"The Rev. Cooper who has charge of this district jointly with Jerry's Plains
where he resides preaches in the school house, which stands across the brook.
The school is well attended and conducted as I found on examining the
children".

The Bishop again visited the church in 1847 and expressed satisfaction at
the progress being made.

Shortly after the appointment of Bishop Tyrrell as first colonial Bishop of
Newcastle on the 31st January, 1848, and the formation (If the Diocese of
Newcastle, Bishop Tyrrell travelled to' the northern settlements. He visited
the church and found the work had again stopped for want of funds.

The Bishop allotted £50.00 from The Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel Fund and the work was again resumed. Money was also collected from
the settlers but as a trustee of the church remarked, "We are collecting shillings
from the settlers where we should be getting guineas due to bad seasons".

In 1851 the Church of St. Clement was dedicated and opened for service
but it was not consecrated until March 1855. Marriages however had been
celebrated in the church from the mid 1840's when the walls were only 3
parts built, and the church roofless.

Mr. Bowman who had given the land and a sum of money towards the building
of the church died in 1846 and never saw the church completed. Bishop
Broughton also passed away in 1853, before the church was consecrated.

The finished church had a substantial and imposing appearance. It was 50 feet
by 25 feet in length, cavity walls 20 feet high, eleven sets of iron framed
windows containing over 600 panes of glass and a vestry 10 feet by 8 feet.
The fittings of the church were hand made in cedar, the ceiling beams of iron
bark, hand hewn and carved by expert axemen from local timber and the
roof made of 18 inches by 4 inches wood shingles. The floor was made of
sandstone blocks and inside the church there was a large christening font.

The sandstone was from a quarry nearby, across on the other side of the ford
and was carried to the site by Mr. Tullock's bullock team while the building
of the church was supervised by Mr. H. Glennie of Dulwich Homestead.

In 1865 a correspondent from the Maitland Mercury wrote that "at Camberwell
the most prominent feature of the whole township is the English Church
which appears large enough to accommodate at least twice as many people as
the entire village contains. It was erected in the early history of the colony
when there were located many government men resident there".

Until a slab church was built at Goonangoola in 1878 on ground donated by
Mr. Brooker,  Goonangoola people came down to St. Clements’s for service.
One woman walked with her children from the head of Goonangoola about
28 miles to have the children baptised in St. Clements’s Church.

In 1868 it was decided not to build the tower on the church as originally
planned. A railway line was being built between Singleton and Scone and
this by-passed the village of Falbrook. At the same time, the building of a
road bridge on the highway further downstream from the Falbrook crossing
helped to deplete the value of properties and the population of Falbrook, and
the need to further develop the church.

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