Methodist Church, Chatswood South [microform] : notes of an address

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METHODIST CHURCH CHATSWOOD SOUTH  

Notes of an address on the History of the Church given  

by W. Cresswell O’Reilly, B.A. at the 70th Aniversary Meeting, held  

on 24th September, 1941.  

An extract from the leading article of Sydney newspaper  

reads—" Lane Cove has long been noted as the resort of disreputable  

people, and we do not hesitate to say that there should be military  

post established there to prevent smuggling and sly grog selling.  

If an active Police magistrate were to visit this infamous district  

frequently, we make no doubt that much would be done towards clean-  

sing it of as great set of ruffians as the colony holds."  

But that wasjiore than hundred years ego, as it appeared  

in the Sydney Gazette of 25th January, 1841. In those days ’Lane  

Cove’ the name applied to the district extending from about  

to Wahroonga. It did not ’enjoy* that unsavoury  

reputation for long, for in 1845, Wesleyan Methodists assembled in  

Sydney learnt that ’very gracious work* had begun, local preachers  

had visited Lane Cove and formed class of twelve people.  

Two years later still, in 1845, there happened an event  

which was of the utmosyimportance to Methodism in the old Lane Cove  

area and the present North Shore Line, and was the beginning of  

close link between this Church (formerl/y Willoughby, then Chatswood  

and now Chatswood South) and the mother church at Lane Cove (cnee  

situated in the present suburb of Gordon), and the present Pymble  

Church (formerljy called Lane Cove and later Gordon). That event  

was the coming to the district of William Henry McKeown, the Grand  

Old Man of Methodism on the North Shore. In the following year,  

May 1846, he occupied the home he had built on the Pittwater Road  

(then Stoney Creek Road), quarter of mile north of the Pymble  

Church, which was only demolished in 1939, having been continuously  

occupied for more than 93 years. For 60 years McKeown was the  

leading figure in all church enterprizes in the district.  

In 1855 the was opened, the site is on the  

Pacific Highway (then Lane Cove Road), surrounded by the Ravenswood  

College grounds. Some of the stones can be seen from the pathway  

overgrown by bushes, (see note bel.w). This 1855 church, demol-  

ished in 1925, was succeeded by the present Pymble Church in 1879,  

and is one of the most charming sanctuaries in the Metropolitan  

District with its beautiful brown stone walls, within ano without,  

and its tasteful/ appointmaits.  

NOTE "The site is now part of the Ravenswood College Grounds,  

and pillar, unveiled on 10th December, 1949, built of  

stone from the foundatl ons of the 1855 church, marks the  

spot."  

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