 There was an early reference to churches in 1844 when the Examiner noted that Bishop Nixon " laid the foundation stone of a new church at Hadspen , Reibey 's ford " though it is not stated which church . This church is likely to have been a small wooden one that was the first used by the Church of England . The then Reverend Thomas Reibey had a small stone chapel built at Entally in 1850 . Though it was intended for the employees of the estate it was used by some in the town . From the 1870s Reibey himself conducted some of the services in this Chapel . The Uniting Church building in Hadspen 's main street is a small , weatherboard colonial church . There was a Wesleyan chapel in the town by at least 1852 as well as another small church . In July 1874 the current Uniting church building was completed as a Wesleyan Chapel , that by 1924 was part of the Methodist church . The grounds the church is on were owned by the Wesleyans as early as 1865 . 
