[1] Seven Hills was first settled when Matthew Pearce, a free settler who arrived on board the "Surprise" in 1794, was granted 65 hectares (160 acres) in 1795.
[1] A railway link built by 1863 from Parramatta to Penrith and including Seven Hills Station, stimulated development of the area into a prosperous orcharding district, which, during the land boom of the 1880s, soon became intensive farmlets.
[5][1] The land on which the church, hall and rectory is located is closely associated with early pioneer families of the area.
[1] W. Freame, noted local historian and Lay Representative at the Anglican Synod, records "During 1863 a brick building was erected to do duty as a chapel of ease and a school, and here services were held on Sundays for many years, until 1880 when St. Andrew's Church was opened.
A typescript history of Seven Hills (North) Public School (directly adjacent to the Church's site) (copy in Blacktown Archives) mentions that services had been held in the Anglican Denominational School, corner of Abbotts' Road and Seven Hills Road, since the 1850s.
The brass book rest and vases on the communion table were in memory of the late Phillip Pearce, JP, church warden.
[1] Freame lists the leading "founding parishioners" of St. Andrew's as: "The Pearces, Howards, Briens, Meurants, Davis and Horwood".
The hall represents significant religious development in Seven Hills and the rectory is a fine late Victorian mansion which is rare within Blacktown.
William Saumarez Smith, on 13 June 1891, alongside St. Andrew's church, which by that time had been in service for a decade or more.
About 1963 the original Victorian Gothic prayer desk and gilded communion rails, pulpit, lectern and pews were removed from the church.
An almost complete set of church financial statements covering the period from 1880s-1930s is retained by the author and forms a useful reference.
The framework of the fine timber roof - an A-frame supported on semi-circular wooden arches sprung from stone corbels in the walls is important and could be considered the equal of some of the fine church roofs by Edmund Blacket & Son, or John Horbury Hunt.
[12][1] About 1963 the original Victorian Gothic Prayer Desk and gilded Communion Rails, pulpit, lectern and pews were removed.
About 1968 an amateurish effort to underpin the walls was made by volunteers (though conducted over a long period during wet weather).
[14][1] The hall represents significant religious development in Seven Hills, a small, single-storey brick building with gable-ended roof in galvanised iron and Gothic arched windows.
Problems with settlement of foundations have been reasonably successfully stabilised many years ago by iron tie-bars bolted transveresly across the building.
[13][1] The rectory behind the church is a fine late Victorian two-storied mansion with imposing double-storey verandah with iron lace balustrades and columns, which is rare within Blacktown.
[13][1] St Andrew's Anglican Church was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
[1] This Wikipedia article was originally based on St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Hall & Rectory, entry number 00057 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on {{{accessdate}}}.