So this week it is St Matthew's Anglican Church, Windsor.
The 1840 Johnson & Kimloch organ which now stands in its original gallery position has the distinction of being the first "finger" organ built in Australia. It cost £320 to build, and was the first to be built in the colony.
The apse is also stunningly beautiful and full of history. Within the domed apse are five arches, which are painted with beautifully ornate scrolls. On these scrolls are the text of the Lord’s Prayer, Exodus XX, the Ten Commandments and the Apostles Creed. Arching overhead, painted on the beautiful dome of the apse is a night sky depicted in graduating shares of blue and resplendent with golden stars. John Tebbut, who was a local astronomer in Windsor, and an important figure in Australian history in his own right, lay on the floor and marked out the stars as they appeared on that particular night. Since then, the stars we see in the sky have moved a few degrees, but the ceiling of the apse continues to depict that moment when the famous astronomer captured the night sky.
