Pilgrim Uniting Church
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Style Gothic Revival | | |
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Capacity | 1,500 | |
Materials | Glen Osmond stone | |
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Synod | South Australia | |
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Pilgrim Uniting Church is a Uniting church located on Flinders Street, Adelaide in South Australia.
History
Pirie Street Wesleyan Church
The
William Bowen Chinner was organist and choirmaster at Pirie Street from 1869 to around 1899. His nephew Norman Chinner filled the same positions from 1939.[4]
Stow Memorial Church
The first
Stow Memorial Church, at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide, was named in memory of the Reverend
Union Church in the City
Pirie Street Methodist and Stow Memorial congregations united on 1 June 1969 to form the Union Church in the City. In November 1975 the church changed its name to become Pilgrim Church.[9] The congregation joined the Uniting Church at its inauguration in 1977.
Buildings
Pirie Street
The foundation stone for the
After the merger of the two congregations the building was bought by the
Flinders Street
The foundation stone of Stow Memorial Church, at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide, was laid on 7 February 1865.[7] It was designed in the Gothic Revival style[12] by Robert George Thomas, who was among the first colonists, arriving in South Australia in 1836 aged 16 years.[13]
Stow Hall, built 1872[14] alongside at 16 Flinders Street, has been a popular venue for amateur theatre productions.[15]
Organs
The organ in the Flinders Street building was initially installed in 1855 in the Pirie Street building[16] with that from Flinders Street being sold to St John's Lutheran Church in Malvern.[17] Improvements over the years have made it the largest organ in the state of South Australia.[18]
Notable people
Pirie Street Methodist Church
- Henry Adams
- John and Mary Colton[1][19]
- John Langdon Bonython
- Daniel Draper[1][20]
- Benjamin Gould
- Frank Hambly[21]
- John Hill
- Henry Howard (Minister 1902–1921)
- James Wedlock
Stow Memorial Church
- Mostyn Evan
- William Roby Fletcher, minister, appointed 1876
- Matthew Goode
- William Muirden[22]
- William Parkin
- Arthur William Piper[23]
- James Zimri Sellar[24]
- Thomas Hyland Smeaton
- Alfred Depledge Sykes, minister 1904–1906 and 1907–1913[25]
- Charles Todd[26]
- George Wright (1917–1975), a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, was the son of the Reverend George H. Wright, a minister at the Stow Memorial Church
Pilgrim Uniting Church
- Judith Blake[27]
- Thea Gaia[28]
- Basil Hetzel
- Penny Wong
Laneway renaming
In August 2022, the City of Adelaide renamed the laneway adjacent to the church, formerly Pilgrim Lane, to Paul Kelly Lane, after Paul Kelly, a well-known musician who grew up in Norwood. This was the fourth such renaming by the council, to honour musicians associated with the city.[29]
Gallery
References
- ^ a b c "Odd Aspects Of City Church's Centenary". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 8 July 1950. p. 2. Retrieved 9 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "Opening Of The New Wesleyan Chapel, Pirie-Street". Adelaide Times. SA. 20 October 1851. p. 3. Retrieved 10 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Farewell Social to Mr. Norman Chinner, LRSM". Australian Christian Commonwealth. Vol. 52, no. 2636. South Australia. 28 April 1939. p. 3. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Freeman Street Congregational Chapel, Adelaide Memories, State Library of South Australia
- The South Australian Advertiser. Vol. VII, no. 2038. 8 February 1865. p. 2. Retrieved 18 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b "Stow Memorial Church". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 15 April 1867. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXI, no. 18, 473. South Australia. 27 January 1906. p. 7. Retrieved 25 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Libraries Australia Authorities on Union Church in the City
- ^ a b "New Wesleyan Chapel, Pirie-Street". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 16 July 1850. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Pirie Street Methodist Church at Adelaide City Heritage, National Trust of Australia accessed 8 January 2016
- ^ Stow Memorial Church at Adelaide City Heritage, National Trust of Australia accessed 8 January 2016
- ^ Christine Sullivan, (2008), Architects of South Australia: Robert George Thomas, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au accessed 8 January 2016
- ^ "Adelaide City Heritage: Stow Hall". National Trust of South Australia. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
- ^ "Stow Hall". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 6 September 1937. p. 12. Retrieved 2 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Pilgrim Uniting (formerly Stow Congregational) Church, Organ Historical Trust of Australia
- ^ Organs in Malvern, South Australia, Organ Historical Trust of Australia
- ^ Pilgrim Uniting (Congregational) Church, Organ Historical Trust of Australia
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ^ Pilgrim Church website
- ^ Peacock, Glenys (2 July 2016). "thea Gaia née Dorothy Ivy Wacker: Feminist Foremother and a Great "Ponderer"". Feminism & Religion. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ Davies, Richard (4 August 2022). "Adelaide City Council renames laneway in honour of musician Paul Kelly". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 August 2022.