St Jude's Church, Brighton

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

People interred in the cemetery include: [5]

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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. Australian Dictionary of Biography

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