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Scots Church (other)
Scots Church may refer to: * Scots Church, Adelaide * Scots Church, Amsterdam * Scots Church, Cobh, Ireland * Scots' Church, Melbourne * Scots Church, Sydney * Scots Church at Rotterdam {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots Church, Adelaide
Scots Church is a stone Uniting Church building on the southwest corner of North Terrace and Pulteney Street in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It was one of the early churches built in the new city in 1850. It was built as the "Chalmers Free Church of Scotland". History A prominent group of immigrants to South Australia (which was only settled by Europeans from 1836) supported the Free Church of Scotland movement. This group called Reverend John Gardner from Scotland, and established Chalmers Free Church, named after Rev. Thomas Chalmers, the first moderator of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. Gardner arrived in the colony in March 1850. He immediately initiated buying the land on the corner of North Terrace and Pulteney Street from (later Sir) John Morphett, appointed English & Brown as architects and builders and laid the foundation stone on 3 September 1850. He held the first service in the new building on 6 July 1851. The cost of land and building w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots Church, Amsterdam
The English Reformed Church is one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, situated in the centre of the city. It is home to an English-speaking congregation which is affiliated to the Church of Scotland and to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (formerly Dutch Reformed Church). See also *List of Church of Scotland parishes The Church of Scotland, the national church of Scotland, divides the country into Presbyteries, which in turn are subdivided into Parishes, each served by a parish church, usually with its own minister. Unions and readjustments may however re ... * Dutch Church, Austin Friars of London, England References Further reading * External links English Reformed Church, Amsterdam * {{Authority control Church of Scotland churches Churches in Amsterdam Presbyterian churches in Europe Rijksmonuments in Amsterdam Reformed church buildings in the Netherlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots Church, Cobh
The Scots Church is a former Presbyterian church in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. It is today a museum, the Cobh Museum, which tells the history of the town. Architecture The building is in the "Hard" Gothic Revival style, with three-Bay (architecture), bay nave, single-bay vestry to east and a three-stage, stepped tower with an octagonal limestone spire with Corbel, consoles to the south elevation. It was designed by Henry Hill (Irish architect), Henry Hill. History Church The church was built in 1854. It closed in 1965, and was gifted to Cork County Library in 1973. Museum Cobh Museum opened in 1973. It tells the social and commercial history of Cove/Queenstown/Cobh, with a focus on maritime and military history. It contains artifacts from the RMS Lusitania, RMS ''Lusitania''. References {{Museums and galleries in the Republic of Ireland by province Presbyterian churches in the Republic of Ireland 19th-century Presbyterian churches Former Presbyterian churches Churches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots' Church, Melbourne
The Scots' Church is a Presbyterian church in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the first Presbyterian church to be built in the Port Phillip District (now the state of Victoria) and is located on Collins Street. It is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and has been described as "an icon for well over a hundred years". Background The Reverend James Forbes was recruited to come to Australia as a Presbyterian minister by the Revd John Dunmore Lang, arriving in Melbourne from Sydney via boat on 20 January 1838. He found that a retired Church of Scotland minister, the Revd James Clow, had arrived on 25 December 1837 and had commenced an afternoon service from 2 pm and 4 pm according to Presbyterian forms in a basic building constructed west of William Street and north of Little Collins Street (now the site of the AMP centre). Clow had been a Church of Scotland chaplain in Bombay, India but had retired and was of independent means. He had intended to settle i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots Church, Sydney
The Scots Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 42–44 Margaret Street on the corner of York Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Rosenthal, Rutledge & Beattie and built by Beat Bros in 1929. Since 2005, the 1929 building has supported a high rise apartment building on top of it, designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer. The 1929 building replaced an earlier 1824 church on an adjacent site - the first Presbyterian church in Sydney, founded by John Dunmore Lang - which was resumed and demolished for construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Wynyard railway station. History Old church (1826–1926) Scots Church is located in a part of the city known historically as Church Hill; an important place in Sydney's fabric from the foundation of European settlement. The colony's first church, St Philip's Anglican Church, was built on this hill in the 1790s. A Wesleyan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
