15-642: The Davey Street Congregational Church is a former Congregational church located at 47 Davey Street , Hobart, Tasmania , Australia . Established in 1857 and closed in 1973, it played a significant role in Hobart's religious and community life. Located at 47 Davey Street, the church is situated within the Hobart City Centre , neighbouring the Hobart Real Tennis Club and directly opposite St David's Park . Its tall spire makes it
30-596: A slate roof . Its most notable feature is the 29-metre (94 ft), which makes it a recognisable landmark to the Davey St streetscape. Inside, the church originally accommodated up to 700 people. The design reflects a simple, yet elegant aesthetic, typical of mid-19th-century ecclesiastical architecture in Tasmania. The building played a significant role in the foundation of Colony 47 , a Hobart-based organisation supporting disadvantaged individuals. Its long history as
45-537: A community organisation that operated from the church for over 30 years. Colony 47 vacated the building in 2012, and the church was later sold. In March 2022, the former church was listed for sale again, offering only the second opportunity in its 165-year history to purchase the building. The church is designed in the Victorian Gothic Revival style by Charles Tiffin and William Montgomery Davenport Davidson . It features Risdon freestone with
60-630: A community resource is a lasting legacy of its original Congregational mission. Congregational Union of Australia The Congregational Union of Australia was a Congregational denomination in Australia that stemmed from the Congregational Church in England as settlers migrated from there to Australia. Congregational Churches existed in all states and territories of Australia at some time. The oldest Congregational Church
75-541: A politician who later became Premier of Tasmania , served as minister from 1874 to 1877. In later years, Frederick Pratt was another prominent minister, serving from 1925 to 1928. The church remained a key religious site until its closure in March 1973, when the congregation merged with the Memorial Congregational Church. After its closure, the building became the headquarters for Colony 47 ,
90-537: A prominent Davey Street landmark. The foundation stone was laid by Henry Hopkins on 31 July 1856. Designed by Charles Tiffin and William Montgomery Davenport Davidson , the church was officially opened on 16 August 1857. Hopkins, a well-known philanthropist, funded much of the church's construction. The first minister, George Clarke , served the congregation for 52 years, from its opening until 1909. While Clarke travelled in England and Palestine, Stafford Bird ,
105-951: A scholarship to Manchester Pupil Teacher Training Centre. In 1904 she entered the Victoria University of Manchester (B.A., 1907) where she won the university prize in logic; she became a schoolteacher. She married Edward Sidney Kiek , a Congregational church minister, on 28 August 1911 at the Chorlton Road Congregational Church, Manchester; they had three children. After World War One, they migrated to Adelaide , South Australia where Edward Kiek became head of Parkin Congregational Theological College (later Parkin-Wesley College and now Uniting College for Leadership and Theology ) in 1920. Winifred died at Victor Harbor on 23 May 1975. She studied theology and in 1923 she
120-874: The Australian Federation of Women Voters . She was twice vice-chair of the Congregational Union of South Australia and acting chair in 1944-1945. She was also a member of the Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association, where she was a delegate to women's conferences in New Zealand (1952), Sri Lanka (1955), Iran (1960) and Japan (1966). After World War II Winifred Kiek became the World Council of Churches liaison officer in Australia for work among women; in 1950 she joined
135-662: The Union objected to joining the new Uniting Church and formed the Fellowship of Congregational Churches instead. In 1995, there was a split within that Fellowship, with some more ecumenically -minded congregations leaving to form the Congregational Federation of Australia . Today, there are, therefore, three Christian organizations that can claim to be direct 'descendants' of the Union. Winifred Kiek Winifred Kiek ( née Jackson ; 1884-1975)
150-732: The council's commission on the work of women in the Churches and attended its Oxford meeting in 1952. In 1953-56 she was convenor of the Australian Council of Churches commission on the co-operation of men and women in the Church, about which she wrote in We of One House (Sydney, 1954). She was twice vice-chairman of the Congregational Union of South Australia and acting chairman in 1944-45. The Winifred Kiek Scholarship for theological education of women in leadership, or charitable projects in
165-640: The women's movement from her arrival in South Australia. She was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in South Australia and president in 1926; a member of the National Council of Women from the early 1920s, a convenor of its committee on equal moral standards in 1927-1931 and member of its committee for peace and arbitration from 1938-1950. She held office in the Women's Non-Party Association (later League of Women Voters ), and in
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#1732776205818180-1025: Was founded in Hobart in 1830 by Frederick Miller . One of the earliest and most influential Congregational ministers in early times was Thomas Q. Stow , who built the first church in South Australia . Some of the first Congregational Churches established in each Australian state included the Pitt St church in Sydney, Stow Memorial Church (now Pilgrim Uniting ) in Adelaide, Collins Street (now St Michael's ) church in Melbourne, Trinity (now Trinity Uniting) in Perth, and National Memorial Church (now City Uniting) in Canberra. The Congregational Church
195-685: Was the first Christian denomination in Australia to ordain women, with the first female ordained being Winifred Kiek in 1927. The Union dissolved in 1977 when the Uniting Church in Australia was formed. 260 of the congregations that had previously formed the Union joined the new Uniting Church . The Uniting Church union also included the Methodist Church of Australasia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia . However, 40 other congregations that had previously formed
210-631: Was the first woman to be ordained in the Christian Ministry in Australia. She was ordained on 13 June 1927 in South Australia to the Congregational Union of Australia (now part of the Uniting Church in Australia ). Winifred was born in Manchester, England to John Robert Jackson, a tea salesman, and his wife Margaret, née Harker, who were Quakers Winifred was educated at Urmston Higher Grade School, and at 16 she won
225-875: Was the first woman to graduate with a Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) from the Melbourne College of Divinity . In 1929 she took an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Adelaide . From 1926 Winifred preached in the new Colonel Light Gardens Congregational Union Church (now Colonel Light Gardens Uniting Church). This was the church in which she was ordained in 1927, and where she served until 1933. She also served as minister of Knoxville Congregational Church in 1939-46, and preached frequently in Congregational and other churches. She lectured at Parkin College from 1930. Winifred Kiek championed sexual equality and
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