Church Name: | St Andrew's Anglican Church |
Church Previous Name: | - |
Denomination: | Anglican Church of Australia |
Street Address: | 228 New St, Brighton VIC 3186, Australia |
Suburb: | Brighton |
State: | VIC |
Postcode: | 3186 |
Foundation Stone Laid: | unknown |
Foundation Stone Notes: | No foundation stone details are known about the first church/school building of 1842. Information/photographs are invited. The foundation stone for the second church building was laid on 29/8/1850 by the Rt Rev Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne. The text on the foundation stone is not known. Information/photographs are invited. The foundation stone on the hall records: St Andrew's Parish Hall - This memorial stone was laid by - The Archbishop of Melbourne - Harrington Clare Lees DD - on 18th April 1925 - Vicar: Canon W Hancock MA - Church Wardens ~ John Bishop, C L Marquand, V Gedye ... The foundation stone on the post 1961 fire building records: In the Faith of Jesus - who is our corner-stone - The Archbishop of Melbourne - The Most Reverend Frank Woods MA DD - laid this foundation stone - on the 8th April 1962. A plaque records: This cross from the gable - of the north transept - together with the - blue-stone walls of the - old nave, survived the - fire which destroyed old - St Andrew's on February 19th - 1961. A plaque on a gate post records: This is one of the original - gate posts of the first - Church of St Andrew's, the church then being situated - at No 1 St Andrews St - from 1842 ~ 1850. The stones of the base - are from the third church- destroyed by fire - 1961. A Nationsl Trust of Australia - Victoria plaque records: St Andrew's - Historic Graveyard - The first Christian Burial - 9th November 1844. |
Date Opened: | 30-11-1842 |
Date Closed: | unknown |
Email: | admin@churchesaustralia.org |
Note: Photograph attribution/source - By Newcranston at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48357234
For more of the story see - St Andrew's Brighton, 1841 ~ 1992: a short history /by Weston Bate. Bib ID 4493267 AND The Anglican Parish of St Andrew, Brighton: a history in celebration of one hundred and seventy years of ministry and fifty years of rebuilding /The Rev Canon Jan Joustra. etc. Bib ID 6537637. Neither sighted.