A Stained Glass Window in St. Luke's Anglican Church - Corner of Lyons and Pelissier Streets, Yea
It is believed that funding to build the St Luke's Church in Yea all started in 1862 with a donation of 16 shillings donated by a Miss Watton. Her wish was that the funds were to be placed towards the construction of an Anglican Church in Yea. A following £20.00 was donated by a fellow congregation member, Mrs. Ker. Mrs. Ker and her sister-in-law Miss Flora de Burgh continued tirelessly to raise funds and the building of an Anglican Church, and Miss Watton’s wish was fulfilled six years later when St. Luke's Anglican Church built on the corner of Lyons and Pelissier Streets was officially opened in October 1868.
St. Luke’s Anglican Church is a classical example of a Victorian Academic Gothic church. Gothic architecture was perceived by the pious Victorians as an expression of religious, and therefore, moral values. Its revival was thus seen as virtious and equated with moral revival. For this reason an ecclesiastical character was predominant. As befits such architecture, St. Luke’s is a modest church with elegant lines. It features a steeply pitched roof of corrugated iron and plainly fashioned walls that excellent stone masonry. It features common qualities of Victorian Academic Gothic architecture including a parapeted gable, wall buttresses marking structural bays, and lancet stained glass windows with restrained tracery around them. The cost of the build was £600.00 with an additional £200.00 for essential furnishings, which included aid from the government. The furnishings were completed throughout with a very generous donation from Mrs. E. S. Purcell. These donations included: front lectern, lamps, prayer desk and carpeting. Mrs. Purcell also left £50.00 towards the building of a Parish Hall which was yet to be built.
Over the years various additions and renovations took place at St Lukes. A sanctuary and vestry were added although the date of these additions cannot be confirmed although it is known that they had been completed when the Jubilee of the Parish was celebrated in 1907.
The first recorded baptism at St Luke’s after it became an independent parish was probably the daughter of William and Elizabeth Wade; Alice Maud Wade, this Baptism took place on the 1st May 1881. The first Wedding that took place at St Luke's was probably that of Mary Ann Chaplain and Charles George Knights, on the 11th October 1881.
Yea is a small country town located 109 kilometres (68 miles) north-east of Melbourne in rural Victoria. The first settlers in the district were overlanders from New South Wales, who arrived in 1837. By 1839, settlements and farms dotted the area along the Goulburn River. The town was surveyed and laid out in 1855 and named after Colonel Lacy Walter Yea (1808 – 1855); a British Army colonel killed that year in the Crimean War. Town lots went on sale at Kilmore the following year. Settlement followed and the Post Office opened on 15 January 1858. The town site was initially known to pioneer settlers as the Muddy Creek settlement for the Yea River, called Muddy Creek until 1878. When gold was discovered in the area in 1859 a number of smaller mining settlements came into existence, including Molesworth. Yea expanded into a township under the influx of hopeful prospectors, with the addition of several housing areas, an Anglican church (erected in 1869) and a population of 250 when it formally became a shire in 1873. Yea was promoted as something of a tourist centre in the 1890s with trout being released into King Parrot Creek to attract recreational anglers. A post office was built in 1890, followed by a grandstand and a butter factory (now cheese factory) in 1891. There was a proposal in 1908 to submerge the town under the Trawool Water Scheme but it never went ahead. Today Yea is a popular stopping point for tourists on their way from Melbourne to the Victorian snow fields and Lake Eildon, and is very popular with cyclists who traverse the old railway line, which has since been converted into a cycling trail.
A Stained Glass Window in St. Luke's Anglican Church - Corner of Lyons and Pelissier Streets, Yea
It is believed that funding to build the St Luke's Church in Yea all started in 1862 with a donation of 16 shillings donated by a Miss Watton. Her wish was that the funds were to be placed towards the construction of an Anglican Church in Yea. A following £20.00 was donated by a fellow congregation member, Mrs. Ker. Mrs. Ker and her sister-in-law Miss Flora de Burgh continued tirelessly to raise funds and the building of an Anglican Church, and Miss Watton’s wish was fulfilled six years later when St. Luke's Anglican Church built on the corner of Lyons and Pelissier Streets was officially opened in October 1868.
St. Luke’s Anglican Church is a classical example of a Victorian Academic Gothic church. Gothic architecture was perceived by the pious Victorians as an expression of religious, and therefore, moral values. Its revival was thus seen as virtious and equated with moral revival. For this reason an ecclesiastical character was predominant. As befits such architecture, St. Luke’s is a modest church with elegant lines. It features a steeply pitched roof of corrugated iron and plainly fashioned walls that excellent stone masonry. It features common qualities of Victorian Academic Gothic architecture including a parapeted gable, wall buttresses marking structural bays, and lancet stained glass windows with restrained tracery around them. The cost of the build was £600.00 with an additional £200.00 for essential furnishings, which included aid from the government. The furnishings were completed throughout with a very generous donation from Mrs. E. S. Purcell. These donations included: front lectern, lamps, prayer desk and carpeting. Mrs. Purcell also left £50.00 towards the building of a Parish Hall which was yet to be built.
Over the years various additions and renovations took place at St Lukes. A sanctuary and vestry were added although the date of these additions cannot be confirmed although it is known that they had been completed when the Jubilee of the Parish was celebrated in 1907.
The first recorded baptism at St Luke’s after it became an independent parish was probably the daughter of William and Elizabeth Wade; Alice Maud Wade, this Baptism took place on the 1st May 1881. The first Wedding that took place at St Luke's was probably that of Mary Ann Chaplain and Charles George Knights, on the 11th October 1881.
Yea is a small country town located 109 kilometres (68 miles) north-east of Melbourne in rural Victoria. The first settlers in the district were overlanders from New South Wales, who arrived in 1837. By 1839, settlements and farms dotted the area along the Goulburn River. The town was surveyed and laid out in 1855 and named after Colonel Lacy Walter Yea (1808 – 1855); a British Army colonel killed that year in the Crimean War. Town lots went on sale at Kilmore the following year. Settlement followed and the Post Office opened on 15 January 1858. The town site was initially known to pioneer settlers as the Muddy Creek settlement for the Yea River, called Muddy Creek until 1878. When gold was discovered in the area in 1859 a number of smaller mining settlements came into existence, including Molesworth. Yea expanded into a township under the influx of hopeful prospectors, with the addition of several housing areas, an Anglican church (erected in 1869) and a population of 250 when it formally became a shire in 1873. Yea was promoted as something of a tourist centre in the 1890s with trout being released into King Parrot Creek to attract recreational anglers. A post office was built in 1890, followed by a grandstand and a butter factory (now cheese factory) in 1891. There was a proposal in 1908 to submerge the town under the Trawool Water Scheme but it never went ahead. Today Yea is a popular stopping point for tourists on their way from Melbourne to the Victorian snow fields and Lake Eildon, and is very popular with cyclists who traverse the old railway line, which has since been converted into a cycling trail.