The large volume, the roof shape and general form and materials of the interior give good acoustic properties, and the church has a long and continuing role in musical performances and celebrations. Edmund Wright was born in England and trained as an architect and civil engineer in London. He arrived in South Australia about and after a short period in Victoria, returned to Adelaide to establish his architectural practice.
Edward Woods was also born in England and trained in London, working there for several years before arriving in Adelaide in After a short period as an employee of Edmund Wright, the two architects became partners from to During their partnership they designed Wesley Methodist Church at Kent Town, but in , the year the church was opened, their partnership was dissolved.
Woods set up his own practice, later being appointed the first Government Architect-in-Chief in before returning to private practice in As Architect-in Chief he supervised the construction of Parliament House. He also supervised the construction of St. From its opening in as the Jubilee Methodist Church, considerable importance has been given to the musical life of the church and in particular to the maintenance of an adequate pipe organ.
The first pipe organ was purchased in from Hill and Son in England. It was installed high in the organ loft, with access to the console from the transept galleries. This organ was removed at the end of the nineteenth century to make way for a larger instrument. The present organ, installed in , was built in South Australia by J E Dodd and Sons and had mechanical action, a water engine to produce the wind pressure in the bellows and chests, with back-up of a hand pump for use in emergency.
The organ pipes were manufactured in Melbourne by Fincharns and in England by the firms of Bishop and Palmers. Modifications were made to the sanctuary to permit the choir stalls and console of the considerably larger instrument to be placed in their present positions. This entailed extending both keyboards by five notes to sixty one notes with the addition of all the necessary pipes, replacing the pedal board with a standard radiating board, replacing the worn mechanical action, adding five ranks of pipes and taking advantage of the new action to extend the range of couplers and accessories.
If you would like to contribute a tax deductable donation to the organ fund you can down load further information here: add the PDF. The obelisk Civil War Soldiers Monument at the intersection of State Route 7, a major north-south road and Route , an east-west road is a dramatic assurance that you have arrived in downtown Kent. The downtown area is a mix of residential homes, shops, art galleries, and restaurants. Most of the businesses are owner operated, so take the time to stop and talk to the owners about town.
The population had been decimated by exposure to smallpox carried down the River Murray by settlers from the Eastern colonies. Within twenty years of Adelaide being settled, the few remaining survivors of the Kaurna people were relocated to a mission settlement at Poonindie, near Port Lincoln.
Within a few days of arriving in the colony, Dr Kent renegotiated his lease and settled on land in Section near Norwood instead of settling at Thebarton as originally intended.
He erected a wooden prefabricated cottage in a grove of wattles on the corner of Rundle Street and Dequetteville Terrace. Kent Town was also considered too central. The Board believed that boys committed to its care for 'delinquency' or truancy which meant not attending school were better off living away from the city and further from what they regarded was often the 'disturbing influences by parents'. Additionally, boys from Kent Town were to attend Norwood Primary and Technical Schools and the Board felt that by sending boys to local schools the Salvation Army would be 'daily parading these State boys through the streets to and from school where they become known to the public and marked by their fellow scholars'.
As a result of the Board's decision, the Kent Town Boys' Home opened on 27 April without being proclaimed as a private institution under the control of the government. Instead it operated as a home for boys placed privately. However, over time, the government did become more involved with the Home.
In when changes were made to the Maintenance Act Amendment Act , a piece of legislation related to the care and maintenance of children, Kent Town was classified as a 'benevolent institution' caring for illegitimate children under the age of seven. This meant that the Home had to be inspected by government welfare officers and periodic inspection reports appear on a departmental file from March to May These reports show that the Home generally accommodated between 45 and 48 boys.
Sometimes this number included up to eight children under the age of seven. Also by the mids the government's Aborigines Protection Board placed a number of Aboriginal boys under its control, at Kent Town.
One boy who was placed at the Kent Town Boys' Home at the age of 8 in recalls sleeping in a ground floor, six bed dormitory, with younger boys. At the age of 8, he was regarded as one of the older residents:. And they didn't know really what they were there for…their world just changed so dramatically and they couldn't understand it…a lot of them wet the bed, a lot of them were crying. A lot of them followed you about … around the yard or followed you wherever you went.
As with many institutions of the time, children were punished for wetting their beds.
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