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St Paul's Church, Adelaide

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Paul's church membership continued to decline through the twentieth century. Sometime in the mid-1970s, St Paul's building was deconsecrated and in the early 1980s was turned into a nightclub or disco. In 1989 the Moore Corporation applied to the Council for permission to demolish the structure but were refused on the grounds that, though not protected by statute, the proposed development would detract from the
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streets in May 1848. Though sponsored by the Church of England, it accepted pupils from all denominations, and its fees were modest as compared with the Collegiate School. Three months later, 81 students (boys and girls) were enrolled and the teaching staff numbered five ladies and four gentlemen. In
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Attendance at the church dropped significantly during the Great War, largely due to the number of men who served overseas, but that doesn't entirely explain the reduction of the number of male worshippers dropping from hundreds to around five. The city was declining as a residential district, and St
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and his family, Sir James Ferguson and Lady Edith Ferguson (who occasionally presided on the organ), Judge Cooper and Lady Cooper, Judge Boothby, Captain Watts (Postmaster-General) and O. K. Richardson (Under Secretary). Ada Ayers, widow of Harry Lockett Ayers, commissioned a pair of stained glass
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adjacent which was heritage-listed. In 1991 the church was placed on the City of Adelaide heritage register. For several years the state government leased the building from its owners for use as a music and arts hub.
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The Pulteney Street School opened in a newly erected 60 by 30 feet (18.3 by 9.1 m) Gothic building on the northern half of town acre 228 at the northeast corner of the intersection of
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J. W. Owen 1886–1890, previously at Mount Barker. Canon Samuel Green of St Paul's, Port Adelaide was offered the position but declined. Owen resigned in 1890.
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Arthur Edwards Kain 1943– , previously organising chaplain of the Bishop's Home Mission Society in the diocese of Adelaide. He was canonized around 1948.
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1860–1886, previously at St John's, Adelaide. He continued there after 1869, when he was appointed Dean of Adelaide, until his death in 1886.
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at the intersection of Pulteney and Flinders streets. On 15 April 1856 the foundation stone of a church, adjacent to the school, was laid by
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was an Anglican church on Pulteney Street, Adelaide, on the northeast corner of Pulteney and Flinders streets. It was built adjacent to the
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St Paul's was, for reasons not fully explained, Adelaide's most popular Anglican church for weddings. Notable parishioners included
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style, and William Bundy the builder. Construction proceeded as funds became available, commencing with £200 from "Captain"
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The school had also been known by that name, during the headmastership of W. H. Howard, later Canon Howard.
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Sunday School, then in 1921 the school moved to a Anglican church-owned site on
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Edward Herbert Bleby 1910–1943, previously rector of Melrose, died January 1943
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The "Tiffany Windows" were removed for safekeeping, and later installed in the
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Another reference, not supported by contemporary newspapers, credits
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1890–1909, previously at St Anthony's Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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1901–1918; in 1921 moving to the new school on South Terrace.
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19th-century Anglican church buildings in Australia
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Moore. 580:"Rector Of St. Paul's Inducted" 188:Pulteney Street Central Schools 202:Headmasters at Pulteney Street 173:Pulteney Street School c. 1919 125:Art Gallery of South Australia 1: 799:corporal punishment condoned. 366:"Laying the Foundation-Stone" 186:1852 the school was renamed 71:, the Bishop of Sydney, and 859:Former churches in Adelaide 726:"Pulteney School Centenary" 131:Rectors of St Paul's Church 895: 815:Evening Journal (Adelaide) 637:"Education for the People" 162: 786:South Australian Register 730:The Advertiser (Adelaide) 703:South Australian Register 670:The Advertiser (Adelaide) 613:South Australian Register 585:The Advertiser (Adelaide) 452:South Australian Register 424:South Australian Register 371:South Australian Register 23:, predecessor of today's 732:. 26 May 1948. p. 2 39:St Paul's Church c. 1927 511:The Register (Adelaide) 228:August 1861 – June 1884 165:Pulteney Grammar School 25:Pulteney Grammar School 757:The Christian Colonist 698:"Jubilee of St Paul's" 174: 159:Pulteney Street School 130: 49:Pulteney Street School 40: 21:Pulteney Street School 752:"Our Adelaide Letter" 238:Donald Alexander Kerr 172: 109:Louis Comfort Tiffany 38: 844:Churches in Adelaide 642:The South Australian 478:"Historic St Paul's" 246:a few months in 1901 244:John Benbow (priest) 226:William Samuel Moore 61:Early English Gothic 810:"Concerning People" 483:The News (Adelaide) 396:Sharon Ann Mosler. 232:Walter Henry Howard 53:Governor MacDonnell 740:– via Trove. 665:"St Paul's School" 556:Louis C. 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Index

Pulteney Grammar School

A. R. Russell
Pulteney Street School
Governor MacDonnell
Edmund W. Wright
Early English Gothic
William Allen
Frederic Barker
Augustus Short
James Farrell
Farr
St Peter's College
John Cox Bray
Henry Ayers
Louis Comfort Tiffany
manse
Art Gallery of South Australia
A. R. Russell
James Sunter
Pulteney Grammar School

Pulteney
Flinders
Hindmarsh Square Congregational Church
South Terrace
Edmund King Miller
W. A. Cawthorne
R. C. Mitton
William Samuel Moore

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