Historic Berrima

We drove to Canberra, and stopped for lunch at Berrima, just off the highway south of Sydney. It was cold (10 degrees C) and raining. Berrima, founded in the 1830s, is an attractive small town with many well-preserved historic buildings. We'd planned to wander around the town, but the weather put a dampener on that. 
                                                  
We did stop to look at Holy Trinity Church, designed by Colonial Architect Edmund Blackett. It was built in the late 1840s and consecrated in 1849. Over his career Blackett designed, it is said, around 100 churches. This was one of the first.

When I first posted this image to Blipfoto I got sadly confused in my research and provided details of the neighbouring St Francis Xavier Church. It was designed by the great English architect Augustus Pugin. He did not visit Australia, but had earlier been commissioned to produce a range of designs that the Catholic Diocese of Sydney could use for future projects. Both it and Holy Trinity are built of local honey-coloured sandstone, and are both in the Gothic Revival style.

I'd like to go back to Berrima and look at both churches in more detail. But not on a cold wet day in late autumn.