It was designed by Thomas Rowe and possibly a Mr Morrow also and built by Bryson, Leet, Johnson & Montgomery.

Upon his death the land passed to his son, David Scott Mitchell, a medical doctor.

In 1871, zero point eight one hectares (two acres) of this land was then purchased from David Mitchell by the trustees of the Wesleyan church, William Henry McKeown and others.

[1] Methodist services in the Artarmon area were originally conducted in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bryson, who lived opposite the present site of the church, at the corner of the Pacific Highway and Mowbray Road.

In 1843, Wesleyan Methodist local preachers visited Lane Cove (then all North Shore) and formed a class of 12 people.

Stone was cut and carted to the site and timbers were hauled from the upper North Shore.

The church was designed in Gothic Revival style, as was usually the case with ecclesiastical buildings of that period.

[3] The Christian Advocate of 1 August 1871 noted that:[1] "The church when finished will be a very neat and substantial structure.

"Another ceremony was held on 7 October 1883 when the transept and porch were added which meant that the space had more than doubled to a cruciform plan.

On 4 July 1971 Sir Roden Cutler, Governor of NSW and his wife unveiled a plaque here on the Centenary celebrations of Chatswood South Uniting Church.

The cemetery was owned and maintained by the parish from its consecration in 1871 until it was handed over to Lane Cove Council in the early 1980s.

The story behind this tree is that in 1878 a young man by the name of Hugh Bryson was riding to Willoughby to visit his fiancée.

The 0.8-hectare (2.0-acre) site slopes down gently from east to west and contains a scattering of large turpentine trees, possibly remnant specimens.

A small sandstone church in simple Victorian Gothic style occupies the north-east corner of the site.

[1] A well kept garden surrounds the buildings, with mature trees including eucalypts, privet (Ligustrum sp.

), sweet pittosporum (P.undulatum), jacaranda (J.mimosaefolia), turpentines (Syncarpia glomulifera), funeral cypress (Cupressus funebris), four large camphor laurels (Cinnamomum camphora) (three east of church, one west of fellowship centre), and in the east facing the Pacific Highway are two Norfolk Island pines (Araucaria excelsa) and a Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis).

Four brush box trees (Lophostemon confertus) line the northern side of Mowbray Road.

and the church walls are covered with dwarf creeping fig (Ficus pumila var.

[1] Gothic style sandstone church with tiled roof, built in the eighteen seventies.