Sacred architecture

The project

Artefact has specialised expertise in preserving 19th-century Sydney churches. We have extensive experience in delivering expert heritage advice, dilapidation reports, cyclical maintenance guidelines, Conservation Management Plans (CMP), and Statements of Heritage Impacts (SoHI).

We are also deeply experienced with major estate masterplans, having provided Conservation Management Plans and adaptive reuse advice for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney at St Patricks Estate in Manly, as well as heritage services for Tempe House, Wolli Creek, and St Pauls College at the University of Sydney.

Projects span from repairing the monumental stone flying buttresses of St Marys Cathedral to advising on the delicate repainting of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Waterloo.

Our extensive portfolio of sacred architecture includes ongoing work at St George Presbyterian Church on Castlereagh Street and past restorations and repairs at Paddington Uniting Church; St James Catholic Church in Glebe, and St Bede’s Pyrmont.

Projects

• St George Presbyterian Church, Castlereagh Street, Sydney – PAR pre and post construction (Jasper Swann Stonemason for St George’s Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia) (2025, on going)

• All Saints Church, Parramatta - drainage works and heritage advice, (WSP Australia) (2024)

• Paddington Uniting Church – Conservation works, stone repair documentation, alterations and additions, heritage advice, (Uniting Church Australia) (2015-2021)

• Tempe House and St Magdalene's Chapel, Wolli Creek - Conservation Works, (Discovery Point/Walker Constructions) (2005)

• St Patricks Estate, Manly, Conservation Management Plan and heritage conservation adaptive reuse advice (Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney) (1998-2000)

• St Bede’s Church, Pyrmont, - Replacement of roof after storm damage (Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney) (c2015)

• St James Catholic Church, Glebe - Replacement of slate roof (Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney) (c2015)

• Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and Primary School, Waterloo - heritage advice for stone repair and repainting (Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney) (c2015)

• St Mary’s Cathedral and Sacristy, Sydney - slate roof replacement, stone repairs to flying buttresses, access upgrades, Sacristy stonework repairs, (Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney)(2015-2022)

• St Pauls College, University of Sydney - heritage advice, new Albert Wing (1996-7)