Brougham Place Uniting Church Explained

Brougham Place Uniting Church
Coordinates:-34.9094°N 138.6003°W
Location:Brougham Place,, South Australia
Country:Australia
Former Name:North Adelaide Congregational Church
Founder:Rev. James Jefferis
Status:Church
Functional Status:Active
Architectural Type:Church
Style:Victorian Free Classical
Groundbreaking:15 May 1860
Completed Date:14 July 1872
Parish:Brougham Place
Presbytery:Wimala
Synod:South Australia
Minister:Rev. Linda Driver

Brougham Place Uniting Church is a Uniting church located at Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia.

History

Edmund Wright won an architectural competition for the design of the church in 1859, then Brougham Place Congregational Church.[1] The foundation stone was laid on 15 May 1860.[2]

A tower was added in 1871 and a lecture hall in 1878, designed by architect Thomas Frost.[3] The pipe organ was built in 1881 at which time it was "the largest two manual organ in the colony", and restored in 1914.[4]

James Jefferis was the first pastor, serving from its inception on 20 October 1859,[5] when services were held in the temperance hall in Tynte Street, North Adelaide, to 1877, then from 1895 to 1901, when he retired.[6]

It looks over Brougham Gardens in the Adelaide Parklands.

References

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Architect Personal Details: Wright, Edmund William. Architects of South Australia . . 2008 . Christine . Sullivan. 14 April 2024.
  2. Web site: Manning. Place Names of South Australia - N - North Adelaide. The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. 18 December 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070902143400/http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/n/northad1.htm. 2 September 2007. dmy-all.
  3. Web site: Architects of South Australia - Architect Details - Frost, Thomas. Architects of South Australia. Architecture Museum, University of South Australia. 18 December 2016.
  4. Web site: Brougham Place Uniting Church . OHTA Conference Book 1986 . . 2010-10-07.
  5. News: Congregationalism . . XXIII . 4063 . South Australia . 21 October 1859 . 30 September 2021 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  6. Walter . Phillips . 'Jefferis, James (1833–1917) . 4 . 1972 . jefferis-james-3853 . 22 June 2018.