St David's Anglican Church, Mossman, Anglican church in Mossman, Australia.
St David's Anglican Church is a small stone and masonry building at 3 Foxton Avenue, Mossman, built in three stages between 1912 and 1952: a porch, nave and apsidal sanctuary, with a vestry and chapel added around 1982. Its design, influenced by Byzantine architectural traditions, was completed by rector Reverend Edward Taffs, with Edwin Roy Orchard also credited as designer. It stands behind an avenue of mature, fern-clad raintrees north of the town centre, on the road to Daintree.
The church was built between 1912 and 1952 after a wooden predecessor was destroyed by a cyclone in 1911. This reconstruction reflects how the community recovered and rebuilt their place of worship following the natural disaster.
The name honours the Welsh patron saint, St David, reportedly chosen because parish secretary R. D. Rex had been christened in Hobart's St David's Cathedral in 1874. In 1955 a fragment of the stone cross from that Tasmanian cathedral was set in cement at the entry. The church replaced an earlier timber building dedicated on Trinity Sunday, 29 May 1899.
St David's Anglican Church stands at 3 Foxton Avenue, north of the Mossman town centre on the road to Daintree, behind an avenue of mature raintrees. Visitors approach from that road; the entry holds a fragment of the stone cross from St David's Cathedral in Hobart, set in cement in 1955.
The church stands behind an avenue of mature, fern-clad raintrees (Samanea saman) north of Mossman's town centre, on the road to Daintree. A fragment of the stone cross from St David's Cathedral in Hobart was set in cement at the entry in 1955, recalling the Tasmanian cathedral that gave the parish its name.
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