St Luke Anglican Church
Adelaida, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
The erection of St Luke's Church was based on similar circumstances to Holy Trinity as both churches were initially proposed to be built of prefabricated materials. The need for immediate accommodation was pressing, given the expansion of Anglicanism in the city. In neither case was the prefabricated church fully erected, although some of the imported materials were incorporated into the earliest parts of them. Prefabrication was important to the expansion and consolidation of British colonial outposts and St Luke's, although a late example of prefabricated building construction, is historically significant as it represents this important tool of colonisation used by the Anglican Church. The need for a church in the south-western corner of the city was recognised by 1853. During Reverend James Pollitt's term it was decided to erect a church to seat 450 persons on the present site which was provided by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Bishop of Adelaide, Dr Short, then in England, purchased an iron church on behalf of the Building Committee. However, when the committee was notified that the cost would be £2000 it was decided to erect a cheaper stone structure designed by Edmund Wright. In the meantime, however, the bishop had ordered an iron church to be fabricated and forwarded to South Australia. In September 1854 it was stated that an iron church '. . . expected soon to arrive' had been purchased for £750 which, with the cost of erection and other disbursements, would effectively double that figure.
St Luke's Church served a parish that was mainly residential and working class. In the 1920s and 1930s when the economic depression created much hardship the church involved itself in local missionary work, as did St. Mary Magdalene's Church on the western fringes of the Young Ward which was built as a mission church. Mission work at St Luke's continued after the Depression in the form of various social services. One of the early services was the setting up of Grey Ward Boys' Institute by the Reverend DJ. Knox. Now privately owned, the former rectory has been a night shelter for homeless youths for ten years and is shortly to become a boarding house.
St Luke Anglican Church
Adelaida, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
The erection of St Luke's Church was based on similar circumstances to Holy Trinity as both churches were initially proposed to be built of prefabricated materials. The need for immediate accommodation was pressing, given the expansion of Anglicanism in the city. In neither case was the prefabricated church fully erected, although some of the imported materials were incorporated into the earliest parts of them. Prefabrication was important to the expansion and consolidation of British colonial outposts and St Luke's, although a late example of prefabricated building construction, is historically significant as it represents this important tool of colonisation used by the Anglican Church. The need for a church in the south-western corner of the city was recognised by 1853. During Reverend James Pollitt's term it was decided to erect a church to seat 450 persons on the present site which was provided by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Bishop of Adelaide, Dr Short, then in England, purchased an iron church on behalf of the Building Committee. However, when the committee was notified that the cost would be £2000 it was decided to erect a cheaper stone structure designed by Edmund Wright. In the meantime, however, the bishop had ordered an iron church to be fabricated and forwarded to South Australia. In September 1854 it was stated that an iron church '. . . expected soon to arrive' had been purchased for £750 which, with the cost of erection and other disbursements, would effectively double that figure.
St Luke's Church served a parish that was mainly residential and working class. In the 1920s and 1930s when the economic depression created much hardship the church involved itself in local missionary work, as did St. Mary Magdalene's Church on the western fringes of the Young Ward which was built as a mission church. Mission work at St Luke's continued after the Depression in the form of various social services. One of the early services was the setting up of Grey Ward Boys' Institute by the Reverend DJ. Knox. Now privately owned, the former rectory has been a night shelter for homeless youths for ten years and is shortly to become a boarding house.