Located just off Dean Street in the heart of Albury, St Matthew’s Anglican Church is open to the public once more. Very picturesque inside and a peaceful place for a period of reflection.

Born in Palestine sometime in the 1st century, Saint Matthew was one of Jesus's 12 apostles and also one of the four Evangelists, according to the Bible. Matthew authored the first Gospel of the Bible's New Testament. This church is named in his memory. The Albury Anglican Parish was established in February 1850 and by 1851 the first rector Henry Elliott had arrived. In 1856 a plan by Sydney architect Edmund Blacket was accepted and work began in 1857. The first portion was opened on March 13 1859. The building combines Edmund Blacket's original west wall and tower base of 1857 - 59, William Boles chanel completed in 1876 and the rebuilt church designed by Ian O'Connor after the church was gutted by fire is September 1991. The outer walls of the new church were built of granite. All windows, porch and door arches were built of cut stone. The stone for the tracery of the magnificent east window came from the quarries at Table Top, and the granite from Black Range. The white freestone in the transept windows came from Omaru, New Zealand. I was heading out to dinner when I walked past this church... it's very stately behind the walls... and it captures your interest. Against the night sky it's imposing and eye-catching.