ST PETER’S CHURCH
GLENELG ANGLICAN
PAUL SCOTT
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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:
HISTORY
Year Built: 1852, 1881-1882
Address: Torrens Square, Augusta Street, Glenelg SA 5045
Sitting in the middle of Torrens Square, Augusta Street, St Peter’s Anglican Church has a unique place in the heart of Glenelg and South Australia. A new conservation appeal will support the ongoing preservation of this important church for future generations.
Torrens Square was set aside for a church at Glenelg by Colonel William Light in 1839. The first church, built in 1852, was reported by the SA Register (29 March 1852) to be “on the very spot where some sixteen years ago the glad tidings of the Gospel truth were first proclaimed in the colony” referring to the first service in the colony led by Rev. C.B. Howard on 1st January 1837. This first church soon proved too small and a new church, designed by Edmund W. Wright, was founded in 1881 and opened in 1882.
Every week visitors to St Peter’s are astounded by its beautiful collection of stained glass windows. When the Advertiser reported on the dedication of the final window to be installed in 1923 they wrote: “no other building in the State can compare with this fine church in this respect, and doubtless few South Australians have any idea that so much beauty can be found in any sacred edifice in or around Adelaide” – surely a statement which is just as true today.
In 2017, following a very successful appeal through the National Trust of South Australia, the Great West Window, depicting themes of resurrection, was fully restored at a cost of some $100,000.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/st-peters-church-glenelg/
