Episode: 12
Broadcast: 29th May
Presenter: Christina Morrissy

Chrissy meets with Heritage Perth’s Richard Offen to discover the origins of Perth’s historical churches.

• The very first Anglican service to be held in Western Australia took place underneath a jarrah tree.
• In November 1829, Archdeacon Thomas Scott was marooned in Perth for twelve months, and was shocked to see that the people didn’t a house of worship for Christmas. He set to work, three weeks before Christmas and built a church partly made of wood, with rushes filling the sides, this church was appropriately named the ‘Rush Church’.
• Built in 1888, in replacement of the ‘Rush Church’, St George’s Cathedral is described as Gothic Revival and is made from local, handmade bricks from Queen’s Gardens, some of the limestone came from Fremantle and also Rottnest.
• The largest Cathedral is St Mary’s Cathedral, which was constructed in three main phases, the first phase completed in 1865. Plans were made for a replacement cathedral in the 1920s, but were interrupted by The Great Depression and Second World War; it wasn’t until the early 2000’s the expansion was completed.

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