St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Wingham, Presbyterian church in Wingham, Australia.
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church is a yellow brick building on Moon Street that accommodates about 120 people in its main worship space. The interior includes an enclosed pulpit, a lectern, a Celtic cross on the back wall, a baptismal font, and a Communion Table with seating for the minister and eight elders.
The first St Andrew's was a wooden church built in 1856 in Canget Street, one block east of the Wingham Memorial Hall. The current yellow brick church on Moon Street dates from the 1970s and was partly funded by a scheme subsidising World War II memorials. The Wingham and Upper Manning Parish itself was established in 1883, divided from the Taree and Lower Manning Parish.
The Wingham and Upper Manning Parish was created in 1883 when it split from the Taree and Lower Manning Parish. Its charge once covered preaching places from Bobin and Krambach to Nowendoc and Cooplacurripa. Today St Andrew's shares its minister with St Thomas' at Krambach, and in the mid-1990s the Comboyne congregation moved to the neighbouring Wauchope parish.
The church stands at the apex of a triangular 1.2-hectare block bounded by Moon Street, Gloucester Road and Fotheringham Street, with the 1898 manse at the Fotheringham Street end. Inside, the sanctuary seats 120, with the vestry to the right and the hall to the left; the hall's public facilities sit well away from the hall itself and further still from the church.
The roll of honour in the porch records local names, and part of the construction funding came from a scheme subsidising World War II memorials. The architect also designed Presbyterian churches at Port Macquarie, Rutherford and Leura.
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