Daryl found the church to be a refuge and wrote in his book The Leafy Tree, that he would take the vestry key and read in the pulpit, which he found to be so comfortable that he spent many an hour and once wagged it for almost the whole of December. Each Sunday the children were reputedly herded into the church by their mother, and Norman, bored by the sermons, drew caricatures in his hymn book. Lisnacrieve was on the corner of Victoria and Cambridge streets, next door to the new Gothic-style Methodist church. When this home was no-longer large enough to accommodate a growing family a new home was built. In 1864, Dr Robert Lindsay started his medical practice in Creswick and when he married Jane Williams in 1869 moved their home to the corner of Raglan and Cambridge Street. From its earliest days, the Reverend Thomas Williams, grandfather of the Lindsay children, was a preacher at the church. The first service was conducted by Reverend D.J. …” In January 1861, when the official population of Creswick was almost 5000, the foundation stone was laid and Easter 1861, the new brick church erected in Victoria Street was opened to the congregation. In 1859, the Creswick Advertiser reported that although the Wesleyan Methodists had the largest place of worship in the township, the congregation was pushing out the walls of the church, so it had been decided to build “an edifice worthy of this important district. Opened in 1854, the original Wesleyan Methodist Church was a structure of canvas and slab built by Cornish miners at Red Streak.
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