All Saints' Church
Kingston, Norfolk Island
The new Commissariat store's first stone was laid in 1835, it has impressive flight of steps leading to the front door. It was in 1874 the Pitcairn people sort permission from Hercules...
- Denomination
- Anglican
- Region
- Norfolk Island
- Year Built
- 1835
- Architectural Style
- Church
- Heritage Status
- Heritage listed
Overview
The new Commissariat store's first stone was laid in 1835, it has impressive flight of steps leading to the front door.
It was in 1874 the Pitcairn people sort permission from Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, the Governor of New South Wales to turn the building into a church.
Materials were gathered from local and overseas sources, some of which came from England. The middle floors were removed and some stained glass windows were re-located to the eastern end. Some of the objects from the old convict Catholic and Protestant Chapels were used, such as the pulpit and altar rail from the Protestant and dark wooden matching table and chair carved with IHS from the Catholic. Pews came from both.
This church is still in use today.
History
1835
First stone laid for the Commissariat store
built1874
Permission granted to turn the building into a church
Gallery
References
- Freemen & convicts : a collection of the signs in the Kingson & Arthur's Vale Historic Area / KAVHA/Norfolk Island, 2013, pp 81 & 93Tasmanian Pictorial Church Index
- Nan Smith, Convict Kingston, Norfolk Island, 2017, p. 102Tasmanian Pictorial Church Index
Services
still in use
Open
Not recorded
Address
Quality Row, Kingston, Norfolk Island 2899
Contact
Not recorded
Accessibility
Not recorded
