History: Mudgee St John the Baptist Church of England Church

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1870

Mudgee St John the Baptist Church of England Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 20 August 1870, page 11

The Church of England Church and schools stand at the north-west angle of Market and Church streets. The church is 100 feet long, the east end being occupied by a large five-light stained glass window, one of the best in the country, inserted to the memory of Hrs. Elizabeth Rouse, who died on the 1st of March, 1863. The nave is lighted by eleven two-light windows in the side walls, and three at the west end, and is calculated to hold 46 adults; the choir is powerful, efficient, and in good practice. The way, however, in which children are allowed to gallop about the church at any other but service time, is not creditable to the authorities. The main entrance is through a partially erected tower on the south, the vestry being on the north1 .

1892

St John the Baptist Church of England Church Mudgee 1892 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162180350

1896

St John the Baptist Church of England Church Mudgee 1896 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71300077

1907

View of Market Street Mudgee 1907 showing CBC Bank, Town Hall & St John Church of England http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163988411

1921

Mudgee Town Hall and St Joh the Baptist Church of England Church Mudgee

1970

21 January 1970
From one church spire to another.
This is part of the panorama of the Mudgee valley that opens up for workmen involved in the restoration of St. John’s Church of England.
However, Ken Hourne is more concerned with the scaffolding to be put into place than the magnificent view of St. Mary’s Catholic Church across the way3 .

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