St Lawrence Parish is one of the 57

parishes A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

Cumberland County, New South Wales Cumberland County is a county in the State of New South Wales, Australia. Most of the Sydney metropolitan area is located within the County of Cumberland. The County of Cumberland stretches from Broken Bay to the north, the Hawkesbury River ...

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, a cadastral unit for use on

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. It is one of the four small parishes in the

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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 Christ Church St Laurence is an Anglican church located at 814 George Street, near Central railway station and Haymarket, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the principal centre of Anglo-Catholic worship in the city and Diocese of S ...

. This had been controversial in the 19th century, as it was mistakenly thought that the Anglican church had been given a Catholic saint's name. The area of the parish includes

Central station Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

, Museum station, the southern part of

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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. It includes the

ANZAC War Memorial The Anzac Memorial is a heritage-listed war memorial, museum and monument located in Hyde Park South near Liverpool Street in the CBD of Sydney, Australia. The Art Deco monument was designed by C. Bruce Dellit, with the exterior adorned wit ...

.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

Images of locations in the Parish of St Lawrence: Image:SydneyMuseumStation1 gobeirne.jpg, Museum station Image:ANZACWarMemorial1 gobeirne.jpg,

, and the surrounding southern part of

Image:Central Station Railway Square.JPG, Central railway station Image:AustralianMuseum.jpg, The

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is at the north-eastern tip of the parish

References

* Parishes of Cumberland County {{Sydney-geo-stub