General News
25 September, 2024
Pioneer Apostle recalled at anniversary
APOSTLE of the Loddon William Hall has been recalled as a strategy thinker of the Anglican Church whose vision had helped establish Inglewood’s St Augustine’s Church 160 years ago. Retired Bishop of Bendigo Andrew Curnow based his sermon at...
APOSTLE of the Loddon William Hall has been recalled as a strategy thinker of the Anglican Church whose vision had helped establish Inglewood’s St Augustine’s Church 160 years ago.
Retired Bishop of Bendigo Andrew Curnow based his sermon at Sunday’s anniversary service on the pioneering church leader who had lived at Kingower in the 1860s.
Bishop Curnow said Hall had fallen out with the then Bishop of Melbourne and sat in the congregation when the Inglewood church opened.
“Hall was the most pioneering priest of this area ... he has left a wonderful legacy but a huge responsibility with this building,” Bishop Curnow said.
More than 70 people, including former clergy, attended Sunday’s service that saw the historic Fincham organ played by Daniel Clarke to accompany hymns. Bishop Curnow said the heritage-listed instrument was the oldest Fincham organ in Victoria.
Among worshippers were Faye Beattie whose late husband Clive was rector at St Augustine’s in the 1960s and Serpentine’s Prue Milgate, the last person to be married in the church 10 years ago.
The Turpie family, who are remembered with memorial gates at the church, was represented by Graeme Turpie and Marg Davis.