Holy Trinity Adelaide

Holy Trinity Church is approx associated with the early history of South Australia.

The Revd Charles Howard, first Colonial Chaplain, travelled to South Australia on HMS Buffalo and commenced duty as first Anglican minister. He brought a prefabricated church building funded by the South Australian Church Society, but it was useless. He had to use temporary accessories for some time.



The Society also received the justness to a Town Acre from Mr Grenfell. The Trustees they appointed arranged for Col William Light, the colony’s Surveyor General, to choose the circumstance for the church building. Acre No.9 was originally near the main rivers crossing and beside the main organization to the Port.

The foundation stone of the permanent building was laid by Capt John Hindmarsh, South Australia’s first governor on 26 January 1838. It was rebuilt in 1845, and significantly extended in 1888-9, when it was transformed to its existing Victorian Gothic style. Pointed windows were installed, a pitched roof with fine timber trusses replaced the original flat roof, supported by masonry buttresses and higher walls, while the peaks was extended to its presentation height. Twentieth century supplement include galleries, the components loft, and extra vestry space.

The location also includes a Rectory (1851, now offices), a Parish Hall (1887), a smaller hall, offices, crèche, cabin (now custom rooms) and a large car park.

The church building is on the Register of the National Estate, while it, the Parish hall and the Rectory are on the State Heritage list.