Aldgate. A fine stone Wesleyan Methodist church designed by Adelaide architect Daniel Garlick. Opened in 1884. Closed and sold by the Uniting Church in 1984.
Daniel Garlick was born at Uley in England in 1818 and arrived in SA with his parents in 1837. His father Moses Garlick established a timber and building business in North Adelaide in 1841 and a few years later took up farming land at Smithfield where he had the Uleybury Baptist church erected in 1851 at his own cost. His son Daniel designed the church. The timber yard in North Adelaide at 43 Kermode Street later became the home of Daniel Garlick who lived there for most of his life. It is now the car park opposite the Children’s Hospital. When his father acquired the Smithfield farm Daniel Garlick opened architectural offices in Gawler in the early 1850s and practised there for some years before moving back to the city. For most of this life he practised from the Register Chambers (linked to the Register newspaper) in Grenfell Street. Garlick was a friend of one of the proprietors of the Register, Thomas Magarey so consequently Garlick designed Magarey’s home at 84 Mills Terrace North Adelaide. (Magarey was a fascinating character - a flour miller, politician, pastoralist, businessman and newspaper proprietor. He was a philosopher hence the newspaper interests. He founded the Church of Christ in Australia and it was his great nephew who received the first Magarey football medal in 1897.)
Garlick was also a land agent. He practised right up to his death at the age of 84 years in 1902. He died after falling in the street outside of his home as he tried to help an injured child in the street. He married first in 1862 and again in 1877 after his first wife died. His practice had several partners over the years including one of his sons who joined the business in 1882. Arthur Garlick mainly ran the Broken Hill office of Garlick and Sons. That son (and later just his name) was used in the Jackman and Garlick practice which operated as such until 1936. Garlick was raised as a Baptist, did a lot of architectural work for the three Methodist churches as well as other churches but converted to Anglicanism and attended Christ Church North Adelaide.
Daniel Garlick was a major architect responsible for much of the building of the city of Adelaide. He worked for almost 50 years as a professional architect yet he is not well known. Some sources ascribe buildings that he designed to other architects. He was unpopular in his day with the leading architect of the state who was Edmund Wright. They disagreed about additions to the Adelaide Town Hall in 1869 and the conflict between the two continued after that. Despite this Garlick attended Wright’s funeral, as any respectable 19th century gentleman would have when Wright died in 1888. Garlick began an architectural practice around 1851 in Gawler. Although he had commissions all over SA (and QLD and NT) much of his work was commercially based in Rundle, Grenfell, Currie, Hindley and King William streets. Consequently many of his finest buildings have been demolished. From a casual investigation of the tenders and contracts section of the Register newspaper, which was far from complete, Garlick erected or did major alterations to around 200 city CBD buildings. Perhaps only a third of them remain. Garlick is also important as he was a founding member of the SA Institute of Architects in 1886 but he had also tried to establish the SA Society of Architects, Engineers and Surveyors back in 1858. That organisation dissolved itself in 1861. Garlick was always a concerned community man and operator and he served a term as a city Councillor. He is also significant because he designed such a variety of structures. Commercially he designed shops, offices or chambers, banks, hotels, warehouses, factories and breweries. He undertook and designed deep drainage works for the City of Adelaide, as well as bridges and culverts. Domestically he designed grand mansions with their gatehouses, terraces rows, villa houses, and even cottages and almshouses. On a community level he designed many churches, private schools, institutes and halls. He built in different styles but he was certainly a master of the Victorian Free Classical style which meant his buildings had classical symmetry and features such as pillars, pilasters, roof pediments and balustrades, much decoration and embellishment around windows and doors. He sometimes added glamorous towers and cupolas to grand structures. He did Gothic and Romanesque style churches and Italianate style mansions for the wealthy. He also laid out the suburb of Hawthorn and it street plans with Edward Thornber in 1880. In 1882 Daniel Garlick was also one of three men selected by the SA Parliament to examine the marble discovery at Kapunda to see if it was suitable for use in building the new SA Parliament House which was started in 1883. He used leading city builders for many of his most important city structures such as Charles Farr. Other architects of his day were: McMinn, Hamilton, Edmund Wright, Roland Reece, John Haslam, Thomas Parker, F Dancker, Cumming and Davies, etc.
Aldgate. A fine stone Wesleyan Methodist church designed by Adelaide architect Daniel Garlick. Opened in 1884. Closed and sold by the Uniting Church in 1984.
Daniel Garlick was born at Uley in England in 1818 and arrived in SA with his parents in 1837. His father Moses Garlick established a timber and building business in North Adelaide in 1841 and a few years later took up farming land at Smithfield where he had the Uleybury Baptist church erected in 1851 at his own cost. His son Daniel designed the church. The timber yard in North Adelaide at 43 Kermode Street later became the home of Daniel Garlick who lived there for most of his life. It is now the car park opposite the Children’s Hospital. When his father acquired the Smithfield farm Daniel Garlick opened architectural offices in Gawler in the early 1850s and practised there for some years before moving back to the city. For most of this life he practised from the Register Chambers (linked to the Register newspaper) in Grenfell Street. Garlick was a friend of one of the proprietors of the Register, Thomas Magarey so consequently Garlick designed Magarey’s home at 84 Mills Terrace North Adelaide. (Magarey was a fascinating character - a flour miller, politician, pastoralist, businessman and newspaper proprietor. He was a philosopher hence the newspaper interests. He founded the Church of Christ in Australia and it was his great nephew who received the first Magarey football medal in 1897.)
Garlick was also a land agent. He practised right up to his death at the age of 84 years in 1902. He died after falling in the street outside of his home as he tried to help an injured child in the street. He married first in 1862 and again in 1877 after his first wife died. His practice had several partners over the years including one of his sons who joined the business in 1882. Arthur Garlick mainly ran the Broken Hill office of Garlick and Sons. That son (and later just his name) was used in the Jackman and Garlick practice which operated as such until 1936. Garlick was raised as a Baptist, did a lot of architectural work for the three Methodist churches as well as other churches but converted to Anglicanism and attended Christ Church North Adelaide.
Daniel Garlick was a major architect responsible for much of the building of the city of Adelaide. He worked for almost 50 years as a professional architect yet he is not well known. Some sources ascribe buildings that he designed to other architects. He was unpopular in his day with the leading architect of the state who was Edmund Wright. They disagreed about additions to the Adelaide Town Hall in 1869 and the conflict between the two continued after that. Despite this Garlick attended Wright’s funeral, as any respectable 19th century gentleman would have when Wright died in 1888. Garlick began an architectural practice around 1851 in Gawler. Although he had commissions all over SA (and QLD and NT) much of his work was commercially based in Rundle, Grenfell, Currie, Hindley and King William streets. Consequently many of his finest buildings have been demolished. From a casual investigation of the tenders and contracts section of the Register newspaper, which was far from complete, Garlick erected or did major alterations to around 200 city CBD buildings. Perhaps only a third of them remain. Garlick is also important as he was a founding member of the SA Institute of Architects in 1886 but he had also tried to establish the SA Society of Architects, Engineers and Surveyors back in 1858. That organisation dissolved itself in 1861. Garlick was always a concerned community man and operator and he served a term as a city Councillor. He is also significant because he designed such a variety of structures. Commercially he designed shops, offices or chambers, banks, hotels, warehouses, factories and breweries. He undertook and designed deep drainage works for the City of Adelaide, as well as bridges and culverts. Domestically he designed grand mansions with their gatehouses, terraces rows, villa houses, and even cottages and almshouses. On a community level he designed many churches, private schools, institutes and halls. He built in different styles but he was certainly a master of the Victorian Free Classical style which meant his buildings had classical symmetry and features such as pillars, pilasters, roof pediments and balustrades, much decoration and embellishment around windows and doors. He sometimes added glamorous towers and cupolas to grand structures. He did Gothic and Romanesque style churches and Italianate style mansions for the wealthy. He also laid out the suburb of Hawthorn and it street plans with Edward Thornber in 1880. In 1882 Daniel Garlick was also one of three men selected by the SA Parliament to examine the marble discovery at Kapunda to see if it was suitable for use in building the new SA Parliament House which was started in 1883. He used leading city builders for many of his most important city structures such as Charles Farr. Other architects of his day were: McMinn, Hamilton, Edmund Wright, Roland Reece, John Haslam, Thomas Parker, F Dancker, Cumming and Davies, etc.