St Patrick's Catholic church Church Hill (original) (raw)

Place of worship

St Patrick's church, Sydney c1910

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(J. H. Harvey collection of lantern slides)

Royal Australian Historical Society Green Plaque 36. St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of St Patrick's Roman Catholic church between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Architect

Hilly, John Frederick

Surveyor and architect who designed churches and public buildings in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney.

Priest

McEncroe, John

Irish priest who opposed transportation and strenuously advocated the rights of the working man. Despite upheaval between the Irish and English orders of the church he was held in high esteem by Protestants and Catholics alike.

St Patrick's Catholic church Church Hill

An early focus for the Irish Catholic community in Sydney, St Patrick's became a symbol of Irish pride. Thousands of worshippers, carrying green flags, marched through the city to its foundation stone-laying ceremony in 1840.

Dunn, Mark

Mark Dunn is a professional historian working in Sydney. From 2010 to mid-2012 he was Dictionary of Sydney writer-in-residence sponsored by the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

St Patrick's Church 'The stone work of this exquisite specimen of 'Ecclesiastical Architecture' is now completed' 1843

Church Hill, Sydney c1870s

From the collections of the

(Mitchell Library)

St. Patrick's Church & Convent 1901

From the collections of the

(Mitchell Library)

Alpen, Hugo

Alpen influenced the musical culture of Sydney through his composition, teaching and conducting. As Superintendent of Music for New South Wales public schools, he emphasised singing and listening as part of music training for all students.

Education

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry and middle classes. Sydney became the centre of education in the colony, with a university, and eventually in 1880, universal education throughout the suburbs of the growing city.

Millers Point

Called Ta-Ra by its first inhabitants, the Cadigal, Millers Point was named for the windmills that were built on its heights, and their owner, John Leighton, known as Jack the Miller. By the 1850s Millers Point was a maritime enclave, with almost all residents and employers focused on the wharves and the trade they brought. Through plague, depression and war, the community at Millers Point retained its cohesion, but the changes brought by gentrification are harder to predict.

Religion

Religion has had a profound influence on the geography, culture, politics, and artistic life of Sydney. While religion has mostly been a conservative force, preserving traditions transported from home societies, it has also reflected the setting and people of Sydney, its harbour, bushland and suburbs.

Sacred Heart Catholic church Darlinghurst

Two church buildings have served this parish, one of Sydney's earliest and most diverse. Services in Spanish and Portuguese were conducted from the nineteenth century, serving the local immigrant community. In 2004 the site became part of Notre Dame University Sydney.

St Brigid's Catholic church Millers Point

One of Sydney's oldest churches, St Brigid's Catholic church continues to serve its parishioners in Millers Point. Once known as St Bridget's, the church and school were run by religious of many orders.

International Eucharistic Congress 1928

A huge celebration of international Catholicism, the International Eucharistic Congress was held in Sydney in 1928, coinciding with the consecration of the newly finished St Mary's Cathedral. Despite Protestant disquiet and fears of sectarian conflict, the Congress was a peaceful success, with large crowds attending its public events.

Irish in Sydney from First Fleet to Federation

A large part of Sydney's European community from its earliest days, the Irish helped shape the colony and its cultural and religious institutions. While many Irish immigrants, both convict and free, prospered and flourished in Sydney throughout the nineteenth century, they rarely forgot their homeland and its struggles, and remained a community which never thought of England as 'home'.

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