St. David's Uniting Church, Heritage church building in Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia.
St. David's Uniting Church is a church building located at the corner of Dalhousie Street in Haberfield, featuring mid-Victorian Gothic design with stone walls and pointed arches. The structure occupies both street frontages at this intersection and displays the architectural details typical of its era.
Construction began in 1861 on the grounds of the former Sunning Hill Farm, with the first service held on Good Friday in 1869. The building came into being as the area was developing into a residential neighborhood.
The site takes its name from St David, patron saint of Wales, and the Ramsay family vault and cemetery remain within the grounds. The complex also includes the St David's Sunday School, known as Yasmar School, and the property is owned by the Uniting Church in Australia.
The church stands at 51-53 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield, in Sydney's Inner West, on land that was part of the 1803 Sunning Hill Farm grant. The complex also takes in the former St David's Sunday School, the Ramsay vault and the Ramsay cemetery, so allow time to walk the whole grounds rather than only the church interior.
The church stands on part of Sunning Hill Farm, 190 hectares granted to Nicholas Bayly in August 1803. Bayly, an officer of the New South Wales Corps, sold the estate nineteen months later, in March 1805, to the emancipist Simeon Lord, whose name appears among the architects credited with the church complex.
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