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Stawell Historical Society IncBook, Celebrating 100 Years of Worship in this Church, 2011
History for the Uniting Church Great Western. Taken from records at Ararat, Stawell and Great WesternWhite Card Cover with colour photo of a churchChrist Church Great Western Celebrating 100 years of worship in this church Sunday, 15th, May 2011 Great western came into existence with a gold rush in February 0f 1858, when the Church of England represented by Rev. Philip Homan. He travelled around a large district which included Great Western. There he baptised children in the tents of the miners and Married Thomas Metcalfe and Caroline Bale. Today their Descendants, the Bullock and Hurley Families still live in Great Westernreligion -
Stawell Historical Society IncPhotograph, Presbyterian Church, Reefs Pleasant Creek, built 1860
Presbyterian Church Reefs Pleasant Creek. Built 1860. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell in 1866 for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. This first Presbyterian church was built in Church Street and was of a modest design as it was to be only a temporary house of worship. The first services were held here on Sunday, August the 23rd, 1860. The present church, St Matthews Uniting Church is situated in Scallon Street and the first service were held there in 1869. House on left with picket fence and striped verandah roofing. Wooden Church Building on right.stawell religion
