Old and Historic Church Mugloa

The church site was originally granted to the Anglican Church in 1831 by William Cox to be used as a church and school. St Thomas' Church was built by James Atkinson and William Chisholm in 1836-1838 and designed by the Revd Thomas Makinson, the first incumbent. It is the only remaining example of a Gothic church in New South Wales built in the 1830s. It is sited on a hillside, north of the Mulgoa township, and is surrounded by a picturesque graveyard with clustered headstones and notable classical sandstone monuments, predominantly of the pastoralist Cox family which had homesteads in the area. The church is built in sandstone with a small tower at the west end capped by pinnacles and an open stone porch to the north. The five-bay interior has a hammer beam roof and includes furnishings of cedar (Toona Australis). The east window, filled with stained glass, has very simplified stone tracery in Perpendicular Gothic style. A rear gallery once housed the organ which was originally built there in 1868.