St. Lawrence Parish, Cumberland

Infobox Australian cadastral
name = St. Lawrence
state = New South Wales

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imagesize = 180px
caption = Location in Sydney city highlighted in magenta
lga = City of Sydney
county = Cumberland
former hundred = Sydney
est = 1835
near-nw = St. Philip
near-n = St. James
near-ne = St. James
near-e = Alexandria
near-se = Alexandria
near-s = Alexandria
near-sw = Alexandria
near-w = St. Andrew

St. Lawrence Parish, Cumberland is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is one of the four small parishes in the Sydney city area. Unlike the other three parishes, St. Lawrence was not named after a church, but instead due to confusion over the naming, the parish gave its name to the Christ Church St. Laurence. This had been controversial in the nineteenth century, as it meant the Anglican church was given a catholic saints name. [ [http://www.ccsl.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=179 The Naming of the Parish, Christ Church of St.Laurence] ]

The area of the parish includes Central station, Museum station, the southern part of Hyde Park below Park street, and Prince Alfred Park. The parish is bounded by George Street in the west, Park Street and a small part of William Street in the north, a line from the intersection of Yurong and William streets to the intersection of Albion and Elizabeth Street in the east, also part of Elizabeth Street forms the boundary further south, as well as Chalmers Street. Regent Street is the boundary in the south west. [Information obtained from [http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/survey_mapping/maps_and_imagery/parish_maps maps available at the NSW Dept. of Lands Parish map preservation project] ] . It includes the ANZAC War Memorial. [ [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ama1923209.txt/cgi-bin/download.cgi/download/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ama1923209.txt Anzac memorial building act 1923] , Austlii] The parish is relatively thin east-west, so that Central railway station nearly covers the entire width of the parish.

Images

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References

* [http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search/extract?id=KWcklMWAGH Geographic Names Board of New South Wales]