St.Peter's is a family friendly church located in the sea-side village of Shoalhaven Heads. We are part of the parish of Gerringong.
We are committed to presenting Jesus Christ to our community in the Heads and beyond.
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| 40 Years of St. Peter's |
| A Church Building |
| A Church Building continued |
| A Sunday School Building |
| Changing Links |
| A Church on the Move |
| The Fire |
| The Present |
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Like Shoalhaven Heads itself, St. Peter's Anglican Church is inextricably linked with the first European settlement in the Shoalhaven.
Streets and place names in Shoalhaven Heads preserve the names of many of those associated with the settlement of Coolangatta which began in the 1820’s. And, the core building of St. Peter’s Anglican Church was first built as a library on the Coolangatta Estate.
In 1946, the Coolangatta Homestead, commenced by Alexander Berry in 1823, was destroyed by fire. The billiard room and library were separate buildings, were saved and the library was moved from its original site to become a hay shed before being ultimately being transported into Shoalhaven Heads to become St. Peter’s Church of England. The term ‘Church of England’ was dropped in the 1970s and was replaced by the word ‘Anglican’.
Regular Church of England Services began in Shoalhaven Heads in 1955, the meeting being held in the Community Hall in Celia Place. That Hall became a Pre-School following the building of the Community Centre in Shoalhaven Heads Road in the mid-1990s.