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by Alex Green » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:13 pm
Ross is correct with the identifications.
St. George's at Sorell was built in 1825, on a massive scale. It was designed to hold 800 worshippers. By the 1870's, the church had fallen into disrepair, so much so that in 1874 the Bishop of Tasmania declared that "the house of God at Sorell was now in ruins". Repairing the church was considered, but given the building was much larger than the community required, it was decided to demolish the building and erect a smaller church in its place. The stone from the old church was used in building the new.
The new building was not completed until 1884.
It is, of course, the new church which features in the postcard and the examples shown by Ross. Importantly, the photographs cannot date from before 1884.