enter inside the left porch door, painting directly ahead
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A framed painting of the first Congregational Church
The first Congregational services were held in 1837 in a large military tent provided by the Colonial Missionary Society (of England) as the first residence for their missionary, Rev T Q Stow, accompanied by his wife and four young children. The site was on the south side of the River Torrens on what is now railway land.
The 'temporary' building shown in the painting was erected soon after using gum wood posts, pine rafters and reed thatch. It provided a chapel measuring forty feet by twenty feet with a schoolroom at one end. Nearby in 1838 Stow built a house for his family with walls of limestone roofed with thatch.