City of Darebin Heritage Study Volume 1 Draft Thematic

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DAREBIN HERITAGE STUDY STAGE 2Figure 70Laying foundation stone at Holy TrinityAnglican Church, Thornbury, 1916.[DHE, ID558]PresbyterianThe Presbyterians did not have a presence in Darebin until 1870, when they commencedworshipping in the new Northcote Methodist Church. In 1874 they built a manse for theirminister on the corner of Ross and Cunningham Streets, and a weatherboard church inWestgarth Street in 1876. Although the Northcote Presbyterian community was small, theirminister, Rev. Duncan Fraser, was influential. It was he who initiated the Northcote HealthLeague, which eventually succeeded in ridding Northcote of its noxious trades and forming theBorough of Northcote, as discussed above (‘Glimpses of Our Past’,1988:16; Lemon, 1983:72).The Presbyterians branched out from Westgarth Street, to commence a church in David StreetSouth in 1892, and further churches in Regent and Reservoir in the 1920s (Carroll & Rule,1985:111-12).Figure 71Presbyterian Church,40-42 James Street, Northcote, 1894.[DHE, ID 365]Roman CatholicLike the Presbyterians, the Catholics were in a minority in nineteenth century Darebin andwere late to establish parishes. In 1887, Bradford Hall in High Street was made available forthe celebration of Mass for Preston’s Catholics. The first Catholic Church, Sacred Heart in BellStreet, was a wooden building, opened by Archbishop Carr in 1889. The building was replacedwith the present large brick church in 1926. The old wooden church was moved to ViolaStreet Reservoir and became St Gabriel’s (Forster, 1968:29; Carroll & Rule, 1985:112-3).102
VOLUME 2: THEMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORYIn 1891, a small wooden church in Arthurton Road Northcote was opened and was extendedover the next few years. Darebin came under the Clifton Hill Mission until 1893, when thedistrict of Northcote and Preston was formed as a distinct mission under the charge of FatherThomas Brazil. In 1897, a more suitable site was acquired in Westbourne Grove on Rucker’sHill. The new St Joseph’s Church was opened by Archbishop Carr in 1917. The CatholicChurch built a number of other churches in Darebin in the twentieth century to meet theneeds of Catholics in new communities as urban expansion spread (Darebin HistoricEncyclopedia; Lemon, 1983:112).Figure 72Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Bell Street,Preston(image date unknown)[DHE, ID 428]Twentieth century revivalAs the economy revived after the 1890s depression and urban settlement re-commenced, somenew denominations also arrived in Darebin. The Churches of Christ, an evangelical revivalistdenomination of American origin, formed a church in Preston in 1902 and bought land inHigh Street. In 1911 the members expressed the enthusiasm of the new age through theAmerican tradition of building a church in one day. On Saturday 23 March, 150 peopleworked on building the neat timber chapel, and by midnight it was finished. The first servicewas held the following morning. It is believed to be the first church in Australia built in a day(Carroll & Rule, 1985:114; Darebin Historic Encyclopedia).Figure 73Church of Christ, Preston – builtin one day in March 1911[DHE, ID 427]103
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