The two churches that border Newcastle’s Civic Park are both radically different but designed by the same architect only 6 months apart. The architect Fredrick Menkens was a brawler, drinker and gambler who overflowed with ideas. Over 100 building in the Hunter region came from the mind of this fascinating renegade. Menkens came from Oldenburg in Germany, to Newcastle in Australia, so he literally came from 'Old Castle' to Newcastle.