Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Berrima, Anglican church in Berrima, Australia
Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a sandstone church on a hilltop among pines in Berrima, built of local stone. Edmund Blacket modelled it on St Peter's in Biddestone, Wiltshire, enlarging the design and adding Perpendicular Gothic elements in the chancel arch and east and west windows, plus an open timber hammer beam roof. A timber weatherboard hall stands to its north.
Edmund Blacket designed the building, which Bishop William Broughton consecrated in 1849 as part of the expanding religious establishments in New South Wales. The consecration marked a turning point in the region's religious development.
The name Berrima comes from the local Aboriginal word for the area, chosen when Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell laid out the town in 1830. The church's stained glass includes two windows to the right of the entry door believed to be over 200 years old, older than the building itself. The church was rededicated in 1957 by Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher.
The church stands on a hilltop above Argyle Street, with a timber weatherboard hall to its north nearer the road. More than half the site is scrub and maritime pine forest, sloping steeply east and south toward the Wingecarribee River. Inside the fence, the southern section is a level cleared area with sandstone outcrops at the surface, while the northern part rises over a large sandstone outcrop.
The church stands on a hilltop among pines, and its design was modelled on the 15th-century church of St Peter in Biddestone, Wiltshire, from a plan in Augustus Pugin's "Examples of Gothic Architecture" (1840). Blacket enlarged it and added Perpendicular Gothic details, including the open timber hammer beam roof.
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