Bendigo – White Hills Uniting Church - Victoria - 1853

While on our first trip into the city, we passed these two buildings, so, of course I had to stop and take a picture or two.  I was not able to find any sign which told me anything about the church or hall, however, here they are. 

The cream building is now the church hall, however it may have been the church before the red brick one as built.  As Bendigo has a rather large timber church in the CBD, maybe the timber hall was the church, built before all that gold hit the town!  Who knows?  

 

Bendigo - View Hill Fellowship - Victoria - C1890 - 1920

This wee church sits on a small hill in the city of Bendigo. 

The sign reads “ View Hill Fellowship – House of True Light. Anglican Diocese of Bendigo. Previously All Saints Old Cathedral.A congregation of  the Church of Bendigo.”

I was not able to determine the date this church was built, however, as the style is similar to many of the older buildings around Bendigo I would hazard a guess at Circa 1890 – 1920s.  It appears the church is now used by the Chinese people of Bendigo.  I was particularly taken with the windows which have an Asian influence in the colour they are painted.

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Clunes – St Pauls Anglican Church - 1871 Victoria

After arriving in Clunes and finding out the Information Centre was closed until Thursday, we drove around the corner and along the road in search of  the church.  The entry road to the church is at the rear,  along a path next to the old church hall, past a huge tree, and there St Pauls, an Anglican church built in 1871,  sits in all it’s wonderful old bluestone glory;  high up on the hill, overlooking the town of Clunes.  The church looks forlorn, and stuck to a plain white board was a notice detailing the church session time, each Sunday at 8am.   No foundation stone or plaque could be found explaining when the church was built.  Often we find a small plaque (placed by members of the Congregation or town Historical society), attached to old churches or halls the we are interested in, that sheds light on the who, what, when, where and why of a building.

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The Church Hall is built in a very unusual style ; it is large and made of timber weatherboard, painted cream with a small bell tower, (bell in situ), and vertically installed rectangular shaped windows, which are painted green.  A huge tree with a very large, recently broken limb, still partially attached to the main trunk ,shades the old hall.  No details of how old the Church Hall is, could be found.

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Carisbrook – Uniting Church - Victoria (circa late 18oos)

Another church in the town of Carisbrook, is the Uniting Church, which may have been a member of the Presbyterian ministry before becoming a member of the Uniting Church in the later years of last century. 

Carisbrook is a small town north west of Ballarat, on the  (B180) Pyrenees Highway, between Castlemaine and Maryborough.

 

Carisbrook - St Pauls Anglican Church - 1866 - Victoria

  

Today we decided to go back along the road we took  when we travelled from Bendigo to Ballarat, last Wednesday.  As we had decided to use the GPS to direct us to Ballarat, we actually ended up taking the wrong road, yes, those who have a GPS know all about getting lost! 

Yep, we ended up being lost; however, that was not a bad thing as we passed a few churches along the way, hence today's return trip.    We wanted to actually stop and look at the churches, go into them if we could, and to certainly take a few photographs.  So, here is the first of them.

This church is in Carisbrook, a small town north west of Ballarat, on the  (B180) Pyrenees Highway, between Castlemaine and Maryborough.