remembrance Hall is doubtful as there are currently plans for its sale. 

Plaque erected to commemorate his services to the Chester Hill-Carramar RSL.

Plaque commemorates Reverend Mathew Adam.

In 1837 Mathew Adam emigrated on the Portland and established a school in Windsor. He also was ordained as a minister in New South Wales in 1839. He commenced duty with the Presbyterian Church in Windsor in 1839, an affiliation which lasted until his death in 1863. He also had an interest in the charitable work of the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and was a member for over twenty years. As well as his ministry he operated a private school for boys and a number of well known townsfolk sent their sons to Adam’s school for their education.

Stained glass window commemorates the Michael O`Connor, the first bishop of Ballarat

Stain glass window erected by 84 Children of the Sacred Heart to the memory of the founder of the Rose Bay Convent who died in 1905. 

In Australia in 1879, when the Parkes Government was preparing a Bill to make education "compulsory, secular and free", Archbishop Roger Bede Vaughan, resolved to maintain the Catholic system, invited several congregations to send teaching religious to Sydney. In 1880, he asked Father Bixio, on a visit to Europe, to transmit his request to the Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart in Paris. She in turn referred the matter to Mother Mabel Digby in England, giving her authority to treat the affair with Archbishop Vaughan, and organise the foundation. The outcome was that on April 1st, 1882, a group of five sisters embarked on the S.S. Orient, and after a long sea voyage of 39 days, arrived in Sydney on May 9th. The Superior of the group was Febronie Vercruysse, a Belgian, three were English, all converts of the Oxford Movement and one Irish .

White marble figure of St Joseph erected to commemorate the first Mother General's Religious Profession Golden Jubilee 1863-1913.

On Monday 22 October 1866 , the ship “The Empress” entered Port Jackson, bringing seven Sisters of Mercy from Charleville, County Cork , Ireland to establish the first Convent of Mercy in the Bathurst Diocese under the leadership of Mother Mary Ignatius Croke. They traveled from Sydney to Bathurst over the Blue Mountains by Cobb & Co Coach. They came at the invitation of the Right Reverend Dr Matthew Quinn, first Bishop of Bathurst.

In 1908, partly in response to developments in regard to teacher training, the other seven Convents founded from Bathurst were amalgamated under the leadership of one Superior General, Mother Mary Gertrude Sheehy. It was at this time, 8 December 1909, that the Congregation acquired the Bathurst property “Logan Brae” – renamed St Joseph’s Mount – as a central novitiate and teacher training facility

Building commemorates the diamond jubilee of the Reverend Mother Mary Conzaca Barry

Plaque erected by parishioners to the memory of Reverend Nathan Middleton Lloyd , first Rector of the Parish ( 1926-1931) who died in 1937. 

The Sanctuary Lamp is a memorial to the 9th Dean, Reverend Norman John Blow.

Tablet erected by the congregation in honour of the founder of the church.

 Mrs Hunter Baillie, a daughter of Rev. J. D. Lang, built the church with the stipulation that her nephew by marriage, the Rev. P. F. Mackenzie, should be the first Minister and have a vested interest in the church for life. When the matter was first discussed Mr Mackenzie chose Annandale for the church because it was a developing suburb, and was deficient in the supply of religious ordinances

 

Memorial tablet erected by parishioners to commemorate the Reverend Pierce Galliard Smith who was minister of St John's for fifty one years. 

Pierce Galliard Smith (1826 - 1908) was the rector at St John the Baptist Church, Reid in Canberra, Australia. He was well known for planting trees all over his 2330 square kilometre parish.

Window erected by the ladies of the parish commemorates the work of Rverend Butler 1882-1901.

 Stain glass window erected by St Michael's parishioners & friends.

Memorial window in former Presbyterian Church commemorates Reverend Redmond who instigated the establishment of a Presbyterian Church at Katoomba but died before the church was completed. 

On 9 January 1911 a meeting in Katoomba declared that ‘the Presbyterian residents in Katoomba deem that the time has come for the establishment of a Presbyterian church’ and a committee of four was set up, consisting of the local minister, the Rev. R.A. Redmond, the prominent Katoomba doctor, Alexander Allan, J. Nimmo and L. Duff. Later in 1911 vacant land on the corner of Waratah and Lurline Streets was purchased and the local people decided to proceed to build a church.

Because the new building was not fully funded, it was not possible to name it the Redmond Memorial Church and the local people settled for a stained glass window in Redmond’s honour instead.

Birdbath erected in 1965 by the Animal Welfare League and Lions Club commemorates Reverend Harris.

Rev. R. A. Harris graduated as B.A. from the University of Sydney, 1902 and Th.L. from St John's Theological College, Armidale, N.S.W. He was curate of the Church of England at Inverell, 1904-1905 and Grafton, 1905-1907, and was a chaplain in the A.I.F., 1915-1919. He retired in 1957. 

Plaque commemorates Reverend Richard Hill.

Reverend Richard Hill was ordained in London in 1813 and came to New South Wales to take up a chaplaincy in 1819. He worked initially as assistant to Reverend Cowper at St. Phillip`s Sydney, before taking charge of St. James from 1824. Aside from his involvement in the Sydney CMS, Hill was secretary of the Benevolent Society, a founder of the New South Wales Society for promoting Christian Knowledge and the Aborigines, a member of the Philosophical Society of Australasia. and sat on the committees of the Bible Society and the Australian Religious Tract Society. He was also trustee of the Male and Female Orphan Institutions and the Church and School Lands Corporation. Hill held property at Darlinghurst and in the Counties of Hunter and Northumberland. He died in the vestry of St. James on 30 May 1836.

Memorial to Reverend Robert Alexander Redmond.

Widely regarded for his oratory, Reverend Redmond could move an audience to laughter and tears, and they would come again and again to listen spellbound as he preached. His eloquence is believe to have contributed to the record fundraising effort of ₤200 for extensions to the original 1898 sandstone church in Leura. In fact such was the popularity of his sermons that even after the Leura church was enlarged to twice its original size, it was often unable to accommodate the overflow congregation that flocked to his services.

Wooden plaque erected by the congregation and friends to the memory of Reverend Redmond. 

The new parish of Leura and Wentworth Falls was created in 1904 and on 8 February 1905, four days after the opening of the Wentworth Falls church and four years after the opening of the church in Leura, R.A Redmond, from the Presbyterian church in Ireland, was inducted as the first parish minister. Redmond was come to Australia an ill man and, although the mountain air did some good, he died in 1911.

Stained glass window commemorates Reverend Robert Forrest the first headmaster of the King's School, Parramatta in the early 1840's.  He was also an assistant minister of St John's (with responsibility for the Christians meeting on the north side of Parramatta River) .

Reverend Robert Forrest,  was appointed headmaster of King's School Parramatta in 1831.  Forrest was paid a salary of £100 per annum, but it was inclusive of a land and housing grant. From fees of £28 and £8 per annum for boarders and day pupils respectively he was expected to maintain boarders and pay the salaries of his assistants, whose fees were £4 per annum for each pupil taught. According to an article in the Australian Historical Society Journal in 1903, enrolment reached over 100 pupils before the end of the first year.

By 1839, Forrest's health had deteriorated and he submitted his resignation. In 1848 Forrest returned to the school, which had now had 60 pupils, but he was again forced to resign due to illness in September 1853.

 

Memorial hall dedicated to Robert Goodman who was minister of the Ashfield Baptist Church from 1936 until his death in 1939.  

Robert Goodman was one of the outstanding ministers in the Baptist Union and was President in 1932-1933. He entered the ministry around 1909 and began work in the Wellington district. he served in many churches and also spent some time in Victoria.