Huon Hwy, Castle Forbest Bay. Approximate location, Google maps.
St Peter’s Hall, Hobart
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”.
Methodist/Uniting Church, Woodbridge
Union Chapel, Woodbridge
The Union Chapel, near the Cemetery, was built in 1858 on half an acre given by Mr Joseph Davies for a place of public worship and shared by the Protestants for many years. Parts of the old Government House in Hobart were used in the construction. In 1884 the Church of England withdrew to build St Simon and St Jude. The Wesleyans continued to worship there till the major bushfire of 1897 when the chapel was burnt. Today the old cemetery marks the site and the lives of first settlers.
(site of) Wesleyan Chapel, Longford
107 Wellington St, Longford. Google maps.
Opened 1837
Closed & demolished with opening of new church in High St, 1880
Sunday School constructed on site c.1902
Now privately owned.
The Longford Methodist Church, or, as it was then known, the Wesleyan Methodist Society, was founded in 1834 at a meeting convened by Rev. J. A. Manton, of Launceston, and held in a barn on a farm adjoining Northbury. The first enrolled was Mr. William Mason, grandfather of the present families of that name associated with the church. The next was Mrs. George Gould, and the last surviving member of that little band was Mrs. J. Bonner, of Scottsdale, who died in 1923 at the age of 92 years.
Progress was rapid, and Mr. Man ton later wrote: “At the town of Longford, in the district of Norfolk Plains, our prospects are very encouraging. We are building there a good, substantial chapel.” This chapel was opened in 1837, free of debt. According to Mr. Manton, “The congregation was large and respect able and the collection very good amounting to £350.” At the end of 1848 Longford was created a circuit separate from Launceston.
Two years previously the first Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School had been commenced at Longford, but it was not until after the union of the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Churches that the present Sunday School was erected. This building stands on the site of the first Wesleyan Chapel, which after 40 years began to show signs of decay and was replaced by a new church building in 1880.
The Examiner, 9 June 1934
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St Augustine’s Catholic Church, Longford
Cnr Goderich & Smith Streets, Longford. Google Maps.
Opened 1867.
Cemetery is a block over to to the north west.
Catholic Cemetery, Longford
Cnr Howick & Park Streets, Longford. Google Maps.
St Augustine’s Catholic Church is a block over, to the south east.
Photos and transcriptions available here. Photos also on Northern Midlands Council database.
(former) Baptist Tabernacle, Longford
41-43 Wellington St, Longford. Google Maps.
Constructed & opened 1880, to the same design as the Deloraine Tabernacle.
Now a funeral parlour.
Chapel, Woolmers
Built 1840s.
Extended to one side, when it was converted to an apple packing shed. Original roofline can still be seen at top of walls.
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Anglican Cemetery, Longford.
Wellington St, Longford, around Christ Church. Google Maps.
Individual headstones & burial details are available in the Northern Midlands database
Longford Church Sir,-Now that the authorities of Christ Church, Longford, have the cleaning-up and improving of the church grounds well in hand, they are anxious to get into touch with friends or relatives having interest in the burial ground adjoining the church, with a view to having graves put in order. A number of graves have recently been done up; there are others which it is felt friends would desire to have attended to, and we are enlisting the courtesy of your columns to that end, as in many cases we are unable to trace addresses of relatives. The burial ground contains a large number of graves of historic interest, going back as it does to the beginning of the last century, and we should glad indeed to have the co-operation of all those who desire to see the old memorials preserved and kept in order. The committee for this purpose consists of Mr. G. W. Hudson, Mr. C. P. Ede and the rector, with any of whom communication may be made. A similar effort is being made in connection with the old church burial ground at Perth. W. H. MacFARLANE. Rector of Longford and Perth.
The Examiner, 29 November 1941
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