Kensington, South Australia
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Kensington is a suburb of
History
The village of Kensington was surveyed in November 1838 by J.H. Hughes, the first in the immediate area, and was named after Kensington Palace. The streets were laid out diagonally in order to minimise crossings of Second Creek, with the main streets, High Street and Regent Street, running parallel to the creek.[2]
Wellington and Bridge Streets, in the south-western corner of the suburb, were first to be settled, and Bridge Street was the main street until a tramline was laid along High Street in the 1870s. John Roberts and other builders were responsible for building many brick residences after the 1840s.[2]
First Anglican bishop Augustus Short first lived in Kensington after his arrival in December 1847, on the corner of Bishop's Place and Regent Street.[3]
The
A Catholic nun, now a saint, Mary MacKillop lived and worked in Kensington from 1872 until 1883, establishing the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Congregation. The Mary MacKillop Precinct is located site, and includes a museum, a conference centre, and St Joseph's Chapel.[5] Mary MacKillop College is also within the precinct.[6]
The Kensington line was the first of several trams in Adelaide, firstly horse-drawn (1878) and later electrified.[7] The Adelaide & Suburban Tramway Company built and ran a horse-drawn tramway from Kensington to the Adelaide city centre, comprising double tracks that ran down The Parade. A single loop track ran up Regent Street and back down High Street.[2]
Historic buildings
The suburb contains a large number of
The Rising Sun
The Rising Sun Hotel was established in 1846 by William Beck, a "black African" man who had previously run the Kensington Arms; the hotel was later referred to as "Black Becks".
Newlyn moved the inn to a new two-storey building on the corner of High Street
The old building, owned by Smith until 1913, was converted into three residential tenancies. It was used as a
The internationally renowned visual effects company, Rising Sun Pictures, took its name from the pub[17] after its founders had their first meeting there[18] in 1995.[17]
In 2015 Grant Goodall took over the establishment from its previous owner of eight years, chef Tom Savis.[18] Today it is known as simply "The Rising Sun".[9]
Location and governance
Kensington lies approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) due east of Adelaide city centre.
Nearby suburbs
Schools
Marryatville Primary School is a
Mary MacKillop College is a private Catholic girls' secondary school located in Kensington, founded by Mary MacKillop in 1872.[6]
McKellar Stewart Kindergarten is a preschool on Regent Place.[22]
The junior primary campus of St Joseph's Memorial School, catering for children from preschool to Year 1, is in Bridge Street, Kensington, while its other campus in William Street, Norwood, caters for Year 2 to Year 6.[23]
A middle school STEM building for Pembroke School is located in Kensington, adjacent to the main middle school facilities in Kensington Park. The building was designed by architects Grieve Gillett Anderson and opened in 2019.[24]
Other amenities
Parks
Borthwick Park has its front entrance on Thornton Street,
Kensington Pioneer Park was created on a former church graveyard in Maesbury Street, and was named in honour of the pioneers of the area who were buried in the cemetery between February 1849 to October 1864.
Other amenities
Norwood Swimming Centre, an outdoor pool owned by the council, is in Phillips Street.[30]
High Street Cafe is next to Mary McKillop School.[31][32]
Apart from the Rising Sun (mentioned above), there is another pub, the Kensington Hotel, aka "The Kensi", on Regent Street.[33]
Notable residents
Notable residents of Kensington have included:
- Dr John Benson (died July 1877), who lived at 50 High Street and practised in Kensington for ten years, and was much respected[2]
- Arthur Henry Freeling, Surveyor General & Colonial Engineer[2]
- Edward Castres Gwynne, Supreme Court Judge[2]
- Mary MacKillop, Catholic nun and later saint[6]
- Alfred Mundy, Colonial Secretary[4]
- Augustus Short, first Anglican Bishop[2]
- Dr Thomas Taylor, one of the state's first medical practitioners[2]
- Charles Algernon Wilson (died 1884), Commissioner of Inland Revenue from 1858; first Chief Clerk at the Supreme Court from 1876[34]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Kensington (SA) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Kensington Residents Association". Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ "Augustus Short". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXX, no. 5, 960. South Australia. 21 April 1923. p. 41. Retrieved 26 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b "Place Names of South Australia: Marryatville". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "Mary MacKillop Precinct – Mary MacKillop Precinct". Mary MacKillop Precinct. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ a b c "History". Mary MacKillop College Kensington. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ISBN 1-86254-597-9.
- ^ "Kensington [search]". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "The History of the Rising Sun Inn ‹ The Rising Sun Inn". The Rising Sun Inn. 12 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Rising Sun Hotel, Kensington" (Photo + text). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XIX, no. 5, 661. South Australia. 22 November 1882. p. 2 (Second Edition). Retrieved 12 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Friendly societies". South Australian Register. Vol. LV, no. 13, 576. South Australia. 19 May 1890. p. 7. Retrieved 12 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Inquest". South Australian Register. Vol. XLVIII, no. 11, 573. South Australia. 17 December 1883. p. 6. Retrieved 12 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Coroner's Inquest". South Australian Register. Vol. XLIX, no. 11, 642. South Australia. 7 March 1884. p. 2 (Supplement to the South Australian Register). Retrieved 12 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Rising Sun Inn". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ "38&40 also known as U1 & 2 38 High Street KENSINGTON". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Our Story". Rising Sun Pictures. 16 February 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ InDaily. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ "About Us". Marryatville Primary School. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- Evening Journal (Adelaide). Vol. XVI, no. 4696. South Australia. 10 June 1884. p. 3 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 12 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Schools Heritage Comp site: The Old Marryatville Primary School". Archived from the original on 6 August 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "McKellar Stewart Kindergarten". McKellar Stewart Kindergarten. 13 June 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Our History". St Joseph's Memorial School. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Day one of Pembroke's new Middle School building". Grieve Gillett Anderson. 26 July 2019.
- ^ Budzynska, Lucy (20 September 2023). "Explore the fauna and flora in our beautiful city". KIDDO Mag. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Borthwick Park Revegetation Project". Kensington Residents' Association. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Alby South". Monument Australia. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Pioneers of Kensington & Norwood". Monument Australia. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "South Australia- Kensington Pioneer Park (ex Cemetery)". Australian Cemeteries. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Swimming Centre Locations & Facilities". City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. 4 November 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Activities, Events & Things to do in Adelaide with Kids". Kids In Adelaide. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ McNamara, Lindy (6 November 2020). "New café in good hands". The Southern Cross. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Home". The Kensi, Kensington Hotel. 6 November 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ Loyau, George E. (1885). "Charles Algernon Wilson". Notable South Australians. Retrieved 20 December 2023 – via Wikisource.
Further reading
- "Kensington and Marryatville". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 25, 678. South Australia. 16 April 1923. p. 8 – via National Library of Australia. Contains a great deal of detail about residents and buildings in both Kensington and Marryatville before 1923.
- Much of the early history of Kensington, Marryatville and Heathpool are described in this article, which has been split into three by the scanning process on Trove:
- "Kensington and Marryatville". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXX, no. 5, 960. South Australia. 21 April 1923. p. 40 – via National Library of Australia. (Part one of single article)
- "For the Wealthy and Industrious". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXX, no. 5, 960. South Australia. 21 April 1923. p. 40 – via National Library of Australia. (Part two of Kensington and Marryatville article) Covers Heathpool.
- "Kensington—Old and New". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXX, no. 5, 961. South Australia. 28 April 1923. p. 14 – via National Library of Australia. Contains details about First and Second Creeks, the streets of Kensington, Kensington Oval, the tramways, Kensington Park, etc.; continued on next page, "Kensington—Old and New [cont.]". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXX, no. 5, 961. South Australia. 28 April 1923. p. 15. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via National Library of Australia.