History of St Marks Anglican Templestowe
- 1848 Bishop Perry arrives in Melbourne. Rev. Francis Hales and others visit the Templestowe area
- 1854 Church of England granted a two acre site opposite, what is now, the Services Memorial Park on the corner of High St. and Foote St. A school building erected on the site and church services conducted
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| Templestowe Memorial Park - GoogleMaps 2017 |
- 1871 The school building formally licensed as a place of worship
- 1900 New site purchased on corner of Glendale Avenue and Foote Street. A new wooden church built and opened on November 8
Church of England Anglican Church - Glendale Ave & Foote St, Templestowe 1975
Probably originally located at 28 Glendale Ave. Ben Frawley Facebook Photo by Garth Kendall.
- 1903 First mention of “Christ Church” in vestry minutes, Administration by Holy Trinity Doncaster for next sixty four years
Christ Church Templestowe S. S. Picnic Sandringham 20-1-1910 (St Marks History)
- 1959 Land at High Street sold to assist financing of new hall.
- 1960 Hall built next to the church
- 1963 Appointment to Christ Church of a curate, Peter Corney
- 1967 Templestowe declared a separate parochial district. The Investiture of the first priest, Rev. Ed Richardson. Curate, Geoff Cheong, assisted for a time
Christ Church Templestowe Doncaster East Yarra News. S.N.A.B. AUDITED CIRCULATION 26,545. A Leader Associated Newspapers’ Publication 489-2222 70th year at Christ Church. The 9.30 a.m. Service at Christ Church, Templestowe, on the second Sunday of November will long be remembered. It was the 70th anniversary of the opening service in Templestowe's second Anglican Church building. At 3 p.m. on November 8. 1900, a Thursday, Bishop F. F. Goe, the then Lord Bishop of Melbourne, came to the new “church on the hili" and preached at the service. Present in the anniversary congregation at morning prayer were not only members of some of the early pioneering families, but also Miss Ethel Aumann, who in 1900 as an infant was the first person baptised in the new Christ Church. Mr R. W. Mundy and Mr A. W. Mai read the Lessons. Mr Mai, as a lay reader, has been taking services at Christ Church for 36 years. He said that Mrs B. Uebergang, who was at the anniversary service, was probably In the first congregation that he led in worship. The vicar, the Rev. Edwin Richardson, gave some interesting and even amusing sidelights on the history, referring to the vestry minutes, which were on display, dating from 1877. He made a special point of thanking the large group of choristers from the Bulleen Presbyterian-Methodist Church, who assisted in singing the magnificent, musical settings for parts of morning prayer. https://stm.org.au/wp-content/uploads/StMarks1970.jpg
- 1972 The Investiture of Rev. Doug Dickinson
- 1973 Decision to sell the Foote St. site to City of Doncaster and Templestowe. Plans made to build new church and vicarage on land provided by the Diocese on the corner of High St and Dellfield Drive
- 1975 Last service at Christ Church on Good Friday. First services at new church of St Mark over Easter
- 1976 The Investiture of Rev. Philip Newman - Various curates assisted over the years including Peter Lawry, Richard Temby, Heather Martin, Derek Snibson, Stuart Gardiner
- 1985 The Investiture of Rev. Ken Ansell
- 1996 The Investiture of Rev. Maureen Beattie
- 2003 The Investiture of Rev. Rob Castelow
- 2011 Plans drawn up for three stage modernisation of the church building
- 2012 The investiture of Rev. Michael Goodluck.
- 2012 Opening of Stage 1 of building modernisation – narthex, kitchen and offices (16 December)
- 2014 The original Christ Church building, relocated to the Vine and Branches Personal Growth Centre in Lower Plenty, is opened on February 9.
St Marks Templestowe, 2 Dellfield Dr. Templestowe Lower Google Maps Sep2016
Christ Church Templestowe Building, relocated as Vine & Branches Personal Growth Centre Inc. 27 Bonds Rd, Lower Plenty 3093 Google Maps Feb 2014
Christ Church Templestowe Building Glendale Ave & Foote St, Templestowe and later relocated as Vine and Branch Centre, 27 Bonds Rd, Lower Plenty 3093 Internal
- 2015 Completion of Stage 2 of building modernisation – hall carpeted, painted and store rooms added – coinciding with the 40th anniversary of St.Mark’s (25th April)
- 2016 Church re-carpeted with carpet tiles to match the narthex and hall (November)
History of St Mark's Anglican Church Templestowe
Misc Recollections re. building on Glendale Ave & Foote St from Facebook
- dance there on a Saturday night in the mid sixties.
- dance lessons in it in early 80ss
- Xmas nativity around 1960 in this church
- Mr Griffith's class in Grade 5 was held in the back hall
- brownies and girl Guides there also calisthenics back in the 60's
- And calisthenics!
- June Clay & Brenda Clay were married there in the ‘60’s
- 2 Sims children were baptised there
- Gwen Lomas, was a member of the church choir and staged the annual nativity play. She also choreographed and directed, along with Val Bolton, Val Venn, Eric Ubergang (pianist), Doug Bolton, Ken McGay? many of the Musicals .. South Pacific, Oklahoma, West Side Story. The church community was the hub of Templestowe in the 50s
- married there in 1973 then went there for yoga classes about 40 years later
- art and craft classes there over 40 years ago! We made those groovy 70's candles where you tied the wick to a stick before lowering it into different buckets of melted colored wax. The candle got thicker and thicker and when it cooled, we sliced the sides with a hot knife to reveal all the coloured layers of wax underneath
- filled with produce for the local Harvest Festival - around 1960. Nell Charlwood and her friend Mary Barson ran dances for the local teenagers in the hall behind the church in the early 60s
- Sunday school. we played on the piano. In later years when it became an Art studio my Mum ran the creche in the old church.
- church and Sunday school there also I was Christened and made my first Holy Communion
- wanted to get married there (approx mid 1970's) and the minister told me they wouldn't marry couples there any so I got married in the church in Doncaster
- Janice Unsworth taught Templestowe Calisthenic Club in their halls for years.
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