Appeals

Visiting Moonta is a fascinating journey back into our Cornish mining heritage and the history of the area. The National Trust of South Australia is the custodian of a number of heritage buildings in the Moonta Mines Heritage Precinct and they are staffed and managed by local volunteers of the Moonta branch of the National Trust. A visit to the Moonta Mines Museum, with its many rooms of memorabilia highlighting […]  Read More »

Sitting in the middle of Torrens Square, Augusta Street, St Peter’s Anglican Church has a unique place in the heart of Glenelg and South Australia. A new conservation appeal will support the ongoing preservation of this important church for future generations. Torrens Square was set aside for a church at Glenelg by Colonel William Light in 1839. The first church, built in 1852, was reported by the SA Register (29 […]  Read More »

  Robe is one of South Australia’s earliest and best preserved townships.  This historic port was established in 1846 and boasts one of the finest collections of stone buildings from the mid nineteenth century.  It thrived as the gateway to the South-East from the 1850s to 1870s, including as a landing place for thousands of Chinese would be miners heading for the Victorian goldfields. By the 1890s, with the coming […]  Read More »

The National Trust of South Australia has become the new custodian of the North Adelaide Baptist Church on Tynte Street through the gifting of the iconic property by the church membership. The church complex celebrates its 150th anniversary this year as a place of worship and community. The main church building and associated hall and manse buildings sit on an intact original one acre lot in the centre of North […]  Read More »

Kangaroo Island Bushfire Recovery Appeal   The National Trust of South Australia has established two fund raising appeals to assist with the bushfire recovery effort on Kangaroo Island. The Trust is working with local residents in the fire affected areas to identify priority projects such as supporting the restoration of buildings and assisting with the recovery of natural habitat and native species on Kangaroo Island. Our first building restoration project […]  Read More »

All Souls Church St Peters in the City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters is a locally heritage listed building built in the Byzantine style.  It has a particularly wide nave and narrow aisles and a colonnade of closely spaced arches.  The roof is constructed of Marseille terracotta tiles. All Souls is home to some of the most beautiful and significant stained glass windows in South Australia, designed by Morris […]  Read More »

The Pilgrim Uniting Church building, dedicated in 1867 as Stow Memorial Congregational Church, is a beautiful example of ‘Revival Gothic’ architecture. The magnificent organ, originally installed in the Pirie Street Methodist Church in 1855, was the largest in the colony and has been continually upgraded since then. It was rebuilt into the south gallery of Pilgrim Uniting Church in 1973 when the Pirie Street Methodist Church closed. The Church building […]  Read More »

Adare House at Victor Harbor, 75 km south of Adelaide, is a grand home completed in 1893 now owned by the Uniting Church of Australia.  It is located on the outskirts of the town along the banks of the Hindmarsh River, but with views to the ocean.  For more than sixty years, Adare House has been used by the church for group camps and more recently, for private functions such […]  Read More »

One of the most unusual and significant items cared for by the National Trust is an early domestic pipe organ built by the renowned London organ builder, Henry Bevington.  Bevington founded one of the most famous organ building enterprises of the nineteenth century.  It appears, from the nameplate, that this organ is the earliest example of its work known in Australia, and perhaps one of the earliest surviving examples anywhere, […]  Read More »

The Payneham Road Uniting Church is prominently located on Payneham Road at its intersection with Lower Portrush Road. The church (built in 1882) and the adjacent hall (built in 1905), are listed in the SA Heritage Register as a pair of fine Gothic revival buildings of outstanding architectural importance. They constitute a notable and familiar landmark. Both buildings have recently been re-roofed. The interior of the church has been sensitively […]  Read More »

The Capri Theatre is an iconic South Australian venue which was added to the State Heritage list in 1991. Originally opened in 1941 as the Goodwood Star Theatre and later purchased by the Theatre Organ Society of Australia (TOSA) in 1978, an independent not-for-profit cinema run by a network of generous volunteers. TOSA have gradually renovated and restored much of the theatre to its 1941 Art-deco/Moderne style, and now plan to […]  Read More »

St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral is the oldest Catholic Cathedral in Australia and the heart of Catholic life in Adelaide. Located in Victoria Square, the building is considered a major Australian work in the Gothic Revival style. Much has been done in recent years to restore the building’s exterior. Now, the focus of restoration work is moving to the interior of the church, including upgrading the church’s organ. Stage One of […]  Read More »

The Cape Jaffa lighthouse  is  a  South  Australian  icon.  More  than  40  metres tall and including accommodation for two families, the lighthouse stood on Margaret Brock reef near Cape Jaffa for 100 years. Retired to the land by the National Trust of South Australia and now operating as a tourist attraction in Kingston SE, this impressive structure urgently needs major conservation work to counter the effects of corrosion and replace […]  Read More »