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State: South Australia, Denomination: Uniting


Port Adelaide, SA - Uniting

Port Adelaide, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1867

Address: 169 Charlotten Street, , South Australia, 5015

The Congregationalists bought a large block of land along Commercial Road from the Port Land Company (near Dunn & Sons new Mill) in 1866, after the church they had built on the corner of St Vincent Street and Lipson Street burnt down in April of that year. The foundation stone was laid on 16 July 1867 by Mr T Graves and the church opened…

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Port Elliot, SA - Uniting

Port Elliot, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1899

Address: William Street, , Port Elliot South Australia, 5212

Formerly a Congragational church it was called the Hotham Memorial Church. The Foundation stone was laid on 29 November 1899 by Mrs John Hotham. The Architect was C.E. Taplin. A Foundation stone was laid for the church hall in 1941.

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Port Wakefield, SA - Uniting

Port Wakefield, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1885

Address: Mine Street, , Port Wakefield South Australia, 5550

Formerly a Wesleyan Methodist church the Foundation stone was laid on 15 April 1885. A smaller church building on the left was built in 1868.

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Prospect, SA - Islington Uniting

Prospect, SA - Islington Uniting

Address: Corner King & Redin Streets, , Prospect South Australia, 5082

In 1841 Islington and Bowden were bracketed together as a preaching place in the March quarter plan of the Wesleyan Methodists and at the annual meeting of March 28 1842 there was a report of the Sunday school at Islington being closed. In the 1850's Robert Burdon emigrated from England with parents John and Ann and began to but up…

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Riverton, SA - Uniting

Riverton, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1964

Address: Moorhouse Terrace, , Riverton South Australia, 5412

Formerly the Pioneer Methodist church the Foundation stone was laid in May 1964.

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Rosefield, SA - Uniting

Rosefield, SA - Uniting

Address: 2 Carlton Street, , Highgate South Australia, 5063

Also known as William Jefferies Memorial Church. Prior to purchasing the land services were held in private homes around Myrtle Bank. The current Church was built in 1968, following the demolition of the second church which was opened on 21 August 1922. An earlier iron church dated from 1911.

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Saddleworth, SA - Uniting

Saddleworth, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1861

Address: Spur Road, , Saddleworth South Australia, 5413

Formerly a Methodist church it was built in 1861 for a cost of 10.00. All the materials were provided free by local residents. It was used as the local school until that building was erected in 1870. Extensions were carried out in 1869 for a cost of 250.00. The porch was added in 1929.

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Salisbury, SA - Uniting

Salisbury, SA - Uniting

Address: Corner Park & Brown Terrace, , Salisbury South Australia, 5108

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Seacliff, SA - Uniting

Seacliff, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1928

Address: 7 Wheatland Street, , Seacliff South Australia, 5049

The Foundation stone was laid on 25 February 1928 by S.W. Bailey Esq. The Memorial Hall was erected in 1956 and that foundation stone was laid by Mrs E.A. Story.

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Seaton, SA - Uniting

Seaton, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1972

Address: Corner Squires & Owen Avenues, , Seaton South Australia, 5023

The Foundation stone was laid on 16 April 1972.

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Snowtown, SA - Uniting

Snowtown, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1909

Address: 15 Railway Terrace West, , Snowtown South Australia, 5520

Formerly a Methodist Church the Architect was C.H. Colhan. The first church foundation stone was laid on New Year's Day, 1880 by Mrs Gavin Freebairn of Condowie. It was completed several months later with many local people assisting the builder Mr W.H. Hall and making donations of materials: The Foundation stone of the current church…

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Spalding, SA - Uniting

Spalding, SA - Uniting

Address: Edwin Street, , Spalding South Australia, 5454

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Strathalbyn, SA - St Andrew's Uniting

Strathalbyn, SA - St Andrew's Uniting

Year Built: 1844

Address: 10 Alfred Place, , Strathalbyn South Australia, 5255

The first church was erected on this site in 1844 by Scottish Presbyterians. In 1859 the transepts were added to create more room. Edward Stirling donated a bell for the church which was cast in Sheffield England but it was too heavy so a Bell tower was erected in 1859. In 1895 Mrs E. J. Tucker decided the bell tower needed a clock so she…

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Tailem Bend, SA - Uniting

Tailem Bend, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1927

Address: Gollan Street, , Tailem Bend South Australia, 5259

The Foundation stone of the original church was laid on 22 September 1900. It was later re laid at the request of L.A. Pontt on 5 December 1938. The Foundation stone of the current church was laid on 21 May 1927 by Mrs A.D. McCutcheon.

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Tanunda, SA - Uniting

Tanunda, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1993

Address: William Street, , Tanunda South Australia, 5352

The Foundation stone was laid on 14 February 1993.

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Tintinara, SA - Uniting

Tintinara, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1966

Address: Wendt Terrace, , Tintinara South Australia, 5266

The Church was built by and for the Parkin Mission for the Congregational Church in 1966 replacing its former building which was purchased and used by the CWA. Early in the 20th Century the Congregationalists and the Methodists agreed that in towns along the Dukes highway between Tailem Bend and Bordertown would be serviced by the…

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Truro, SA - Uniting

Truro, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1860

Address: 35 The Esplanade, , Truro South Australia, 5356

The first Congregational congregation in the area had been formed in 1850 at Wheal Barton and comprised Cornish miners. It closed with the mine and the first Congregational church in Truro opened in 1854 with a congregation of 9 people. It cost £600. It was enlarged in 1879 by adding rooms. The Church was opened by Reverend T. Q. Stow…

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Unley, SA - Uniting

Unley, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1903

Address: 187 Unley Road, , Unley South Australia, 5061

A random coursed Gothic Revival style sandstone church building with rendered trim, bluestone base course with some rendered bands, sandstone buttresses with rendered quoins and capping and tall pointed arch windows. The foundation stone reads: 'New Parkside Congregational Church, this stone was laid by Mrs S J Way on May 21st 1898.…

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Urania, SA - Uniting

Urania, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1884

Address: Government Road, , Urania South Australia, 5573

Formerly a Methodist Church. The Foundation stone was laid on Friday 11th of September 1903. The size of the church was to be 40 ft. by 26 ft, and the contract price, exclusive of seats and lamps, was £251 9/. The land was od one acre was given by Mr. Fred. Greenslade. The Church was built in 1884.

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Verdun, SA - Mack Memorial Uniting

Verdun, SA - Mack Memorial Uniting

Address: Onkaparinga Valley Road, , Verdun South Australia, 5245

The foundation stone was laid on 21st December 1935 by Florence Mack, widow of Albert Walter Mack and was opened on 28th March 1936 as Verdun Mack Memorial Methodist church. The church is made of red brick and has a porch attached with seating accommodation of 150. The first church was opened in July 1879 as Stanley Bridge Bible…

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Victor Harbor, SA - Adare Uniting

Victor Harbor, SA - Adare Uniting

Address: The Drive, , Victor Harbor South Australia, 5211

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Victor Harbor, SA - Newland Memorial Uniting

Victor Harbor, SA - Newland Memorial Uniting

Year Built: 1846

Address: 28 Victoria Road, , Victor Harbor South Australia, 5211

By 1846 a chapel, 28ft x 19ft was built of limestone with French doors opening on to a verandah had been built and by 1850 the members of this church had decided to become Congregationalist. The first church was opened in 1869 on land donated by Mr A,F. Lindsay. Rev. Ridgway Newland led the first major group of settlers to Encounter…

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Waikerie, SA - Uniting

Waikerie, SA - Uniting

Address: 23 McCoy Street, , Waikerie South Australia, 5330

The first Methodist services held at Walikerie were led by the Rev. Coyly Butler, who called in the mission boat 'Glad Tidings'. With Methodist Union a few services were conducted each year by the Morgan Mission. In 1909 Mr. J. Moses Gabb was placed in charge of the River Murray Mission, travelling from Morgan to Loxton in the launch…

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Walkerville, SA - Uniting

Walkerville, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1912

Address: 17 Smith Street, , Walkerville South Australia, 5081

The Foundation stone was laid on 13 April 1912 by Rev J J Nicholls, designed by Rev T Geddes White, and opened on 30 November 1912 as a Methodist church. First chapel was opened on 15 December 1844 as Wesleyan Methodist church and demolished when the new church was built in 1912.

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Warradale, SA - Uniting

Warradale, SA - Uniting

Address: Corner Diagonal & Oaklands Roads, , Warradale South Australia, 5046

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Wayville, SA - Christ Church Uniting

Wayville, SA - Christ Church Uniting

Address: King William Road, , Wayville South Australia, 534

The Christ Church Congregation began as the Unley Methodist Church.

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Weetulta, SA - Uniting

Weetulta, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1905

Address: Moonta--Maitland Road, , Weetulta South Australia, 5573

Formerly a Methodist church built between 1905 - 1906. The Foundation stone was laid on 1 November 1905 by H.R. Hancock Esq.

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West Hindmarsh, SA - Uniting

West Hindmarsh, SA - Uniting

The first move for the building of a Methodist Church was made by the Parkside Quarterly Meeting on June 26, 1901, when the Superintendent, Rev. J. Cowperthwaite, Circuit Stewards, Messrs. E.B. Colton and R.T. Burnard, and Messrs. Stoyel, Ding, Spencer, Hinsley and Cotton were appointed to report on extension of Methodism at Fullarton…

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West Lakes, SA - Uniting

West Lakes, SA - Uniting

Address: Bartley Terrace, , West Lakes South Australia, 5021

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Williamstown, SA - Uniting

Williamstown, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1860

Address: Church Street, , Williamstown South Australia, 3016

The Church (former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel) is a small random stone hall style church with a simple gable ended front porch and an extension to the end gable with a brick bell gablet. The church was constructed in 1860, opened on September 30 by the Reverend Bennett. The porch was added in 1894. The complex also includes a hall…

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Willunga, SA - Uniting

Willunga, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1896

Address: St Judes Street, , Willunga South Australia, 5172

Formerly a Wesleyan Methodist church. Willunga was the first country circuit for the large Wesleyan Church in South Australia. This is the fourth church built on this site. The first church was opened in 1844. A second larger church was built alongside it in 1848, later to become the Sunday School Hall, still in use. In 1856/57 a…

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Windsor Gardens, SA - Uniting

Windsor Gardens, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1965

Address: Pitman Road, , Windsor Gardens South Australia, 5087

A Foundation stone was laid on 4 July 1965 which read, "To the Glory of God this stone was laid by W.H. & B.C. Pitman Foundation members of the Gillies Plains Methodist Church Trust on 4th July 1965.

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Woodville, SA - Uniting

Woodville, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1884

Address: 44 Woodville Road, , Woodville South Australia, 5011

The Woodville Wesleyan Mission was organised in 1876 as part of the Port Adelaide Circuit. Services were initially held in the York (now Kilkenny) Rechabite Hall. Local landowner, Captain Henry Simpson, donated a portion of his land of Woodville Road so that a church could be built. The first church was constructed in 1877 using iron…

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Yankalilla, SA - Uniting

Yankalilla, SA - Uniting

Year Built: 1879

Address: 121 Main Road, , Yankalilla South Australia, 5203

The Southern Fleurieu Peninsula was first mapped by Europeans in 1802 with both Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders travelling the coastline. The French explorer Baudin named the Fleurieu Peninsula. Formerly a Methodist church it was established in 1879. The adjoining hall was opened in 1932. The Lutheran's also use this Church…

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Yelta, SA - Uniting

Yelta, SA - Uniting

Address: Kadina Street North, Yelta, Yelta South Australia, 5558

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