Building Details - Architects of South Australia

In 1859, in conjunction with Edmund Wright, he submitted an entry in a competition for the Congregational Church, Brougham Place, North Adelaide which they won. ‘Thomas Frost the builder and his Congregational colleagues had secured a magnificent site on the eastern side of Brougham Place and they planned to build a great new temple of faith. They advertised an architectural competition for the design, specifying that the church must be in the Grecian or Graeco-Italian style, built of best hard stone from Dry Creek or Glen Osmond, and capable of seating 600 worshippers on a ground floor to be built over a basement containing schoolrooms’ (Page 1986, p.65). This winning design has been said to be ‘continuing a tradition begun in Wren’s London churches’ (Langmead p.194-5). The firm finished off Hamilton’s earlier work by placing a tower on to the Congregational Church at Brougham Place in 1871, after Hamilton had left the State.