Ebenezer Chapel

Year started

1892

Style

Simple Victorian Rustic Gothic

Architects

Mr M. Hare and Mr George Spurway

About Ebenezer Chapel

The Baptists Church had been running a Sunday School in Ryde from as early as 1845. 

Their first church, known as the Strict and Particular Baptist Church at Ebenezer Ryde, was a sandstone building constructed in 1862 on land donated by Mr J. Farnell within the grounds of St Brigid's Orphanage at 512 Victoria Road, Ryde. 

The present brick Ebenezer Chapel was erected in 1892. Mr George Spurway drew the plans of the building, and Mr M. Hare was the architect for the work.

The first pastor, James Hicks, married a daughter of Henry Jupp, of a well-known 19th-century family of orchardists in Lane Cove Road. He remained the pastor until his death in 1903. The second pastor was James Spurway.

Location

22 Blaxland Road, Ryde 2112  View Map