ANGLICAN CHURCH, TarraWarra

The first Anglican church service in Tarrawarra was held on 16 April 1893 in a small renovated building that was placed alongside the railway station at the expense of Richard Woolcott (1836-1904). The first baptism was that of Ellen Margaret Hanley on 4 June 1893. In 1901 a building which had been used as a school at the corner of Old Healesville and Long Gully Roads was moved up the hill to the corner of the current School Lane and served for many years as church and school. A teacher at the school in 1923 wrote that this building ' ... is primarily a church and is leased to the Education Department for school purposes'. The Church closed in 1920 and the building was eventually moved in 1930 to St Johns Anglican Church in Healesville to become the church hall. 


 Source: YG&DHS Newsletter no.24, July 2007