In 1850 a parsonage was built on the southern half of Acre 745 It became the deanery for Dean Marryat in 1887, then a rectory from 1906.[2]
In 1868 a site on Jeffcott Street opposite the church was purchased for a schoolroom.[2] The foundation stone was laid on 26 September.
Architecture
Front view of the church, 2025
The church building is in the Romanesque Revival architectural style and was built under the direction of architects Henry Stuckey and William Weir. It is built of local limestone mined from Palmer Place, with slateroof tiles from Willunga.[3] In 1855 the nave was extended on the western side by some 50 feet (15m).[4]
The church's first instrument was a harmonium, replaced in 1854 by the pipe organ from J. B. Graham's mansion Prospect House ("Graham's Castle"),[9] and opened by George Bennett,[10] one of his last performances.[11] The new acquisition was heavily criticised,[12] then refurbished and greatly enlarged the following year.[13] It still had faults: it was so badly affected by weather that in winter it took six kerosene lamps burning for an hour before it would play.
A new organ was purchased from August Gern[a] of London and the old one bought by organist James Shakespeare.[14][15]
It was later[when?] installed in the Norwood Baptist Church[16] where it served until replaced by J. E. Dodd in 1884.[17]
↑ "Christ Church Rectory (Anglican)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
↑ "Christ Church Hall". S. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
↑ "Advertising". Adelaide Times. Vol.VIII, no.1120. South Australia. 11 March 1854. p.2. Retrieved 16 February 2018– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "The Late Mr Bennett". Adelaide Observer. Vol.XII, no.588. South Australia. 30 September 1854. p.3. Retrieved 17 February 2018– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "The Organ Plays". The News (Adelaide). Vol.40, no.6, 182. South Australia. 22 May 1943. p.2. Retrieved 25 August 2020– via National Library of Australia.
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