Friends Meeting House, Adelaide
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The Adelaide meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") is situated on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, literally in the shadow of St Peters Cathedral
, on its west side. It is substantially made of timber, the only such church building in the City. Besides Sunday meetings, weddings and the like, it has also hosted secular meetings, particularly for peace, education, temperance and other social causes.
The land on which it stands was donated to the Society of Friends by church member J. Barton Hack. He also had the contract for construction of the prefabricated building, supplied by H. Manning of London around 1840.
Despite a prohibition on churchyard burials in the City of Adelaide, there were around seventeen graves in its tiny yard, including that of J. B. Hack's child. From 1858 no further burials took place there, as a separate area had been reserved for Quakers at the West Terrace Cemetery
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St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide
St Peter's Cathedral is an Anglican Cathedral in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the seat of the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide...
, on its west side. It is substantially made of timber, the only such church building in the City. Besides Sunday meetings, weddings and the like, it has also hosted secular meetings, particularly for peace, education, temperance and other social causes.
The land on which it stands was donated to the Society of Friends by church member J. Barton Hack. He also had the contract for construction of the prefabricated building, supplied by H. Manning of London around 1840.
Despite a prohibition on churchyard burials in the City of Adelaide, there were around seventeen graves in its tiny yard, including that of J. B. Hack's child. From 1858 no further burials took place there, as a separate area had been reserved for Quakers at the West Terrace Cemetery
West Terrace Cemetery
The West Terrace Cemetery is South Australia’s oldest cemetery, first appearing on Colonel William Light’s 1837 plan of Adelaide. The 27.6 hectare site is located in the south-west corner of the Adelaide central business district, between West Terrace, Anzac Highway, Sir Donald Bradman Drive and...
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Further reading
- Goldney, F. H. The Quaker Meeting House, North Adelaide, Pioneers Association of South Australia, 1968
External links
- SA Memory > Buildings: Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) Meeting House Retrieved 8 September 2011
- History SA > About Time > Visit Adelaide's Quaker Meeting House Retrieved 8 September 2011
- Quakers in South Australia > Meetings for worship > Adelaide local meeting Retrieved 8 September 2011
- Channel 9 South Australia Pty Ltd > Postcards > Friend's Meeting House Retrieved 8 September 2011