No. 1552 - Cressy - Holy Trinity Sunday School (1895) and Parish Hall (1828)
This article is one of a series about buildings associated with Tasmania’s historical churches. These buildings include Sunday schools, parish halls, convents, schools and residences of the clergy. Ancillary buildings are often overlooked and rarely feature in published histories. My aim is to create a simple record of these buildings, including those which no longer exist. Cressy is a small country town approximately 15 kilometres south of Longford. The town’s name is taken from the Cressy Company, which was established in England in the 1820s to run large agricultural farms in the colony. In 1858 Cressy’s Holy Trinity Anglican church was built to replace a small church which stood at Bell Post Hill. The new church was substantially replaced by the present church which was built in 1894. A Sunday school hall was built in the church grounds in 1895 as was reported in Launceston’s Daily Telegraph: “The building, which is made of wood, is lined throughout with Tasmanian hardwood. It has