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33 unusual facts about St Andrew


Frank Swindell

In 1910 he married Gladys Dorothy Wells at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, the service was conducted by the Right Reverend Charles James Ferguson-Davie the Bishop of Singapore.

Frederick Darwent

He was made a Canon of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen in 1971; and was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1973 to 1978.

Glenn Kable

The University of Sydney, residing at St Andrew's College, where he studied Law.

Handel Manuel

He also served for over 50 years as the organist and choirmaster at St Andrew's Church, Chennai (known as The Kirk) and was the founder director of the Madras Philharmonic and Choral Society.

St Andrew's Church, Burnham-on-Sea

Between 1305 and 1314 the original church was either replaced or enhanced; the parts of that church that still stand are the south transept, the south door arch, the holy water stoop and the consecration cross.

St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove

Sir George Everest, the geographer who undertook the Great Trigonometric Survey in India while acting as Surveyor-General, was the first person to determine the exact height of the world's highest mountain, which was then named after him.

Charlotte Elliott, the hymn writer, and her brothers Rev. Henry Venn Elliott and Rev. Edward Bishop Elliott (associated with the curacies of St Mary the Virgin Church and St Mark's Church respectively) are all buried there.

St Andrew's Church, Dent

The stained glass in the east window depicts the Te Deum.

St Andrew's Church, Farnham

Outside the church entrance is the grave of the political reformer William Cobbett (1763–1835).

St Andrew's Church, Handsworth

The church was dedicated in 1910 and it was consecrated in 1914 when a parish was assigned from St Mary’s, Handsworth and St James’s, Handsworth.

St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem

The foundation stone was laid by Field Marshal Lord Allenby on 7 May 1927 and the church was opened in 1930 with Ninian Hill as its first minister.

St Andrew's Church, Penrith

The brass chandeliers were given to the church in 1745 by the 2nd Duke of Portland in recognition of the part the town played in the defence against the Young Pretender.

St Andrew's Church, Redbourne

On the north side of the chancel is a memorial to the 9th Duke of St Albans who died in 1851 by J. G. Lough, and to his wife, Harriet, who died in 1837, by Chantrey, and a memorial to Charlotte, Lady Beauclerk, dating from about 1825.

St Andrew's Church, Sedbergh

A new pulpit, altar and altar rails were added, which were made by Gillow.

St Andrew's Church, Sonning

Also adjoining the churchyard is Deanery Gardens, an early 20th-century Edwin Lutyens house with a Gertrude Jekyll garden, well hidden by high walls apart from a good view from the top of the church tower.

Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley KBE CStJ FRACP FRCP FRCPE FRS (1891–1966), Australian physician and soldier

St Andrew's Church, Tangmere

An RAF World War II Ace, he was the holder of the Flight airspeed record, set in a Gloster Meteor in 1946 which took off and landed from RAF Tangmere.

From 1917, a field directly adjacent to the church was the basis for a Royal Flying Corps base, extended into a Royal Air Force aerodrome.

St Andrew's Church, West Tarring

Smuggling was popular in the Worthing area between the early 18th and early 19th centuries — sometimes out of necessity, such as during a period of economic hardship in the 1820s which caused the developing town to stagnate.

Founded in the 11th century in a then rural parish which had earlier been granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the church remained a peculier of Canterbury

St Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin

Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880), a noted physician, is buried in the crypt of the church.

St Andrew's Church, Woodwalton

After being declared redundant, the church was used as a major location in the 1984 TV film "And the Wall Came Tumbling Down", an episode of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (known as Fox Mystery Theater in the U.S.).

St Andrew's College, University of Sydney

Every year, the College men compete for a sporting trophy, commonly known as the Rawson Cup, which was presented to the Sydney University Sports Union in 1906 by Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, and is the height of male intercollegiate sport.

St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot

During the 1920s Sir Robert Lorimer designed a number of war memorials, including the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle.

"This church was built to the glory of God in thankful remembrance of the soldiers of the Church of Scotland and kindred churches throughout the empire who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918."

John F. Matthew, the architectural partner of the by now deceased Sir Robert Lorimer, was commissioned to do the design work.

However, due to cost constraints the nave was initially built slightly shorter than Lorimer had originally planned.

This involved extending the nave by 30 feet, similar to what Lorimer had originally intended in 1926 and reducing the height of the bell tower.

St Andrew's Hospital

Thomas Octavius Prichard was appointed as the hospital’s first medical superintendent: he was one of the pioneers of "moral management", the humane treatment of the mentally ill.

St Andrew's House

Tait's design incorporates elements of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne and is noted for being a rare example of sensitively designed modern architecture in Edinburgh.

The large, Category A listed, Art Deco-influenced building looks out over Waverley station, the Canongate and Holyrood Park.

St Andrew's School, Pangbourne

Will Lyons (born 1976), journalist, broadcaster and wine writer

Violet Gibson

She spent the rest of her life in a mental asylum, St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton.


1906–07 Birmingham F.C. season

Construction of the St Andrew's Ground, in the Bordesley district some three-quarters of a mile (1 km) closer to the city centre, had taken less than a year from leasing the land to official opening on Boxing Day 1906.

1962–63 Football League Cup

Birmingham won the first leg 3–1 at their home ground St Andrew’s, thanks to goals from Jimmy Bloomfield and Ken Leek (2), with Bobby Thomson scoring Villa’s goal.

Andy Ong

Ong was educated at Raffles Institution, St Andrew's Junior College and the National University of Singapore.

Cliff Piper

He was then a canon at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness from 2000 until his appointment as Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness in 2009.

David Maltby

His body was recovered and he was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Wickhambreaux, Kent.

Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge

Hussey's congregation split in 1696, with some going to the meeting in Green Street, Cambridge, and again after he had left for London, in 1721, with a group founding the precursor of St Andrew's Street Baptist Church, Cambridge.

John Machar

In 1827, he emigrated to Kingston, Upper Canada in order to become the minister at St Andrew's Church.

Leyfields

The estate has St Andrew's Methodist church, a Community Centre, shops and Wigginton Park, the home to Tamworth Rugby Union Football Club.

Noel Kinsey

Kinsey scored 17 goals in 40 games of the club's historic 1955–56 campaign, including a hat-trick against Everton on Boxing Day at St Andrew's.

Obadiah Sedgwick

He held for a short time the rectory of St Andrew's, Holborn, on the sequestration (13 December 1645) of John Hacket; but next year (before May 1646) he was appointed to the rectory of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and resigned Coggeshall where John Owen succeeded him (18 August).

Postal codes in Jamaica

Although Kingston, the country's capital, along with part of the parish of St Andrew, was already subdivided into postal zones, these were not incorporated into the new codes.

Pro-cathedral

St Andrews Pro Cathedral in Glasgow has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow since 1889.

St. Julian's

The town is subdivided into informal districts which are Paceville, Ta' Ġiorni, Tal-Għoqod, St Andrew's, as well as the regions surrounding St George's Bay, Spinola Bay, Balluta Bay, and Il-Qaliet cliffs.

Thomas Stanage

He was ordained deacon in 1958, priest in 1959 and bishop in 1978 and went on to serve as Assistant Curate of Great Crosby St Faith 1958–61, Minister of Orford St Andrew Conventional District (1961–63) and Vicar of St Andrew's Church, Orford (1963–70).

Voluntary Medical Service Medal

The reverse features a design of both Geneva and St Andrew's crosses to denote the two qualifying organisations.