All Saints Anglican Church Briagolong

All Saints Anglican Church in Briagolong dates back to 1908, where the Church was built when Briagolong’s population had reached its peak. The foundation stone of the church states that it was laid by Mrs John Mills of Powerscourt on 9^th April 1908.

The 1908 church is a fine and intact example of a Federation Gothic church style. The architectural style is exemplified by the steep gable clad in galvanised corrugated iron, dominating entrance porch at the centre of the facade, with timber tracery (with a quatrefoil motif) and pressed metal sheets to the gabled end imitating rough-cast render. The porch is entered by brick steps and one bluestone step and retains the tessellated tile floor and double timber ledged entrance doors with elaborate decorative hinges, framed by a slightly pointed-arch of radiating tuck pointed, red-brick voussoirs above. The facade has a pointed-arch window at the top of the gable-end, with a label moulding (overpainted) stopped by rosettes.

To the rear of the brick church is a weatherboard building that was formerly a church built at The Heart, in September 1884. In 1946, this building was initially relocated to the site of St Mark’s in Cobains and later in 1978, moved once more to Briagolong, where it currently serves as a hall and Sunday School.

Of further significance the church also holds the Briagolong World War 1 Anglican Church Honour Roll and a stained glass window in memory of John James Freeman, who passed away in 1958, and served as the church warden and a vestryman for 39 years.  

Join us at 8:30 am, the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month for Holy Communion.