From the wooded hills of the southern Mount Lofty ranges the terrain sweeps down through farmland and forest to the still largely unspoiled beaches of the southern coast and the Southern Ocean. It is an area of great beauty in which our church has a fitting role to play in ministering to the spiritual and sometimes physical needs of the scattered Anglican community.

The Victor Harbor district was initially part of the nearby parish of St. Jude's Port Elliot and it was not until 1870 that the original St. Augustine's church was built, largely through the efforts of parishioners resident in the area. The first church, which was dedicated to St. Augustine of Hippo, was indeed small, it measured some 30 feet by 20 feet and only had room for four pews on each side of the aisle. The door was at the western end of the church.

The building was constructed of shell grit limestone quarried locally and the roof and floors were of slate. Though its location was then in the scrub on the edge of the small township, time and growth have meant that St. Augustine's now lies close to the centre of a thriving community that is much larger.**

During more than a hundred years, the small church that was built in 1870, has seen many changes and additions, yet it remains the nucleus of the present day church and is both an enduring legacy and a tribute, to the faith, hard work and determination of its original builders. When the, then new, church tower and nave were added in 1922, the church assumed the fundamental shape and dimensions that it has today.