Christ Church, North Adelaide is an

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on Acre 745 which lays between Jeffcott Street and 36-40 Palmer Place, ,

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, Australia. The foundation stone was laid on 1 June 1848 by

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, the first Bishop of Adelaide; and the church was consecrated in 1849. Christ Church was the

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until 1877 when St Peter's Cathedral opened. In 1850 a parsonage was built on the southern half of Acre 745. It became the deanery for Dean Marryat in 1887, then a rectory from 1906. In 1868 a site on Jeffcott Street opposite the church was purchased for a schoolroom. The foundation stone was laid on 26 September.

The building

The church building is in the

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architectural style and was built under the direction of architects Henry Stuckey and William Weir. It is built of local

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mined from Palmer Place, with

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from Willunga. In 1855 the

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was extended on the western side by some . The church, rectory and hall are all heritage listed with the former two appearing on the

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and the latter appearing on a 'local' list maintained by the

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Organ

The church's first instrument was a

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, replaced in 1854 by the

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from J. B. Graham's mansion Prospect House ("Graham's Castle"), and opened by George Bennett, one of his last performances. The new acquisition was heavily criticised, then refurbished and greatly enlarged the following year. It still had faults: it was so badly affected by weather that in winter it took six kerosene lamps burning for an hour before it would play. A new organ was purchased from Augustus Gurm of London and the old one bought by organist James Shakespeare. It was later installed in the Norwood Baptist Church where it served until replaced by J. E. Dodd in 1884.

Liturgy

Worship in the church follows the

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People

Priests: * John Woodcock (1849–1868) *

Charles Marryat Charles Marryat (26 June 1827 – 29 September 1906) was the Dean of Adelaide from 1887 until his death. Early life Marryat was born in London on 26 June 1827, the son of a former slaveholder in the British West Indies, Charles Marryat Sr. of ...

(1868–1906) * George Jose (1907–1933) *

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(1933–1938) * Arthur Leslie Bulbeck (1938–1957) * George Benjamin McWilliams (1957–1965) * Richard Mellon Southey (1966–1973) * Alexander Russell Cameron (1973–1990) * John Paul Collas (1991–2002) * Simon Bailey (2003–2007) * Lyndon Brad Sulzberger (2007–2012) * Keith Patrick Brice (2013-2020) * Stephen James Bloor (2021-) Others * James Pollitt * Henry Sparks * W. A. Hughes * Canon Wise (curate 1895–1897)

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