WEEKEND fundraising efforts to build a new floor for the Monaro's second oldest church - St Mary's Gegedzerick - which stands on the grounds of the region's oldest cemetery have resulted in deposits of more than half the $18,000 needed for the job.

Organiser, chaplain Graham Morrison, from the Berridale and Snowy Mountains Anglican Parish, said he had been delighted and humbled at the outpouring of support for the fundraiser, which he hoped would ultimately mean the resurrection of regular services at the heritage church just outside of Berridale.

"We are sitting at just over $8000 with people not only coming along to the concert we held at the Coolamatong Golf Club on Saturday, but also making online and in person donations throughout the weekend and during the outdoor service and picnic we held at the church on Sunday," Mr Morrison said.

"Just like when the community worked together to build the church all those years ago, it has again come together to support the parish and saving the church."

The church has not been used since it was discovered the floot had been ravaged by termites and although the parish was able to have the termites exterminated, it could not afford to pay for a new floor.

"We came up with the idea of a fundraising weekend and people just came around us and offered to help," Mr Morrison said. "This church has so much history and it is really important we can get it up and running again.

"Many locals have relatives buried in the cemetery, the council has plans to extend the cemetery, and the Berridale community is a fast growth area, with new subdivisions and many new families moving in."

Mr Morrison said the fundraiser plans began when he mentioned plans for the Gegedzerick restoration while at a meeting in Sydney.

"Two guys stayed back to talk to me - Neil Spencer who heads up a band called The Heralds which plays not for money but to raise money for charities - and another man who is related to the first white settlers in the area.

"The Heralds - which formed in the 1960s - had had a 42 year break, but got back together six years ago, and offered to come from Sydney to play a concert for Gegedzerick.

Coolamatong Golf Club offered its clubhouse and it just went from there."

Around 60 people attended the concert and another 55 attended the outdoor service and picnic at the church on Sunday, where The Heralds and Berridale musician and church member Simon Grace provided the music.

Fitting was the outdoor service held to mark the restoration of the church, with local historian Ian Burke, who will soon release a book on some never before published photographs and history of the church, pointing out services were held under a tree on the site, which still exists.

He said the first buriel, which started the Gegedzerick cemetery, was for an orphan who was being cared for by Gegedzerick station owner Richard Brooks and had drowned in the creek in 1829.

"The Bishop visited and conducted a service under the tree, which I call the Church Tree, which was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1888. He agreed to a chapel being build but they didnt geet around to it until 1855, so services were held under the tree until then.

Mr Burke was baptised in the church, where his parents were married.

"My mother was baptised here as were my grandparents," he said.

People wishing to donate to the fundraiser can deposit funds to the Anglican Parish of Berridale and Snowy Mountains Building Account BSB 032720, account 222687