St. Paul's Anglican Church - Arthur River, Western Australia, Australia
S 33° 19.931 E 117° 01.909
50H E 502961 N 6311886
St. Paul's Anglican Church was built by F E Smith and A G Horley between 1882 and 1885 using local stone with wooden floorboards and a shingle roof. The church is located 200 kilometres South of Perth and 1 kilometre north of Arthur River.
Waymark Code: WME0NM
Location: Western Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 03/18/2012
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So far from the city, the delivery of pastoral care was patchy at best. Although the town of Arthur River was established in the 1850s it did not have a church until the 1880s and even then had to share a minister with the surrounding communities. Even in the present time the church shares a minister with some forty communities in an area of about 3,000 square kilometres, with five active churches served from the Diocesan centre of Williams.
The local Taylor family donated the land and Fifty Pounds ($100) towards the construction of the church. Work commenced in 1882 and was finished just before Christmas in 1884.
Services are held three times each Sunday on a rotational basis between the churches at Arthur River, Darkan 30 Km West, Williams 40 Km North (centre of the Diocese), Quindanning 60 Km NorthWest, and Marradong 90 Km NorthWest.
St. Paul's Arthur River Holy Communion services are held on the first Sunday of each month at 4:30 PM from September to May, and 3:30 PM from June to August, and on the third Sunday of each month at 8:30 AM.
The following population figures are taken from the Australian Bureau of Statistics '2006 Census Data by Location':
In the 2006 Census (held on 8th August 2006), there were 333 persons usually resident in Arthur River.
There is a cemetery within the church grounds with about sixty graves dating back to the 1880s. The graves are spread through an area of about 5,000 square metres.
I first visited this church and the cemetery on March 8th 2011, and placed a cache, GC2Q58C WanAus 193 - LKA Arthur River, which I described as:
Last Known Address Arthur River
Should be an easy find in the Dead Centre of Arthur River. I've returned several times since then to carry out maintenance and update coordinates, and in the interim had re-discovered Waymarking, so I took the necessary photos on my last visit.