History of the parish of glen Innes and the holy trinity Anglican church (Consecrated in 1868) EARLY HISTORY The beginning of the Parish of Glen Innes and the Holy Trinity Church of England can be linked with the early history of Australia. The Right...
Bishop Broughton appointed William Tyrrell the Bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle. He truly cared for his ‘sheep’ visiting the New England area on a number of occasions. Remembering that the roads were tracks and that the horse was the only available form...
The Parish of Glen Innes, one of the oldest in the Diocese, was set up as a centre of administration of the Church of England when Bishop Tyrrell appointed the Rev. G. C. Bode to be the first Vicar of the Parish in 1858. Rev. Bode, who formerly trained under the...
Rev. G.C Bode served the Parish until 1862, to be succeeded by the Rev. J.H. Johnson, who was Vicar for the next sixteen years. Rev. Johnson applied himself industriously to erecting a more suitable place of worship and it was during his time that the first...
On the 2nd February 1876 the Rt. Rev. Turner, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale consecrated Holy Trinity Church. He earned the title of the “Builder Bishop”. It must have been a busy time in Glen Innes with the consecration of the Church on the Feast of...
The population of Glen Innes in 1878 was 343 people. By this time it had three churches: the Church of England, Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches; together with a Public School, Court House, Post and Telegraph Office, Police Station, a branch of the Bank...
