The Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Berrima will be open to the public on Australia Day 2025.
Visitors will be able to enter and see the Church between 10am and 2pm on the day.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church at Argyle Street, Berrima, Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Edmund Blacket and built from 1849. The property is owned by the Anglican Church Property Trust. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Berrima had been established 18 years before it had a church in which its residents could worship. A subscription list for erection of a church was opened in May 1841, but it was another four years before the people of Berrima were ready to consult architect Edmund Blacket about the design of Holy Trinity Church
The church is one of the first designed by Blacket in the simple Victorian Gothic Revival style. His design was modelled on the 15th-century church of St Peter in Biddestone, Wiltshire. A plan of St Peter’s appears in Augustus Pugin‘s “Examples of Gothic Architecture”, 1840. Holy Trinity is considerably larger than St Peter’s, and Blacket modified the design and added numerous details such as the Perpendicular Gothic elements in the chancel arch, the east and west windows and the open timber hammer beam roof. Stained glass windows are a feature, most over 100 years old. The two on the right-hand side of the entry door are believed to be over 200 years old. Set on a hilltop among pines, Holy Trinity is one of Berrima’s landmarks
