 On 13 August 1856, James Atkinson, senior, builder of Windsor advertised for "three or four good Quarrymen and three or four good Masons, to perform the work of a Church".Reverend Frederic Barker, Bishop of Sydney, laid the foundation stone of the new church on 17 December 1856.After architect Edmund T. Blacket approved the work completed up to 27 April 1857 by J Atkinson amounting in value to A£648, the bulk of funds voted by parliament were transferred to the church.