allsaintschurch

It looks much changed Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/8kDYFM #googleearth

Happy New Year!

Happy 2022 all! Streetview Per the NIAH:This well-composed Board of First Fruit church has undergone several alterations, having been enlarged a number of times in the nineteenth century and partly destroyed by fire in 1966, following which the north aisle was completely rebuilt. The lady with the massive hat suggests the first half of the date range to me.

Board of First Fruit is a great name.

"All Saints’ occupies an unusual place in the life of the Church of Ireland. It was the first church within the Church of Ireland to participate in the Catholic Revival movement, later known as the Tractarian Movement. This movement emphasised the importance of the sacraments, the liturgy and the doctrine of the Church."

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"...The single station on the branch line when it opened was called Haslem's Creek Cemetery. Its name was changed to Necropolis prior to 1872 and changed again to Mortuary General Cemetery on 16th July 1897. It was then changed to Cemetery Station No 1 15th June 1908 when the Roman Catholic Platform, which had been opened on 31st December 1901, had its name changed to Cemetery Station No 2. Mortuary Station No 3, which opened on 26th May 1897, became known as Mortuary Terminus two months later. Its name was changed to Cemetery Station No. 3 in June 1908 to create uniformity between the station names within the cemetery. The line's name was changed to the Rookwood branch line on 1st January 1914. No trace remains of it today except for the points and a short section of track that led to the cemetery line beyond Lidcombe station. The No. 1 Mortuary Station was constructed in 1864 and remained in use as the main station until the line's closure in December 1948. It was used as a chapel until 1958 when a fire gutted its interior. The Gothic-style building was then dismantled and re-erected stone by stone in Canberra as All Saints Anglican Church in the parish of Ainslie . The Redfern Mortuary Terminal, Regent Street, Redfern, from which trains left the city on their journey to Rookwood, was opened in 1869 and closed simultaneously with No 1 Mortuary Station at Rookwood Cemetery. St Paul's Anglican Church (which is today The Greek Orthodox Church), 242 Cleveland Street, Redfern, was the church where Anglican funeral services were held prior to the departure of funeral trains from the nearby Mortuary Station..."

The siding into the cemetery is only "beyond" Lidcombe, if you are coming from Parramatta.

Governor Macquarie Thanks for the extra information. -AG

I must get up to N'cassel again.