St Jude's Anglican Church

Area containing historic buildings and sites associated with St Jude's Anglican Church in Randwick. 

St Jude's Church

A Victorian Gothic church built between 1861 to 1865, situated on Avoca Street, and was officially opened on the 29th of June 1865. It was built on land donated by Simeon Pearce, who sough to construct a church modelled on the St John church from Randwick, Gloucestershire, his birthplace. The first St Jude's church opened on the corner of Alison Road and Avoca Street during the 1850s, on the site of the old post office, before being moved to its current location. 

St Jude's Rectory

South of St Jude's Church is a two-storey Victorian Gothic sandstone residence built in c. 1870, with the design attributed to Edmund Blackett.

St Jude's Parish Hall

Also known as the Verger's Residence and the original Council Borough Chambers. It is a two storey symmetrical Gothic style building, built 1862 to the design of architect Thomas Rowe as Randwick's first Council Borough Chambers. Purchased by St Jude's in 1895 as the residence for the church's caretaker, it was later converted to St Jude's Parish Hall/Centre. 

A further red-brick building was added to to the north of the site during the early 20th century, on the corner of Avoca and Frances Streets, as another Hall.