All Saints Anglican Church, Belgravia Street, Cloverdale, Western Australia, Australia

Notes:
The earliest Anglican services in the Belmont area are said to have been held in the open under a large tree, but little is known of these.
The area around the junction of Moreing Street and Great Eastern Highway was mainly bush when the foundation stone of the little Mission Church of All Saints was laid by Bishop Charles Riley on 8 September 1906. There was not even a footpath along the main road at the time. After the ceremony the Bishop presented prizes to the Sunday school children.
A brick church was erected by a local builder, William Blacklock, with a matchwood ceiling from which four large kerosene lamps were suspended. There were wooden swing-doors between the porch and the church, and the back wall was weatherboard to allow for later extensions.
The modest altar was a packing case brought out by the Fisher family from England. This was mounted on a platform and surrounded by a
wooden rail. Eventually most of this woodwork was eaten by termites. The seating was wooden chairs with cane seats and the baptismal font was a large clam shell from the North West, mounted on a wooden stand.
During renovations around 1920, electric lights were installed, and pews replaced the old chairs. By 1921, the wooden ceiling was so badly damaged by white ants it was removed. It was not until the mid-1940s, that a new wooden altar replaced the original packing case.
Although All Saints, Moreing Street, was demolished in 1977, some of the bricks from the original All Saints were used to build a seat in the garden of the new All Saints in Belgravia Street, Cloverdale. The old foundation stone was set in the wall of the new building and a memorial stone placed in the garden. The old church bell was given to St. Bartholomew’s, East Perth.

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