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unusual facts about St Stephen's Anglican Church


St Stephen's Anglican Church

In May 1862 Matthew Hale in his role as Lord Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Perth consecrated the church and it opened for services.


Aladura

The first Aladura Movement emerged from St. Saviour's Anglican Church, Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria in 1918 after the Sexton, Ali, had related a dream to four Elders of the church, J.B. Sadare, E.O. Onabanjo, D.C. Oduga, and E.O.W. Olukoya.

Burnley, Victoria

On 22 January 1885, St Bartholomew's Anglican Church was opened after land had been granted by the Victorian Government in 1870.

C. Y. O'Connor

On 7 December 1898, his daughter Eva married Sir George Julius at St John's Church, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Church of St. Peter, St. Albans

There is some uncertainty about the dates other details in the writings of Paris, but there is little doubt that the church, together with St Stephen's and St Michael's churches, was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

George baronets

The George Baronetcy, of Park Place in the County of Middlesex and of St Stephen's Green in the County of Dublin, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Harold Osbaldestin

Osbaldestin's marriage to Jane Ellen (Nellie) Gregson took place on Tuesday 27 December 1932 at St Stephen's Church, Whelley, Wigan.

James Burbage

He was apprenticed in London to the trade of joiner, and must have persevered through his apprenticeship and taken up his freedom, as in 1559 he was referred to as a joiner twice in the St Stephen's register.

John Whichcord Jr.

One of Whichcord's best-known works was St Stephen's Club, Westminster (built 1874, demolished 1994), a classical building with boldly corbelled projections, facing Westminster bridge.

Josefa de Godoy di Bassano, 2nd Viscountess of Rocafuerte

Her maternal grandparents were Sir Lawrence Crowe, Lord of St Stephen's Green House, and Lady Lucinda O'Donovan O'Neill, both from Dublin, Ireland.

Joseph Ebsworth

Ebsworth became established in Edinburgh as teacher of music and singing, and accepted the position of leader of the choir at St. Stephen's Church, which caused him to give up acting; but he continued to write and to translate dramas, which played in London and the provinces.

Philip Down

Since 1995, Down has ministered in Kent – initially as Rector at St Stephen's, Canterbury until 2002, during which time he was additionally Area Dean of Canterbury from 1999.

Prince Oscar Bernadotte

They were married 15 March 1888 in St Stephen's Church in Bournemouth in England by the vicar Gustaf Beskow, who was close to the queen, Sofia of Nassau, in the presence of Oscar's mother, Queen Sophia, his brothers, two of his brothers, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke and his cousin, the Danish crown princess Louise of Sweden, as well as the mother and brother of Ebba.

Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church

Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church is an historic building in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

St John's Anglican Church, Dalby

The Reverend Benjamin Glennie had a plan to establish the (then) Church of England on the Darling Downs through four churches in the larger towns named after the four apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

In 1922, a third church was designed by architect Harry Marks, a member of the prominent family of architects in Toowoomba and the foundation stone laid.

St John's, Redhill

Pearson's building is typical of his major churches, and shares characteristic features with such buildings as St Stephen, Bournemouth, All Saints, Hove, St Augustine, Kilburn and St John, South Norwood.

St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui

He was principal of Christchurch West School and later of the Christchurch Training College.

St Paul's Anglican Church is a Category II listed heritage building in the Christchurch, New Zealand suburb of Papanui.

St Stephen's Chapel

A lower false ceiling was installed in the chamber to help to improve its acoustics, the quality of which was important in an age without artificial amplification.

St Stephen's Church, Bristol

The site was on the banks of the River Frome, which was diverted at around this time to create Bristol Harbour.

He was a navigator, explorer and merchant and discovered what is now called Cape Cod Bay.

St Stephen's Church, Dublin

It was originally conceived as a chapel-of-ease for the parish of St. Peter's, which was the largest Church of Ireland parish in Dublin.

St Stephen's Club

From 1962 it occupied a building at 34 Queen Anne's Gate, overlooking Birdcage Walk and St. James's Park.

St Stephen's Green

One of the more unusual aspects of the park lies on the north west corner of this central area – a garden for the blind with scented plants, which can withstand handling, and are labelled in Braille.

a group representing the Three Fates inside the Leeson Street gate (a gift from the German people in thanks for Irish help to refugees after World War II)

St Stephen's Green station

An extension of the LUAS Green Line is planned to cross the River Liffey, and intersect with the Red Line at the junction between O'Connell Street and Abbey Street and terminate at Broombridge (in Cabra) to interconnect with the Irish Rail Broombridge railway station.

Similar plans for a DART network extension proposed an underground stop at St Stephen's Green.

St Stephen's, Walbrook

On 14 July 1994, the church was the venue for the wedding of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones to Daniel Chatto.

St. Anne's Anglican Church

The artwork by J. E. H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, and Franklin Carmichael is religious iconography, something they are not generally known for.

The current building, dating to 1907-8 and overlooking Dufferin Street, is noted for its distinctive design, based on the architecture of the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople.

Anne's, Gladstone Avenue (in earlier documents, St Anne's, Brockton and popularly the Group of Seven Church) in Toronto is a National Historic Site and parish of the Anglican Church of Canada.

St. George's Anglican Church, Berlin

The church served as the garrison church of the British Army during the Allied occupation, and reverted to civilian control in 1994.

Staggers

St Stephen's House, Oxford, an Anglican theological college nicknamed "Staggers"

Valson Thampu

Valson Thampu is an Indian educator, Christian theologian, who is the present Principal of St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi, since 2008.

Wythall

St Mary's Anglican church has a roof and stair turret added by W.H. Bidlake.


see also

Whitechapel Bell Foundry

Many churches across the world have bells cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, including: Armenian Church, Chennai; St Dunstan's, Mayfield; St Dunstan's, Stepney; St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside; St. Michael's Church, Charleston; St Stephen's Anglican Church, Newtown and St Philip's Church.