St Philip's Church, Culham Western Australia
St Philip's Church in Culham, Western Australia, is one of the state’s oldest Anglican churches and, as of 2021, the second oldest still in use. It sits in the Parish of Toodyay–Goomalling on the Bindi Bindi–Toodyay Road. The church grounds include a cemetery that still accepts burials, though there are restrictions on who can be buried there.
In 1849, Bishop Short, the first Bishop of Adelaide, visited Culham and saw the need for a church. His brother-in-law, Samuel Pole Phillips, donated 12 acres of land and started a fund to pay for construction. Building began in 1850, and the first service was held in April 1853. When the Phillips family returned to England, work stopped and the church fell into disrepair. On their return, construction resumed, and the church officially opened on 19 July 1857. Phillips died in 1901 and was buried in the cemetery.
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