St Jude's Church, Brighton

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

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]

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:

  • James Ashton (1859–1935) artist
  • Sir Reginald Roderic St Clair Chamberlain (1901–1990) judge
  • Harold More Cooper (1886–1970) wireless operator, archaeologist and historian
  • Sidney Crawford (1885–1968) businessman and philanthropist
  • Alexander Crooks (1847–1943) bank manager, cricketer and embezzler
  • Josiah Eustace Dodd (1856–1952) organbuilder
  • Sir Herbert Sydney Hudd (1881–1948) politician
  • Sir Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic
  • Sir John Newland (1864–1932) railwayman and politician
  • Arthur James Perkins (1871–1944) agricultural scientist and viticulturist
  • Sir William Herbert Phillipps (1847–1935) merchant and philanthropist
  • Rowland Rees (1840–1904) architect and politician
  • Herbert Clarence Richards (1876–1949) businessman and motor-body manufacturer
  • Tobias John Martin Richards (1850–1939) manufacturer
  • Geoffrey Richard Shedley (1914–1981) architect and sculptor
  • William Knox Simms (1830–1897) brewer, businessman and politician
  • Richard Smith (1836–1919) merchant
  • Catherine Eliza (Katie) Stow (1856–1940) collector of Aboriginal legends
  • Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston (1863–1931) opal dealer

References

  1. ↑ "CHURCHES AND CHURCH AFFAIRS". The Register. LXXXIV (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. XIII (2571). 18 December 1854. p. 3. Retrieved 7 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "ST. JUDE'S ROW". The News. 63 (9, 700). Adelaide. 13 September 1954. p. 14. Retrieved 7 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

Official website

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