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All Saints Anglican Church

Ainslie, Australia

This church's unusual design comes from its previous life as a mortuary station.  

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Even the church's bell came from the first locomotive owned by the Commonwealth Oil Corporation. moonspenders (Atlas Obscura User)
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Cemetery Station No. 1 at Rookwood Necropolis in 1868. NSW State Archives (Public Domain)
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Rookwood Necropolis remains the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere and the largest still operating Victorian Era cemetery. When it opened in 1867, it was very much a “city of the dead,” complete with its own railway line. The All Saints Anglican Church was first built as a railway station for Rookwood. It was originally known as Cemetery Station No. 1. 

After a fire destroyed the roof of the station, Reverend E. G. Buckle purchased the ruins around 1951 for £100. He then had it carefully dismantled stone by stone and shipped to Ainslie. It was rebuilt there in 1957, with a few alterations, such as the bell tower being switched to the opposite side of the structure. A locomotive bell from the Wolgan Valley Railway was donated by the Australian Railway Historical Society in 1958 to act as the church’s bell.

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