Scots Church, Sydney

Scots Church
Scots Church Sydney
The current Scots Church in 1931
33°51′53″S 151°12′21″E / 33.8648°S 151.2058°E / -33.8648; 151.2058
Location	42-44 Margaret Street, Sydney central business district, New South Wales
Country	Australia
Denomination	Presbyterian
Tradition	Trinitarian, Bible-based
Website	scotschurchsydney.org
History
Status	Church
Founded	1824 (1824) (first church) 30 November 1929 (1929-11-30) (second church)
Founder(s)	Thomas Brisbane (1824) Lord Stonehaven (1929)
Associated people	John Dunmore Lang (Founding Pastor, served for 55 years)
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Rosenthal, Rutledge & Beattie (1929 church) Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (2005 apartments)
Architectural type	Church
Style	Inter-War Gothic Revival
Administration
Division	New South Wales
Presbytery	Sydney
Parish	Scots Church Sydney
New South Wales Heritage Database (Local Government Register)
Official name	Scots Church including interior
Type	Local heritage (built)
Designated	14 December 2012
Reference no.	2423854
Builders	Beat Bros.

The Scots Church Sydney is an active congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Australia. The historic Presbyterian church located at 42–44 Margaret Street on the corner of York Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Rosenthal, Rutledge & Beattie and built by Beat Bros in 1929. Since 2005, the 1929 building has supported a high rise apartment building on top of it, designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer.

The 1929 building replaced an earlier 1824 church on an adjacent site - the first Presbyterian church in Sydney, founded by John Dunmore Lang - which was resumed and demolished for construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Wynyard railway station.^[1]