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Part of a suite of projects this project forms a section of "Religion in Colonial Australia 1788 to 1901".
New South Wales
- Christ Church - King Town, Hunter's River
- St Andrew's - WIndsor
- St James' - Sydney
- St John's CofE - Parramatta
A description dated one week after the opening of St John's Parramatta was published in "The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser" of Sunday 17 April 1803:
"On Sunday last St. JOHN'S CHURCH, at Parramatta, was opened, and Divine Service performed by the Rev. Mr. MARSDEN ; who delivered an excellent Sermon on the following Text, " But will GOD in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I have built !" II. Chron. c. vi. v. 18 : In the course of which he made some animated allusions to the structure of Solomon's Temple, and afterwards gradually traced the progress of Religion in succeeding ages, adverting to the many solid advantages that must be necessarily derived to this Colony, from a proper observance of the duties of christianity, and a religious worship.
The concourse of persons that attended from all parts of the Colony, and the becoming silence that prevailed, added much to the solemnity of the service. Many Ladies of the first respectability were present, some of whom went purposely from Sydney; and the Military Detachment on duty at Parramatta, were also partakers at the sacred festival.
St. John's Church may justly be stiled the finest building in the Colony ; the paintings are well designed, and tolerably executed. The Altar Piece, tho' somewhat heavy, is nevertheless entitled to praise. The pews are not yet put up, but when they are, it will certainly become a handsome, well-finished, and commodious place of worship."
- St Luke's - Liverpool
- St Peter's - Campbelltown
- St Philip's - Sydney
Norfolk Island
Port Macquarie
Queensland
Tasmania
- St John's CofE - Launceston Foundation stone laid December 1824 by Lieut Gov Sir George Arthur. Consecrated Feb 1827.