Brougham Place Uniting Church
Church in South Australia, Australia
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Brougham Place Uniting Church is a Uniting church located at Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia.
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Main entrance of Brougham Place Uniting Church, 2004 | |
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| Location | Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Denomination | Uniting (since 1977) |
Previous denomination | Congregational (1859 – 1977) |
| Website | bpuc |
| History | |
Former name | North Adelaide Congregational Church |
| Status | Church |
| Founded | 20 October 1859 |
| Founder | Rev. James Jefferis |
| Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
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Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Victorian Free Classical |
| Groundbreaking | 15 May 1860 |
| Completed | 14 July 1872 |
Construction cost | c. A£11,000 |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Brougham Place |
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]
The church was at one time referred to as Jefferis' Church[5] for James Jefferis, the first pastor, who served from its inception on 20 October 1859,[6] when services were held in the temperance hall in Tynte Street, North Adelaide, to 1877, then from 1895 to 1901, when he retired.[7]
It looks over Brougham Gardens in the Adelaide Parklands.
