No. 1613 - Deloraine - St Mark's Anglican Parsonage (1865)
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 of those that no longer exist.
Deloraine is a historic tourist town situated on the Meander River and lies approximately halfway between the cities of Launceston and Devonport. The settlement dates to the 1830s and was named by the surveyor, Thomas Scott, after Sir William Deloraine, a character in Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel”.
The first Anglican church at Deloraine was a wooden structure built in 1845. In 1856 William Bonney donated land for a brick church to be built on a new site. The foundation stone was laid on 11 March 1856. The church was completed in March 1859 and was opened by Archdeacon Reibey. Five years later plans to construct a ‘parsonage’ were advanced with half an acre “alienated to the parishioners of Deloraine”. In December 1864 tenders were invited for the construction of a “parsonage house”.
The building was completed in 1865 and the first resident was Reverend Canon Edward Patten Adams (1832-1894) who was appointed to the Deloraine district in 1862. Adams was to remain as Minister at St Mark’s for 17 years and the well appointed parsonage accommodated his wife Barbara [Bethune] and their 12 children.
St Mark’s parsonage (later becoming a rectory), is a heritage listed building. It is described as a “two storey stuccoed building with steeply pitched gabled roofs, towering chimneys, casement windows and decorated barge boards and finials”. The section on the right of the house is a later addition. The architect and contractor is not known but the building strongly resembles the demolished Catholic presbytery at Westbury (1860) which may have been designed by Henry Hunter.
The building was sold by the Anglican church some years back and is being restored by its current owners.
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Deloraine is a historic tourist town situated on the Meander River and lies approximately halfway between the cities of Launceston and Devonport. The settlement dates to the 1830s and was named by the surveyor, Thomas Scott, after Sir William Deloraine, a character in Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel”.
The first Anglican church at Deloraine was a wooden structure built in 1845. In 1856 William Bonney donated land for a brick church to be built on a new site. The foundation stone was laid on 11 March 1856. The church was completed in March 1859 and was opened by Archdeacon Reibey. Five years later plans to construct a ‘parsonage’ were advanced with half an acre “alienated to the parishioners of Deloraine”. In December 1864 tenders were invited for the construction of a “parsonage house”.
The building was completed in 1865 and the first resident was Reverend Canon Edward Patten Adams (1832-1894) who was appointed to the Deloraine district in 1862. Adams was to remain as Minister at St Mark’s for 17 years and the well appointed parsonage accommodated his wife Barbara [Bethune] and their 12 children.
St Mark’s parsonage (later becoming a rectory), is a heritage listed building. It is described as a “two storey stuccoed building with steeply pitched gabled roofs, towering chimneys, casement windows and decorated barge boards and finials”. The section on the right of the house is a later addition. The architect and contractor is not known but the building strongly resembles the demolished Catholic presbytery at Westbury (1860) which may have been designed by Henry Hunter.
The building was sold by the Anglican church some years back and is being restored by its current owners.
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| A photograph of the rectory taken in 1965, probably taken for the building's centenary. Photograph posted in Deloraine District - Memories and Pictorial History (Facebook) but source of publication is not given. |
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| Launceston Examiner, December 1864. Dr Dennis Rock, a medical doctor and magistrate was for many years a lay-reader at St Mark's Anglican church |
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| Edward Patten Adams headstone at St Mary's Anglican church, Hagley - Photograph: Julie Henderson & Lacey Milier - findagrave.com |
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| Photograph: Harcourts Real Estate Deloraine |
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| Photograph: Harcourts Real Estate Deloraine |
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| Photograph: Harcourts Real Estate Deloraine |
Sources:
The Cornwall Chronicle, Saturday 6 August 1864, page 3
Launceston Examiner, Thursday 29 December 1864, page 2
The [Hobart] Advertiser, Wednesday 5 April 1865, page 3
Launceston Examiner, Tuesday 5 June 1894, page 6
Tasmanian Heritage Register Datasheet, St Mark's Anglican Rectory, THR ID Number: 4788
History of St. Mark's Church, 1847-1909 : Deloraine, Tasmania / compiled by G. Scott from research undertaken by Rev. G. Lennard.
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