HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH
MURRAY BRIDGE, SA CATHOLIC
PAUL SCOTT
SATELLITE VIEW
The Holy Redeemer Catholic Church lies just out of the city of Murray Bridge on the road to Mannum. It lies on the corner with Ind Street, and is easily located by the pedestrian overpass across the Mannum Road.
The Church is oriented with its sanctuary in a east-north-east direction. For descriptive purposes on this site we will denote this by liturgical East (with a capital letter), and the other directions accordingly (indicated in gold).
The satellite view shows that the Church has a cruciform shape with an apse at the Eastern end, and a crenelated tower at the Southwest corner. A small vestry is located just East of the North transept. A little garden with statue is found at the corner of Mannum Road and Ind Street.
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HISTORY
Address: 17 Ind Street, Murray Bridge
Built: 1910
Most Holy Redeemer Church on Mannum Road was built in 1910 and officially opened in 1911 by the first Parish Priest, Fr Cornelius Crowley.
The total cost of the building and land was £1,600.
In the 1970s asbestos tiles were placed on top of the corrugated roof and now those tiles are showing signs of movement.
[2021 Note: this work appears to have been completed.]
https://www.murrayvalleystandard.com.au/story/4977444/church-seeks-funding-to-replace-roof/
Architecture
The Church is built in the Gothic style common to this denomination, with a gabled porch flanked by a protruding, crenellated tower on one side and lower crenellated narthex on the other. Prominent buttresses have been used to mark corners. Openings have pointed arches with label moulds. The Church is constructed of sandstone, roughly coursed, with red quoins and white banding. The roof is clad with corrugated iron.
History
The Church was built in 1910, as one of the earliest permanent Catholic Churches in the region. Mr J. Bartlett donated and carted limestone rubble for the concrete foundations and quarried and cut freestone for the buildings. The contract was let to Mr. F. Fricker of Port Adelaide whose tender was for £1,230 (excluding furnishings). It was enlarged in 1938 and the adjacent presbytery was built in 1953.
