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Location Flinders Street, Adelaide, South Australia Denomination Uniting Church in Australia Former name(s) Gawler Place Wesleyan Chapel, Pirie Street Wesleyan Church, Pirie Street Methodist Church, Stow Memorial Church, Union Church in the City Materials Glen Osmond stone, finished with cut freestone from Glen Ewin Address 12 Flinders St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Torrens Building, St Peter's Cathedral - Adelaide, Old Government House - S, Museum of Classical Archaeol Profiles | ||
Pilgrim Uniting Church is a church of the Uniting Church in Australia on Flinders Street, Adelaide, South Australia.
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Pirie Street Wesleyan Church
The congregation was originally at the Gawler Place Wesleyan Chapel. The first minister at the Pirie Street site was Daniel Draper. The first service was held on 19 October 1852.
Stow Memorial Church, Flinders Street
The first Congregational chapel in South Australia was a temporary structure on North Terrace. George Strickland Kingston was the architect for a building in Freeman Street (now Gawler Place), with the congregation then moving to the Flinders Street site.
The Stow Memorial Church, whose architect was Robert G. Thomas, was named in memory of the Reverend T. Q. Stow, who had conducted the first service in a tent on Adelaide's Park Lands in October 1837. The foundation stone was laid on 7 February 1865 and the inaugural worship service was held on 12 April 1867.
The first minister was Cadwallader William Evan, and the organist, who served for 45 years, was James Shakespeare.
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.
Pilgrim Uniting Church
In November 1975 the Union Church in the city changed its name to become Pilgrim Church. The congregation joined the Uniting Church at its inauguration in 1977.
Pirie Street
The foundation stone for the Pirie Street Wesleyan Chapel was laid on 15 July 1850. The church was designed by Henry Stuckey. Completion of the building, after Henry Stuckey's death in 1851, was under the supervision of Edmund Wright,
After the merger of the two congregations the building was bought by the Adelaide City Council and demolished in 1976. Wright was also the architect of the Methodist Meeting Hall, located between the Pirie Street and Flinders Street churches. The hall was built in 1862 and is the only remaining part of the Pirie Street property and is now part of the Adelaide Town Hall complex.
Flinders Street
The building had it foundation stone laid on 7 February 1865, it is in the Revival Gothic style.
The architect for the building was Robert George Thomas who was among the first colonists, arriving in South Australia in 1836 aged 16 years.
Organs
The organ in the Flinders Street building was initially installed in 1855 in the Pirie Street building with that from Flinders Street being sold to St John's Lutheran Church, Malvern, South Australia.
Stow Memorial Church
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