Brougham Place Uniting Church

Brougham Place Uniting Church is a Uniting church located at Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia.

Brougham Place Uniting Church
Main entrance of Brougham Place Uniting Church, 2004
34°54′34″S 138°36′1″E
Location	Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia
Country	Australia
Denomination	Uniting (since 1977)
Previous denomination	Congregational (1859 – 1977)
Website	bpuc.org
History
Former name(s)	North Adelaide Congregational Church
Status	Church
Founded	20 October 1859 (1859-10-20)
Founder(s)	Rev. James Jefferis
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Edmund Wright E. A. Hamilton Thomas Frost (tower and hall)
Architectural type	Church
Style	Victorian Free Classical
Groundbreaking	15 May 1860
Completed	14 July 1872
Construction cost	c. A£11,000
Administration
Synod	South Australia
Presbytery	Wimala
Parish	Brougham Place
Clergy
Minister(s)	Rev. Linda Driver

History

Edmund Wright won an architectural competition for the design of the church in 1859, then Brougham Place Congregational Church.^[1] The foundation stone was laid on 15 May 1860.^[2]

A tower was added in 1871 and a lecture hall in 1878, designed by architect Thomas Frost.^[3] The pipe organ was built in 1881 at which time it was "the largest two manual organ in the colony", and restored in 1914.^[4]

The church was at one time referred to as Jefferis' Church^[5] for James Jefferis, the first pastor, who served from its inception on 20 October 1859,^[6] when services were held in the temperance hall in Tynte Street, North Adelaide, to 1877, then from 1895 to 1901, when he retired.^[7]

It looks over Brougham Gardens in the Adelaide Parklands.