St Jude's Church, Brighton

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St Jude's Church, Brighton
Religion
Affiliation Christianity
Location
Location Brighton, South Australia
St Jude's Church, Brighton
Architecture
Groundbreaking1854

St Jude's Church, Brighton is an Anglican church on Brighton Road, Brighton, South Australia. [1]

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History

The land for the church was purchased from John Alexander Voules Brown. The foundation stone was laid on 16 December 1854 by Lady Fox Young [2] with Archbishop Augustus Short conducting the service. [3]

For the first ten years of its existence, St Jude's was served by the incumbent of St Mary's on the Sturt, who also had responsibility for Christ Church, O'Halloran Hill.

On 24 December 1948 the St Jude's Players had their beginning.

The church was seriously damaged in the 1954 Adelaide earthquake. [4]

People

St Jude's Cemetery

Though Church of England property, [5] the churchyard adjacent St Jude's church was properly known as Brighton Cemetery [6] until 1930. The large public graveyard on the other side of Brighton Road and further north is the North Brighton Cemetery.

The Australian Dictionary of Biography lists as the following people interred in the cemetery: [7] [8]

Other individuals interred there include:

References

  1. ↑ "Churches and Church Affairs". The Register . Vol. LXXXIV, no. 25, 958. Adelaide. 8 March 1924. p. 6. Retrieved 7 October 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ Lady Augusta Sophia Fox Young nee Marryat, the wife of the Governor Sir Henry Edward Fox Young.
  3. ↑ "Saint Jude's Church, Brighton". South Australian Register . Vol. XIII, no. 2571. 18 December 1854. p. 3. Retrieved 7 October 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "St Jude's Row". The News . Vol. 63, no. 9, 700. Adelaide. 13 September 1954. p. 14. Retrieved 7 October 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Saint Jude's Church, Brighton". South Australian Register . Vol. XIII, no. 2571. South Australia. 18 December 1854. p. 3. Retrieved 15 January 2025– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Old Cemeteries". The Register (Adelaide) . Vol. LXXXV, no. 22, 958. South Australia. 8 June 1920. p. 6. Retrieved 15 January 2025– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "Searching : buried in St. Jude Brighton" (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
  8. ↑ Searching : St Judes Anglican Church brighton (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
  9. ↑ Jacka, F. J. (1986) [Published online 2006]. "Sir Douglas Mawson (1882–1958)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Vol. 10 (Online ed.). Melbourne University Press (MUP); National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. pp. 454–457. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Five Chief Air Officers at Bungey's Funeral". The News. 12 June 1943. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  11. ↑ "Many Attend Burial Of Mr. A. J. Roberts". News . Vol. XXXIII, no. 4, 975. South Australia. 5 July 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 12 July 2025– via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "DEATH OF MR. W. K. SIMMS". South Australian Register . Vol. LXII, no. 15, 950. South Australia. 27 December 1897. p. 7. Retrieved 12 July 2025– via National Library of Australia.

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