We acknowledge the First Nations’ owners of the Irwin districts, the Wattandee People on Wattandee Wanda, and their continuing connection to land, sea and community, and pay our respects to Wattandee ancestors, elders, people and country.

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Dongarra Wesleyan Church

Corner of Waldeck Street and Moreton Terrace
Not open to the public.

Early church services were held in the original schoolhouse (the site now occupied by the police station) but in the early 1880s the congregation decided to build their own church. Local builder WH Linthorne donated the block of land and won the contract to build the church, which was designed by Isaac Walker. The church was opened on Sunday 14 December 1884, with more than 200 people attending the morning and evening services. The church bell was originally the convict bell from Northampton. The Church Hall was constructed in 1988 adjacent to the church. It is a well composed church in the rural Victorian Rustic Gothic Style, and illustrates the rise and strong influence of Methodism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly in the Victoria District.

Dongara Wesleyan Methodist Church and parson, 1912 I IRME0422

5 Waldeck St
Dongara WA 6525
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