A Collectiolt of Tulks :: of Historicul Interest 2010

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; J The Design, BuildiqS, and Rebuilding t St. Paul'sAnglican Church, Kingston, 1844-1856 I PAT]L CIIRISTIANSON J t the annualEaster vestry meetingof the greatincrease to the populationof St. George'sAnglican Churoh in Kingston which had takenplace within the last I Kingstonheld on 8 April 1844,the threeyears, rendered it absolutelynecessary to Honourable Peter Boyle de Blaquidre, a provide additional Churchaccommodation for younger son of John, Baron Blaquidre of memberswho havenot, and from various J fudkill in Ireland stood to addressthe men of circumstancescannot otherwise find the means substancewho attended. A member of the of PublicWorship in our Communion."rThe Legislative Council of Upper Canadaand then needfor two new churchesin Kingston existed ; of its successorin the United Province of andit wasthe responsibilityof the membersof Canada, he probably spoke on behalf of a St. George'sto take the initiative in erecting goup of Tory members of St. George's, men them. The vestryagreed. I like John Solomon Cartwright (a leading lawyer and landholder), the Honourable John By the 1840s,Anglicans in CanadaWest were Macaulay (a prominent businessman and experiencingstrong competition not only from J fellow member of the Legislative Councils, RomanCatholics, but alsofrom Presbyterians who had received his early formal education and Methodists. Building churchesbecame a from the Reverend ), and way not only for displayingwealth and status, I Thomas Kirkpatrick (a prominent lawyer and but also for nurturing and expandingthe politician, who was the first mayor of membershipof the Anglicans.2The I Kingston). He moved that funds be raised to cornerstonefor St.Mark's Anglicanchurch, build two'additional Anglican churchesin the Barriefield,was laid on 3 July 1843,less than a greater Kingston area, one on the eastern side yearbefore de Blaquidre'sspeech, and most of I of town and the other "on Lot24 inthe the building was finished by the end of June Western side of the Town." He argued "that 1944.3 I l I i

Macaulayoffrcially laying the stone. They had alreadyselected the Toronto architectHenry Bowyer JosephLane to designand overseethe building of St.Paul's Anglican church.6 This churchwould commemoratethe memory of i the "ReverendRobert David, CARTWRTGHT, late AssistantMinister of the Parishof Saint George." Contributionsfrom Cartwright's "friends in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and keland, as well as in this Country,, providedthe bulk ofthe funding.

Figure1. Barriefield, St. Mark's Anglican Church I (18434);Photo: Paul Christianson" 2008

The cornerstonefor St. James'Anglican church, Stuartville, was laid on Lot. 24 on28 September 1844 andthe church openedon 24 August 1845.4 Both of these were Gothic revival shrrcturesbuilt of local limestone. (fig. 1and,2)

ceremony for laying the "foundation- -lh" I stone" of St. Paul's on the Monday after Easter, 7 April 1846, made this clear: '?fter the usual Morning service for the day had been Figure 2. Kingston, St. James'Anglican Church celebratedin St. George's Church, and the (1344-5),ca 1850;courtesy ofthe AnglicanDiocese of businessof the Annual Vestry Meeting had Ontario Archives, (Kingston, Ontario), St. James'Church I been transacted, the Clergy, the Building (Klngston), fonds. Committee.of the new Church, and the children ofthe Sunday school of St. George's Atthe ceremony, the "Venerable Archdeacon I Parish, walked in processionfrom St. George's of Kingston,assisted by the Rev. Messrs. Church to the burying-ground on Herchmerand Bartlett " officiated, with the Queen-street, *Right in which St. Paul's Church is to ReverendJohn Strachan, D.D. L.L.D., I stand."5 The large building committee of twenty men, Lord Bishopof Toronto"attending, and the gathered from the leading members of St. 'lhe childrenof St.George'sSuqday-school"