Holy Trinity Anglican Church

Anglican Church at Wattle Flat NSW.

This beauty was built in around 1870 from local stone and has stood the test of time as the walls are double thickness.

It has recently had a new roof, unfortunately it is no longer used and the interior is in bad shape.   

It still has all of its lead light windows with only two that have missing parts.

The church was pretty nice but the graveyard drew me in with all its wrought iron fencing and large head stones.

I came back to this headstone more than once, the verse at the bottom made me smile and the craftsmanship at the top is truly impressive.  

I have not seen a lot of headstones with verses, its usually just in loving memory of... and the dates.

This old church is now privately owned, dont know if the graveyard came with it but probably not.

Maybe the next time we head out that way the church will be a new home for someone.

Happy Adventures Nicole, Andrew & Sally Girl

St Marys Church

St Marys Church 

This old church is about 10km before you get the Goulburn turn off on your way to Sydney.

The roof has had a little damage. 

Andrew like's to go detecting, hoping to find old coins or other old rusty treasure.

I like to photograph interesting things and Sally Girl likes to drag me around so she can sniff everything, makes it hard when your trying to take photos i can tell ya.

As you can see from the rubble inside and the build up of dirt, the roof has been down for quite some time.

It is made from stone with bricks at the top and bottom of the windows.

The outside stone was once white washed. We did find some small pieces of glass and lead from the windows.  

Some of the things that were found were hand forged nails, lots of wire and rubbish like bottle caps.

But the best find was an old Goulburn Cordial bottle and these i collect so was pretty happy about that, especially as it was not broken or chipped.

Once it had an iron roof and some sort of render on the inside walls.

This old church stands on private land, however you can visit it but you must close the gate and not venture onto the rest of the property.

On the other side of the gate stands the cemetery.

I find old cemetery's to be so interesting. Old headstones, family plots with generations of family buried along side each other. I have found a lot of the early graves are mostly children. Some times they say how they died, and they nearly always put exactly how old they were, like 10 years and 4 months. And husbands usually died a long time before their wives.

  

Happy Adventures Nicole, Andrew & Sally Girl

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