Trinity Church Adelaide
Holy Trinity Church was established in 1836, and has been of great significance from the days of the earliest settlers in the first city in South Australia.
[1] It is also historically significant in that it contains elements of the earliest surviving Anglican church building in South Australia.
Pascoe St Leger Grenfell, the holder of a preliminary land order, Raikes Currie and the Reverend Sir Henry Robert Dukinfield of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) who held the collective funds and, thirdly, the men to whom they were transferring their powers, namely James Hurtle Fisher, Osmond Gilles and Charles Mann.
The conveyance did not have to specify that Currie and Dukinfield hand over money and the portable church, but it may be presumed they did so — alternatively they may have entrusted these resources to John Morphett, appointed as SPG's attorney in the colony.
The building quickly became a landmark with its "peaked cap" top tower and the Vulliamy clock.
When Bishop Short arrived in 1847, Holy Trinity assumed many of the functions of a cathedral and was - until other congregations (especially Christ Church, North Adelaide) were established — the place of worship for the governors, many of the colony’s prominent families and the military.
[2] In 1878, there was a proposal to rebuild when some money was subscribed, but this did not take place until the congregation decided in the mid-1880s to completely rebuild the church to a design by the prominent architect Edward John Woods, using the mellow sandstone which eventually weathered to match the original limestone.
After a review was undertaken, a 10-year restoration project was begun on the church building, and parish hall, and car park in 2016, with financial support from Adelaide City Council.
The clock was made in 1836 for South Australia by Vulliamy, clockmaker to King William IV.
Historically very significant as it contains elements of the earliest surviving ecclesiastical building in South Australia.
