St George's Chapel-of-Peace

This new church replaced the old St George's Chapel-of-Ease. Fund raising began in 1911 and the foundation stone was laid in November of that year. It was consecrated in May 1912 by Bishop Mercer.

*St. George's church is a really

beautiful building, reflecting great credit

on the architect (Mr. Alan Walker, of

Hobart) and has been well and care-

ully built by the Messrs. Fyle, Bros. ,

of New Norfolk. A good offertory was taken up in aid

of the building fund.*

The photograph shows a Lychgate at the entrance which indicated a burial ground beyond. The term lych evolved from the Saxon word for corpse, and the lych gate was traditionally a place where corpse bearers carried the body of a deceased person and laid it on a communal bier. The priest would then carry out the first part of a burial ceremony under the shelter of the lych gate roof.