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Mudgee Wesleyan Church

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1866

16 July 1866

Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1866
Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1866
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16 July 1866
NEW WESLEYAN CHURCH MUDGEE.
THIS neat and commodious building, recently erected by the Wesleyan residents of Mudgee, is built of brick, in the early English Gothic style, with pointed windows and moulded doorways. The central doorway has deeply moulded caps and bases. The arches of the windows are picked out in red brick. The buttresses are of brick, finished with stone dressings. The church will accommodate 350 persons. M. G. Allen Mansfield, of this city, was the architect, and Mr. Winter of Mudgee, the contractor2 .

1870

Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1870
Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1870
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The Wesleyan Church has the most showy exterior, and would be the handsomest if it were a bay or two longer. It is in brick with stone dressings/the north end being very effective, with three entrances, the main central being pointed, well moulded, and recessed, and tho flanking doorways being flatheaded. It is well lighted ever the doorways Ly a triplet, two lancets, and arose window. The mouldings have an early decorated character ; but the general style is early English. A flight of five steps, with ramps, give a character of ascent to the building, buttresses dividing it into three bays, and terminating in pinnacles, tho gable being finished by a ponderous cross in a circle4 .

1880

30 October 1880

Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1880
Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1880
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1892

Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1892
Mudgee Wesleyan Church 1892
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1905

6 September 1905
The churches of Mudgee are fine edifices, the clergy being as follows: Wesleyan, Rev. F. Branch7 .

References

1 NEW WESLEYAN CHURCH MUDGEE. (1866, July 16). Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872), p. 9. Retrieved May 4, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63513006
2 NEW WESLEYAN CHURCH MUDGEE. (1866, July 16). Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872), p. 9. Retrieved August 27, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63513006
3 Jottings by the Way. (1870, August 20). Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), p. 12. Retrieved December 28, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70461473
4 Jottings by the Way. (1870, August 20). Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), p. 12. Retrieved December 28, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70461473
5 TO HOLD AS TWERE THE MIRROR UPTO NATURE OUR ILLUSTRATIONS Views in Mudgee. (1880, October 30). Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier (NSW : 1872 - 1881), p. 4. Retrieved May 5, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64973864
6 Visit of his Excellency the Governor to Mudgee. (1892, May 28). The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), p. 1220. Retrieved May 4, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162180350
7 Mudgee.—The Centre of a Fertile District. (1905, September 6). Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), p. 26. Retrieved May 27, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71534258

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