Adelaide History Tour - Flinders Street Baptist Church Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
By
ParisLaura on 31-Jul-18. Waypoint GA12588
Cache Details
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| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Micro |
| Coordinates: | S34° 55.656' E138° 36.216' (WGS 84) |
| 54H 281109E 6132364N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 46 m |
| Local Government Area: | Adelaide City |
| Tour: | Adelaide History Tour |
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Description
More History in the beautiful Adelaide!
In response to a call by George Fife Angus for a Baptist minister to found a new church in Adelaide, Rev. Silas Mead emigrated aboard Parisian, arriving in July 1861. He began taking regular services at White's Rooms and soon his enthusiastic congregation decided to build a large church on Acre 273 in Flinders Street on the west corner of Divett Place.
Robert G Thomas the architect who would later be responsible for the Stow Memorial Church (now Pilgrim Uniting Church), was selected to design the building, which is of Gothic revival style in bluestone and sandstone with elaborate capitals on the columns, a rose window and front entrance with three arches supported by pillars. Robert George Thomas was among the first colonists arriving in South Australia, he arrived in South Australia in 1836 and was 16 years old.
The building, which cost ₤7,000 and took English & Brown two years to build, was opened on 19 May 1863. The debt was cleared the following year, Mead Hall was erected in 1867–1870 and the Manse was built in 1877. The foundation stone was laid on 7 February 1865.
On 28 May 1981, it was listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.
Inside this church is a magnificent pipe organ, it is the largest organ of its kind in the state of South Australia.
This is a traditional cache, located in the city, please use stealth in the Area.
Please if you get a chance go to the front of the building and enjoy the spelendor of this piece of South Australian History
This geocache is one of the Adelaide History Tours listed in the city of Adelaide. The rest is a mixutre of traditional and virtual finds, if you wish to find more of this tour, please have a look at the information in the following link
Hints
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Logs
If the owner can confirm it is in place the listing can be resurrected by placing an "unarchived" log against it.
Unfortunately, the cache will be archived in 28 days if the listing is not re-enabled. This is done to keep the Geocaching Australia database clean and up to date.
We hope the cache can be re-enabled so that cachers can head to find the cache….and enjoy a visit to the area.
During this trip achieved 4x FTF's (GA), picked up a dozen moveables; plus the highlight being my D/T grid (GC) now filled after finding one up a tree.
Huge THANK YOU to local cachers: J&J, Laighside Legends, andrewbt, Atreyu1982, Blackadders, OzGrumpy, weredunn4 & Jacknor whom all contributed towards my success.
What an adventure, visiting: Adelaide CBD, Showground, Glenelg & Seacliff Holdfast Bay, McLaren Vale, Onkaparinga, Hawthorndene, Carrick Hill, Kensington Park, Teringie, Prospect, Elizabeth, Port Adelaide, Garden Island, Gawler, Nuriootpa Barrossa; and an impressive collection of planes at Greenock Aviation Museum!
Thanks
Albida
Stopped past here for a quick find after today's event. More interesting history!
TFTC
We enjoyed the walk down this lane, a section of Adelaide that we had not taken much notice of. The church is dwarfed by some of the taller buildings crowding around it. It is certainly a beautifully constructed building. Our GPS was very unstable fluctuating between 16m and 2m away. However the clue proved most helpful. We found the well hidden container and were delighted to open a blank log giving us a {FTF} at 12:15
Thanks for this cache in your Adelaide History Series ParisLaura. It id definitely deserving of a place as part of the tour.
