Gunning Uniting Church today, Warrataw Street, Gunning. Photo by Mattinbgn / CC BY 3.0 Guest article by Garry Norman Smith At three o’clock on Wednesday 16 January 1849, Dr Benjamin Clayton JP laid the foundation stone for the “New Wesleyan Chapel” in Gunning. A sermon was preached on the occasion by the Reverend W.B. Boyce, General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions in Australia and Van Diemen’s Land. From the Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser , 13 January 1849, via Trove. Gunning Uniting Church, Built by Coates & Sons , Parramatta. Photo by Garry Smith. Despite the official opening of the chapel taking place in July 1849, the gazetting of the land grant to the church did not appear until December 1849; the bureaucracy lagged well behind. The Colonial Secretary’s Office in Sydney announced that land had been granted at the intersection of Warrataw and Cullavin Streets, Gunning for a Wesleyan Chapel, a Wesleyan School a...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales