The 1838 foundation scroll for Adelaide's Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Peter Lane

Article from Vol 39 no 1, Feb 2017

The 1838 foundation scroll for Adelaide's Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Peter Lane

Abstract:

Religion was much more prominent and pervasive in 19th-century Australia than it is today, and South Australia was more tolerant of all sects than the other colonies. Peter Lane discusses the foundation scroll laid by Governor Gawler for Adelaide’s Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, constructed less than two years after the first colonists arrived, and the resources available in a new settlement.

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