Stained glass window in memory of Whyte family members in Minlaton's Roman Catholic Church of St Malachy, Yorke Peninsula South Australia
In memory of Michael James, Mary Ann, Patrick Peter, and Catherine Honer Whyte RIP.
Presented by James and Mary Whyte.
The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Catholic Church of St Malachy was performed at Minlaton on Sunday afternoon last by the Rev Gabriel O'Farrell, OP, North Adelaide, assisted by Rev J D Murphy.
The contractor had made such rapid progress that the walls of the main building were up the full height of the eaves, and those of the porch about 3 ft high. The carpenters are at present busy putting the timbers on the roof.
The church is designed in Gothic of the early English period, modernised in conformity with local conditions, and will be finished in ecclesiastic rustic treatment, the walling being executed in local stone, relieved with struck and jointed brick dressings, cement mouldings, and deep rough-cast frieze, with battered plinth in the same material. The nave is 46 ft in length and 26 ft wide in the clear, with a maximum height of 24 ft to the ceiling, the principals exposed, and ceiling lined with red pine boarding, finished against the walls with bold cornice. A large arch is formed at the end, enclosed with temporary wall for the addition of a sanctuary at some future time. The Sacristy is 11 ft square, buttressed, and designed with the object of forming a component part of the future sanctuary.
The front gable is buttressed and corbeled, designed with dual decorated windows, the entrance porch being 9 ft 6 in x 8 ft, rising in gable form, surmounted with cross, and finished with triple window. The side windows of church will be glazed in leaded lights, serving as memorials to the different members of the congregation who have generously contributed to their cost, the remaining windows being treated in plain cathedral glass.
Mr Albert S Conrad is the architect for the work, and Mr R A Heath, of Wallaroo, the successful contractor. [Ref: Southern Cross Friday 20-10-1905]
THE OPENING CEREMONY.
On Sunday February 11 the new church of St Malachy, Minlaton, was solemnly blessed by the Very Rev Father O'Farrell, OP, of North Adelaide.
Long before 11 o'clock—the hour fixed for the ceremony—vehicles of all sizes, of all descriptions, and from all parts of the Peninsula, from Edithburg and Yorketown in the south to Maitland and Arthurton in the north, from Warooka in the west to Stansbury on the east, came rolling into Minlaton.
The new church, which is a beautiful structure, is well placed on the rising ground of a fine corner allotment at the eastern approach to the town and forms an interesting and conspicuous feature.
The windows throughout have been artistically glazed by Mr E F Troy in leaded lights, serving as memorials to different members of the congregation.
A concert was held in the institute hall on the following Tuesday evening in aid of the debt on the church. [Ref: Southern Cross Friday 23-2-1906]
Stained glass window in memory of Whyte family members in Minlaton's Roman Catholic Church of St Malachy, Yorke Peninsula South Australia
In memory of Michael James, Mary Ann, Patrick Peter, and Catherine Honer Whyte RIP.
Presented by James and Mary Whyte.
The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Catholic Church of St Malachy was performed at Minlaton on Sunday afternoon last by the Rev Gabriel O'Farrell, OP, North Adelaide, assisted by Rev J D Murphy.
The contractor had made such rapid progress that the walls of the main building were up the full height of the eaves, and those of the porch about 3 ft high. The carpenters are at present busy putting the timbers on the roof.
The church is designed in Gothic of the early English period, modernised in conformity with local conditions, and will be finished in ecclesiastic rustic treatment, the walling being executed in local stone, relieved with struck and jointed brick dressings, cement mouldings, and deep rough-cast frieze, with battered plinth in the same material. The nave is 46 ft in length and 26 ft wide in the clear, with a maximum height of 24 ft to the ceiling, the principals exposed, and ceiling lined with red pine boarding, finished against the walls with bold cornice. A large arch is formed at the end, enclosed with temporary wall for the addition of a sanctuary at some future time. The Sacristy is 11 ft square, buttressed, and designed with the object of forming a component part of the future sanctuary.
The front gable is buttressed and corbeled, designed with dual decorated windows, the entrance porch being 9 ft 6 in x 8 ft, rising in gable form, surmounted with cross, and finished with triple window. The side windows of church will be glazed in leaded lights, serving as memorials to the different members of the congregation who have generously contributed to their cost, the remaining windows being treated in plain cathedral glass.
Mr Albert S Conrad is the architect for the work, and Mr R A Heath, of Wallaroo, the successful contractor. [Ref: Southern Cross Friday 20-10-1905]
THE OPENING CEREMONY.
On Sunday February 11 the new church of St Malachy, Minlaton, was solemnly blessed by the Very Rev Father O'Farrell, OP, of North Adelaide.
Long before 11 o'clock—the hour fixed for the ceremony—vehicles of all sizes, of all descriptions, and from all parts of the Peninsula, from Edithburg and Yorketown in the south to Maitland and Arthurton in the north, from Warooka in the west to Stansbury on the east, came rolling into Minlaton.
The new church, which is a beautiful structure, is well placed on the rising ground of a fine corner allotment at the eastern approach to the town and forms an interesting and conspicuous feature.
The windows throughout have been artistically glazed by Mr E F Troy in leaded lights, serving as memorials to different members of the congregation.
A concert was held in the institute hall on the following Tuesday evening in aid of the debt on the church. [Ref: Southern Cross Friday 23-2-1906]