Arthurton Yorke Peninsula. St Agathas Catholic Church opened in 1893. St Agathas Catholic cemetery is visible behind the church. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Arthurton Yorke Peninsula. St Agathas Catholic Church opened in 1893. St Agathas Catholic cemetery is visible behind the church. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Arthurton. This highest point on Yorke Peninsula, about 250 metres high. The district was surveyed for farming in 1876 and the town of Kalkabury was created in 1876. But before settlers could move into the town the SA Governor of the day Sir Anthony Musgrave (1873-1877) insisted on renaming the place Arthurton after his infant son Arthur. Despite this early name change the timber framed school here opened as Kalkabury School in 1879 with 20 pupils. It was located across the street from the Catholic Church. This wooden school burnt down in 1929 and was replaced that same year with a new stone school which closed in 1988. Now only the school fence remains with a memorial plaque in front of it and the old 1929 school room is being used as a residence. . The town’s claim to fame soon emerged as the Smith brothers, who invented the stump jump plough, lived near Arthurton although they set up their agricultural implements factory further away in Ardrossan which was a much bigger town and a port. Arthurton soon had a number of public buildings which still remain although the town is now in decline. The first was the Arthurton Hotel built in 1877 with the first licensee being Richard Smith one of the inventors of the stump jump plough of 1876. It was first exhibited at the Moonta Agricultural Show. The old hotel is still trading and the second public building of Arthurton was the early Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1876. In 1895 this pug and pine church was rebuilt in limestone with a big nave and it is still holding services as a Uniting Church. There are churches on either side of this church. One is the impressive St Agatha’s Catholic Church which was opened by the Catholic Bishop in 1893. The Catholic Church had purchased a block of land in Arthurton in 1886 but it took some years to raise the funds for the erection of the church. The Kenny family were great sponsors of the Catholic Church in Arthurton but the ones who also donated money were the devout, but childless, John and Mary Fennescey. They attended church here every Sunday. After they made their money from farming and investing Fennesceys funded Catholic Church activities such as orphanages, Fennescey House in the Diocese Offices in Adelaide, the Catholic Church at Glenelg which is often described as the grandest Catholic Church built in SA in the 20th century etc. They donated to Aquinas University College, they enabled the completion of St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Cathedral, and they helped the Carmelite Nuns at Glen Osmond, Calvary Hospital at North Adelaide and the Catholic seminary at Rostrevor. On the other side of the former Methodist church is a small galvanised iron church with a faux stone pattern. It was operating as a Lutheran Church from 1927, as many of the town’s early settlers were of German descent. It closed as a church in 1971 and is now a private residence. The other outstanding building of Arthurton is the Soldiers Memorial Chambers built in 1927 to remember the soldiers of World War One. There had been talk of erecting a public hall in Arthurton as early as 1902 as a memorial to the Smith brothers but that never eventuated. At that time Clarence Smith, brother to Richard Smith had just died the year before. The hall was known as the Chambers because the District Council of Clinton used it as their council chambers from its opening. There is also a fine War Memorial Arch at the Arthurton oval. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-08-23 15:17:22 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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