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Category Archives: Richmond

Congregational cemetery & (site of) Congregational Church (1), Richmond

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Monissa Whiteley

Torrens St, Richmond. Google Maps.
Church opened 1845. Replaced by a newer building in Bridge St in 1875.

The Courier, 3 December 1845

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St Luke’s Anglican Church, Richmond

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Monissa Whiteley

Opened c. 1836
Church St, Richmond. Google Maps

Photos:
Stereograph, 1865
1928
Interior, c.1970

Organ (and better photos)

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Congregational Church (2), Richmond

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Monissa Whiteley

Bridge St, Richmond. Google Maps
Stone laid 1873. Opened 1875, replacing an earlier chapel.

More photos and background information

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St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Richmond

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Monissa Whiteley

Opened 1837. Apparently extended 1859. (Addition of tower/entrance?).
Sign in front of the tree says:

St John The Evangelist
Catholic Church
1836
Australia’s Oldest Existing Catholic Church
MASS TIMES
1st & 3rd Sunday of the month 8.30am
2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday of the month 11am

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Posted in Church: Catholic, Richmond • Tagged interior • 2 Comments

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Church Photos
The aim of this project is to get a photo of every church in Tasmania, with a very broad definition of "church". Some of these photos
have been taken from the window of a car in passing. Some of these have been taken when was I able to walk through the building and take my time over composing photos. Most of them are somewhere in between :)

I am working through an eleven year backlog of photos (currently up to 2009), trying to add some every night.

Cemetery Photos
I also take photos of headstones around churches and cemeteries, because they're interesting. There is no attempt to provide photos of all headstones in any cemetery I visit because there are other sites that do that better page. If there only a small number of headstones, I'll try to take photos of all of them but otherwise it's just whatever catches my attention. I was including transcriptions in the posts, but I found it was taking too much time (hours for each post) and I'd rather put that time into putting up church photos.

(Although I'm happy to include transcription that might be useful or of interest to someone else. I just don't want to spend hours doing it for no purpose. So if you're interested in what a particular stone or two says, ask and I'll see if I can read it on the larger original. Although note the comment about comments above. The spam filters have sharp teeth.)