C. W. Evan

C. W. Evan, was a Congregationalist minister in colonial South Australia, the first to serve at the Stow Memorial Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide.

In 1855 he was serving as pastor for the Independent Church at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, when he was approached by the Revs.

Thomas Binney and George Smith, who had been charged by the Congregational church of Freeman Street, Adelaide, with recruiting a young minister to act as coadjutor (assistant) to the aged and ailing Rev.

[2] He arrived on the James Baines on 27 October 1855, and preached his first sermons at the Freeman Street chapel on 4 November 1855.

Evan was involved in the planning and erection of the Stow Memorial Church as a replacement for the Freeman Street chapel,[3] which began in mid-1863, and opened in April 1867.