29 Bathurst St, Hobart. Google Maps.
Opened 1835, to replace a smaller stone church.
Photo
Interior
Lithograph
Coloured lithograph, 1844
Map of block bounded by Campbell, Bathurst, Argyle & Brisbane Streets
29 Bathurst St, Hobart. Google Maps.
Opened 1835, to replace a smaller stone church.
Photo
Interior
Lithograph
Coloured lithograph, 1844
Map of block bounded by Campbell, Bathurst, Argyle & Brisbane Streets
Collins Street, between Argyle and Campbell Streets, Hobart
c1856 -1904
Constructed as a temperance hall and school house, and occasional services. It appears on Jarman’s 1858 map of Hobart as a Catholic church/chapel
The land appears Sprent’s survey map from the 1840s as reserved for “Reserved for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Community to be used as Temperance Hall and a Sunday School & occasionally for a place of Worship. Whenever the building ceases to be used for the above purpose the land to revert to the Crown”.
57 Argyle St, Hobart. Google Maps.
Opened 1845.
Photos 1961: Interior & Exterior
Map, block bounded by Bathurst, Campbell, Liverpool and Argyle Streets
Rear of 29 Bathurst St, Hobart (closer to Melville St). Google Maps
Opened 1824.
Replaced in 1835 by the larger St Andrews/Scots Church.
Now St Andrews Hall, behind the newer church.
Cnr Brisbane & Campbell Sts, Hobart. Google Maps.
Opened 1833 on a site adjoining the prisoner barracks, later city gaol. It was used as a chapel for the prisoners and to cater for the free population that had grown too large for St David’s. Anglican services but never consecrated, due to its association with the prisoners. For more information, visits one of the links below.
(Unofficial) Web site
Companion to Tasmanian History
National Trust page for visiting details.
Lithograph, 1834
Proposed entrance.
Collins St, between Campbell & Argyle Sts, Hobart
From “My Primitive Methodist Ancestors”, (Hobart Wesley Museum collection?)
Another photo on LINC
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47 Davey Street, Hobart. Google Maps.
Opened 1857, replacing Collins St Independent Chapel.
For sale in 2012
163 Macquarie St,Hobart. Google Maps.
Opened 1841, as the first permanent Catholic church in Hobart, and acted as the cathedral before St Mary’s was completed.
Background to development of Catholic churches in Hobart.
Drawing, 1843
Lithograph, 1844
Two postcards
Interior, stereograph, c.1865
7 Campbell St, Hobart. Google Maps.
Built as a mission church associated with St David’s. Opened in 1885.
Became a Mission to Seaman station in 1915, until the 1950s.
A TIMELINE
In 1822 a wooden chapel was constructed on the corner of Brisbane & Harrington St, near the present site of St Mary’s Cathedral.
As far back as 1817 Father Flynn called at the settlement, on his voyage from England to Sydney, and administered the sacrament, and four years later Father Connolly arrived and commenced his work. He celebrated mass at Mr. Curr’s store in Argyle-street, and there the congregation consisted of nine persons. Services were subsequently held in the old building in Elizabeth-street, known to us in later years as “Rats’ Castle.” Father Connolly having obtained a grant of 14 acres of land at the angle of Harrington and Brisbane streets, called it Mount Carmel, and in February, 1822, a small wooden church was commenced. It was finished in the following year, and dedicated to God, under the invocation of St. Virgilius.
The Mercury, 31 December 1904
Preceding this activity was the work of Father Connolly, accredited by the Colonial
Office in 1820 to Van Diemen’s Land, where the Inadequate weatherboard chapel of St.
Virgil which he was ‘ permitted to erect in 1822 functioned until 1836.
22 December 1941
About 1825 land was provided for the Catholic cemetery
It may not be generally known, that, adjoining the Roman Catholic Chapel in Hobart Town, a large site of ground has been given by Government as its burial-place.—Several persons have already been interred there; among whom was Private Thomson, of the 40th, who was followed to the grave on Saturday last by a detachment of that company.
Colonial Times, 19 August 1825
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