Talk:St Paul's Anglican Church, Carlingford

St Paul's Anglican Church Carlingford
The writer of this note has been a member of St Paul's since 1962.

According to the Wikipedia site the church is/was a "former Anglican church".

The change of name from Church of England (CofE) to Anglican came about on 24 Aug 1981, some time after the "old church on Marsden Rd" (as it is still called by St Paul's people) was sold for around $100 000 (1980).

It is correct that the congregation moved to Moseley St. However, that was via a sojourn on the site of the former CofE Boys' Homes on Pennant Hills Rd.. After an application to the Baulkham Hills Shire Council to build on the disused Boys' Homes site was rejected on the grounds of traffic issues, the church (ie the congregation) built at the corner of Moseley St and Vickery Ave, with the new building opening on 19 March 1978 (not the 1980 quoted in the current edition of the Wiki article). The church has thrived ever since, becoming one of the largest Anglican churches in Sydney.

I note that the Bishop at the time was one "Bishop William Grant Broughton". And thus he was referred to, and should be still. That was in contrast to the later "Bishop Barker". Personal conversation with Archbishop Donald William Bradley Robinson, he stated that Barker was not liked, due to his evangelical outlook, but Broughton was loved.

I note an error exists in the Wiki article about the size of the land. It is correctly described as one acre. That is 0.4 hectares, not "zero" as per the Wiki article.

I note that there is an error carried over from the first reference. One hectare is not 1.25 acres. It was and still is 2.47 etc acres. I have seen the deposited plan for the cemetery site, and it is described there as 10 000 square metres (aka 1.000 hectares.

A useful booklet was written by Rev C K (Carl) Hammond covering the history of the congregation and building from 1850 to 1950. It was then re-published as Time Will Tell by the (recently) Late Mrs Helen Craig on the occasion of the congregation's 150th birthday in April 2000. ISBN 0 646 39093 7 DavidJohnWilmshurst (talk) 07:44, 13 February 2023 (UTC)