Here you can read about the timeline of events for the Yass Valley Anglican Churches.
1838 Rev R Cartwright – Licenced on 31 March 1838 to minister to the county of Murray and part of King county
1838-59 Rev C Brigstocke – First priest licenced to Yass as a defined parish
1840 First temporary church in Yass
1841-1843 Yass Rectory built
1842-1843 Rev William Lisle
1843 First burial in C of E burial ground
1847 St Clements foundation stone laid by Bishop Broughton
1850 St Clements opened for service
1851 Tumut-Wagga-Gundagai separated from parish
1852 St Clements consecrated
1856 Rev. Cartwright died
1859 St Clements tower erected
1859-1860 Rev Thomas Kemmis
1860 Rev Edward Synge
1861 St Johns, Boorowa built
1861 Young (Lambing Flat) separated from parish
1861-64 Canon Thomas Kemmis
1864-72 Ven F A C Lillingston
1865 New bell hung in St Clements spire
1866 Boorowa parish created; Christ Church, Marengo built (Boorowa parish)
1868 St Clements churchyard officially closed for burials
1869 Peal of 5 bells first rung at St Clements
1872-74 Rev Samuel S Harpur B.A.
1873 Murrumburrah parish created
1874-79 Rev William H H Yarrington
1876 Existing organ installed at St Clements
1878 St James, Bowning built
1879 St James, Bowning dedicated
1879 St Clements West wing opened
1880 6th bell added at St Clements
1880-1906 Rev Alured D Faunce (Canon)
1886 St Thomas, Binalong built
1889 All Saints, Tangmangaroo built (Boorowa parish)
1893 St Thomas, Binalong consecrated
1913 Binalong parish created
1906-07 Rev W Martin (Canon)
1906 St Saviours, Burrinjuck built (moved when dam flooded)
1907-09 Rev Henry E Lewin
1910 Rev Robert Penty
1910 Rev F Biddulph Clive
1910-1914 Rev Joseph Pike
1911 St Marys, Mundoonan built
1912 St Nicholas, Jeir built
1912 St Mary’s, Mundoonan licensed
1913 Rev Stanley West
1913 Rev A.M. Hagarty
1913 St Nicholas, Jeir consecrated
1914-1917 Rev George E Menlove
1915 Binalong Parish created
1917-1919 Rev Arthur Rix
1918-1919 All Saints, Murrumbateman built
1919 All Saints consecrated
1919-1935 Rev William M Holliday
1930 Rev John W Platt
1930-1937 Rev Arthur S Rowe
1935 Yass Rectory restored
1936-1941 Canon David Sherris
1939-1940 Rev Prosper de M Pickburn
1941-1948 Rev Douglas E K Blanche
c. 1946 St Nicholas, Jeir demolished
1948-1966 Rev Henry P Reynolds (Canon)
1952-1953 Rev Keith L McConchie
1953 Yass Rectory renovated
1957 Existing St Clements hall opened
1958 St Clements cottage opened
1959-1961 Rev George G Laws
1964-1965 Rev John E Southerden
1966-1974 Rev Ralph Clevdon Hancock (Cleve)
1966 Rev Desmond A Pritchard
c.1974 Derelict headstones removed from St Clements graveyard
1974-1979 Rev Harry Bates
1976-1977 Rev Dennis G H Johnson
1977-1984 Rev Peter H Davies
1984-1988 Rev Donald K Turnbull
1988 St Clements bells recast & rehung
1988 Rev Paul R Cook
1988-1995 Rev Norman S Kelley
1990 St James restored and rededicated
1992-1993 Rev John P B Wynburne
1992-1993 Rev Chris Elliot (Dec-Feb)
1995-2002 Rev Haydn M Swinbourn
1997 Yass Rectory restored
1999 120th anniversary of St James
2002 Rev Michael W Martin
2002-2004 Rev Robert Draffan
2002-2005 Restoration of St Clements
2004-2005 Rev John H Corson
2005 Renovations begin at All Saints
2005 Robert Draffan remembrance precinct created
2005-2011 Rev Genieve M Blackwell
2011 Zac’s place opens in old St Clements tennis clubhouse
2011 St Clements tennis courts passed to community garden group
2012 Rev Judy F Heggart
2012 → Rev Ken W Rampling