St Jude's Church, Brighton Explained

Religious Affiliation:	Christianity
Location:	Brighton, South Australia
Groundbreaking:	1854

St Jude's Church, Brighton is an Anglican church on Brighton Road, Brighton, South Australia.^[1]

History

The land for the church was purchased from John Alexander Voules Brown. The foundation stone was laid on 16 December 1854 by Lady Fox Young^[2] with Archbishop Augustus Short conducting the service.^[3]

For the first ten years of its existence, St Jude's was served by the incumbent of St Mary's on the Sturt, who also had responsibility for Christ Church, O'Halloran Hill.

On 24 December 1948 the St Jude's Players had their beginning.

The church was seriously damaged in the 1954 Adelaide earthquake.^[4]

People

• Henry Dutton, pastoralist
• Garry Weatherill
• Hartley Williams, curate 1879–1881

St. Jude's Cemetery

People interred in the cemetery include:^[5]

• James Ashton (1859–1935) artist
• Robert Bungey (1914–1943) fighter pilot of WWII
• Sir Reginald Roderic St Clair Chamberlain (1901–1990) judge
• Harold More Cooper (1886–1970) wireless operator, archaeologist and historian
• Sidney Crawford (1885–1968) businessman and philanthropist
• Alexander Crooks (1847–1943) bank manager, cricketer and embezzler
• Josiah Eustace Dodd (1856–1952) organbuilder
• Sir Herbert Sydney Hudd (1881–1948) politician
• Sir Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic
• Sir John Newland (1864–1932) railwayman and politician
• Arthur James Perkins (1871–1944) agricultural scientist and viticulturist
• Sir William Herbert Phillipps (1847–1935) merchant and philanthropist
• Max Pontifex Australian rules footballer who played with West Torrens in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL)
• Rowland Rees (1840–1904) architect and politician
• Herbert Clarence Richards (1876–1949) businessman and motor-body manufacturer
• Tobias John Martin Richards (1850–1939) manufacturer
• Alfred Jabez Roberts OBE (1863–1939), stockbroker, mayor, and sportsman
• George Klewitz Soward (1857 – 1941), architect and politician
• Geoffrey Richard Shedley (1914–1981), architect and sculptor
• William Knox Simms (1830–1897) brewer, businessman and politician
• Richard Smith (1836–1919) merchant
• K. Langloh Parker aka Catherine Eliza (Katie) Stow (1856–1940), collector of Aboriginal legends
• Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston (1863–1931) opal dealer

External links

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Notes and References

1. News: Churches and Church Affairs . . LXXXIV . 25,958 . Adelaide . 8 March 1924 . 7 October 2017 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
2. Lady Augusta Sophia Fox Young nee Marryat, the wife of the Governor Sir Henry Edward Fox Young.
3. News: Saint Jude's Church, Brighton . . XIII . 2571 . 18 December 1854 . 7 October 2017 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: St Jude's Row . . 63 . 9,700 . Adelaide . 13 September 1954 . 7 October 2017 . 14 . National Library of Australia.
5. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biographies/search/?scope=all&query=%22buried+in+St.+Jude%22+Brighton&x=0&y=0&rs= Australian Dictionary of Biography