Flinders Street Baptist Church

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Flinders Street Baptist Church
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Flinders Street Baptist Church, 1923
Flinders Street Baptist Church
34°55′38″S138°36′11″E / 34.927115°S 138.603171°E / -34.927115; 138.603171
Address71-75 Flinders Street, Adelaide, South Australia
CountryAustralia
Denomination Baptist
Associations Australian Baptist Ministries
Website fsbc.asn.au
History
Status Church
Dedicated19 May 1863
Architecture
Architect(s) Robert G. Thomas
Architectural typeChurch
Style Gothic Revival
Years built1861 1863
Construction cost 7,000
Specifications
Materials Bluestone; sandstone
Clergy
Minister(s) Rev Scott Cadman
Official nameFlinders Street Baptist Church
TypeState heritage
Designated28 May 1981

Flinders Street Baptist Church is a heritage-listed Baptist church located at 71-75 Flinders Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The church is affiliated with the Australian Baptist Ministries.

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History

In response to a call by George Fife Angas for a Baptist minister to found a new congregation in Adelaide, Rev. Silas Mead emigrated aboard Parisian, arriving in July 1861. [1] He began taking regular services at White's Rooms and soon his enthusiastic congregation decided to build a large church on Acre 273 in Flinders Street on the west corner of Divett Place. [2]

Robert G. Thomas, the architect who would later be responsible for the Stow Memorial Church (now Pilgrim Uniting Church), was selected to design the building, which is of Gothic revival style in bluestone and sandstone with elaborate capitals on the columns, a rose window and front entrance with three arches supported by pillars. [3]

The building, which cost 7,000 and took English & Brown two years to build, was opened on 19 May 1863. The debt was cleared the following year, Mead Hall was erected in 1867–1870, and the manse was built in 1877. [4]

The Australian Baptist Missionary Society was formed at the church under Rev Silas Mead in 1864, and the first missionary, Ellen Arnold, sent from there in 1882. [5]

Pastors

Heritage listing

On 28 May 1981, the church was listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. [6]

The manse, in which Mead dwelt and his successors dwelt for many years, is now known as the Baptist Church Office, also known as Flinders House. [7] Both the manse and Mead Hall were listed on 11 December 1997. [8] [9]

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References

  1. "The Baptists". South Australian Register . Vol. XXV, no. 4600. South Australia. 15 July 1861. p. 2. Retrieved 24 May 2018 via National Library of Australia.
  2. "New Baptist Chapel". The South Australian Advertiser . Vol. IV, no. 1068. South Australia. 19 December 1861. p. 3. Retrieved 24 May 2018 via National Library of Australia.
  3. Flinders Street Baptist Church, Adelaide, 1925, retrieved 24 May 2018
  4. Flinders Street Baptist Church, 1933, retrieved 24 May 2018
  5. Gooden, Rosalind M. (2014). "The First Australasian Baptist Missionary: Ellen Arnold and the Bengalis, 1882-1931". In David Bebbington (ed.). Interfaces Baptists and Others: International Baptist Studies. Authentic Media Inc. ISBN   9781780783147.
  6. "Flinders Street Baptist Church, 71-75 Flinders Street ADELAIDE". Heritage Places Database. South Australian Government. 28 May 1981. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  7. "8 Heritage Buildings in Flinders Street, Adelaide". Weekend Notes. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  8. "65-69 Flinders Street ADELAIDE". The South Australia Heritage Places database. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  9. "Rear 65 Flinders Street ADELAIDE". The South Australia Heritage Places database. Retrieved 10 November 2022.