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.
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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Cnr Goderich & Smith Streets, Longford. Google Maps.
Opened 1867.
Cemetery is a block over to to the north west.
41-43 Wellington St, Longford. Google Maps.
Constructed & opened 1880, to the same design as the Deloraine Tabernacle.
Now a funeral parlour.
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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Wellington St, Longford. Google Maps.
Opened 1845, replacing an older brick building.
Graveyard is behind and around the church.
Website
A Short Account of Christ Church, Longford
Window
Organ & photos
Wellington St, Longford, near current church. Google Maps.
Opened c.1831
Demolished c.1844 with the opening of Christ Church.
From A Short Account of Christ Church, Longford, the drawing “is made from the south of the [current] Church and shows the great window. The old Church is seen behind and more to the north; it was pulled down as soon as the other was in use, and the bricks were used for the building of the Sunday School, which seems to have been finished by December, 1845.”
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5 Mertonvale Circuit, Kingston. Google Maps.
Timeline from Our history: Kingborough Life Church:
1st August 1993 Blackman’s Bay Christian Community Church, of the Reformed Church, at the Blackman’s Bay Scout Hall
October 1997 left the Reformed Churches of Australia to be independent
1999 became part of the Hobart Christian Life Centre at Bellerive and Kingborough, part of the Australian Christian Churches formerly Assemblies of God
1 September 1999 moved into a Pizza Hut building in Browns Road
June 2000 moved into the Sea Scouts Hall in Kingston.
2003 purchased a disused carpet warehouse in Mertonvale Circuit & renovated it to include a church auditorium and two level Youth and Kids ministry facilities
23 November 2003 celebrated the opening of new building
138 Abbott St, Newstead. Google Maps.
Opened 1941.
From Launceston Historical Society’s “20th Century Churches in Launceston”:
Closed 1988. Was an outpost of Chalmers’ Presbyterian Church. Originally known as Chalmers’ Newstead, in 1965 the church became known at St Stephen’s, Newstead. In 1988 the congregation moved to Chant Street Uniting Church of Australia. Window high up on west wall was originally top sash of a window in Scots National Church, Charles Street.
