• Title
  Former Catholic Church used as the Catholic School (adjacent to the new Catholic Church within the Church reserve), with teacher James Dillon, left
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 2 /no. 18257
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1870-1875
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  62148
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 negative - glass - Quarter plate
  
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Out of copyright
• Description source
  
  LR plan #95
  Ref. "Story of Gulgong" 1978, pp. 16, 19 & 63
  This building has been identified as the Union Church in several publications in and outside of Gulgong. There are only a few references to the Union Church in the very early days of Gulgong, supposedly erected by the miners because the other major religions had not established churches at that time. The Union Church was built by the miners between Herbert Street and Medley Streets about where Anzac Park is today. The church was used by all religions until they built churches of their own, and the last to use it were the Congregationalists until their church was built in Mayne Street in January 1872. In this photograph the Church of England church can be seen to the right on Church Hill, and also the paling fence which enclosed the Catholic Church reserve. A clearer view of the position of the building can be seen in the panoramic photo at Home & Away - 38956. When the new Catholic Church was completed in December 1871 the old church became the Catholic School building. The man on the left is John Dillon the school teacher. -- Note supplied by Baldwin & Davis, research Gulgong (Aug 2006)
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a2822193
  Copy print available: PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
  This glass negative forms part of the Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne streets and buildings, 1871-1876
• Name
  Catholic Church
  Dillon, James
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  boys
  
• Topic
  bark roofs
  bells
  churches
  historic buildings
  
• Place
  Catholic Church (corner Medley and Bayly Streets, Gulgong, N.S.W.)
  Herbert Street (Gulgong, N.S.W.)
  Medley Street (Gulgong, N.S.W.)
  

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