Pilgrim

PILGRIM CHURCH

ADELAIDE     UNITING

PAUL SCOTT

       

 

INDEX

 

A brief history of this Church is given below. However, if you want to begin your tour of the Church immediately, tap / click on START . You can also access intermediate points in the tour by a tap / click on the following links:

 

01 START

12 Entry

24 Porch

30 South Transept

34 Sanctuary

38 North Transept

52 Organ

54 History

 

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HISTORY

 

Year Built: 1850-51

Address: 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide SA 5000

 

Pilgrim Uniting Church is a church in the heart of the City on Flinders Street, Adelaide, South Australia. It is a church of the Uniting Church in Australia.

Social justice, as articulated by the Uniting Church in Australia in the inaugural Statement to the Nation (1977), and the Statement to the Nation (1988) for Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations, is at the basis of the church’s work. Pilgrim offers music programs to the public, and has the largest organ in Adelaide. The church is also an active supporter of local and young and upcoming artists.

 

History


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. 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.

Stow Memorial Church
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.

Stow Memorial Church, designed by Robert G. Thomas, was named in memory of the Reverend Thomas Stow, who had officiated at 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. 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. In November 1975 the church changed its name to become Pilgrim Church. The congregation joined the Uniting Church at its inauguration in 1977.

 

Buildings

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 its foundation stone laid on 7 February 1865. It is designed 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.

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