Brougham Place Uniting Church

Church in South Australia, Australia

Edmund Wright
E. A. Hamilton
Thomas Frost (tower and hall)

Architectural typeChurchStyleVictorian Free ClassicalGroundbreaking15 May 1860Completed14 July 1872Construction costc. A£11,000AdministrationSynodSouth AustraliaPresbyteryWimalaParishBrougham PlaceClergyMinister(s)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

^ Sullivan, Christine (2008). "Architect Personal Details: Wright, Edmund William". Architects of South Australia. University of South Australia. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
^ Manning. "Place Names of South Australia - N - North Adelaide". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Archived from the original on 2 September 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
^ "Architects of South Australia - Architect Details - Frost, Thomas". Architects of South Australia. Architecture Museum, University of South Australia. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
^ "Brougham Place Uniting Church". OHTA Conference Book 1986. Organ Historical Trust of Australia. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^ "Congregationalism". South Australian Register. Vol. XXIII, no. 4063. South Australia. 21 October 1859. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Phillips, Walter (1972). "'Jefferis, James (1833–1917)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 22 June 2018.