Brougham Place Uniting Church

Brougham Place Uniting Church
Brougham Place Uniting Church
	Main entrance of Brougham Place Uniting Church, 2004
	34°54′34″S 138°36′1″E / 34.90944°S 138.60028°E
Location	Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia
Country	Australia
Denomination	Uniting (since 1977)
Previous denomination	Congregational (1859 – 1977)
Website	bpuc.org
History
Former name(s)	North Adelaide Congregational Church
Status	Church
Founded	20 October 1859
Founder(s)	Rev. James Jefferis
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Edmund Wright; E. A. Hamilton; Thomas Frost (tower and hall);
Architectural type	Church
Style	Victorian Free Classical
Groundbreaking	15 May 1860
Completed	14 July 1872
Construction cost	c. A£11,000
Administration
Synod	South Australia
Presbytery	Wimala
Parish	Brougham Place
Clergy
Minister(s)	Rev. Linda Driver

Brougham Place Uniting Church is a Uniting church located at Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia.

History

Edmund Wright won an architectural competition for the design of the church in 1859, then Brougham Place Congregational Church.^[1] The foundation stone was laid on 15 May 1860.^[2]

A tower was added in 1871 and a lecture hall in 1878, designed by architect Thomas Frost.^[3] The pipe organ was built in 1881 at which time it was "the largest two manual organ in the colony", and restored in 1914.^[4]

The church was at one time referred to as Jefferis' Church^[5] for James Jefferis, the first pastor, who served from its inception on 20 October 1859,^[6] when services were held in the temperance hall in Tynte Street, North Adelaide, to 1877, then from 1895 to 1901, when he retired.^[7]

It looks over Brougham Gardens in the Adelaide Parklands.