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CHURCHES, CHAPELS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP |
ANGLICAN CHURCHES
CHURCH OF SAINT
MATTHEW
The Anglican Church of Saint Matthew is situated in
Sherford Road, Elburton, Plymstock, Plymouth.
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A
Sunday School was formed first and this was held in an old barn.
Between 1915 and 1923 Church services were held in a corrugated hut
(there were many of these so called 'iron church' buildings in
Plymouth).
The hut was on land owned by the
Reverend T E Robinson, a missionary in China. When he sailed
from England in 1920 he left the land in trust for the erection of a
mission church.
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Elburton Church, Plymstock, Plymouth.
From a postcard. |
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Mr J H Tonkin, secretary
and treasurer of the trustees, laid the foundation stone of the
permanent Elburton Mission Church on Saturday September 23rd 1922. It
would seat about 220 when completed. At that time about £240 had
already been raised towards the expected cost of £800. During the
ceremony Miss Lidstone, on behalf of the Ladies' Sewing Guild, presented Mr
Tonkin with an inscribed silver and ivory trowel supplied by
Messrs Page,
Keen and Page, of Plymouth, with which to lay the stone. Afterwards
the Sunday School children placed envelopes containing their contributions
on top of the stone.
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Elburton Church, Plymstock, Plymouth.
From a postcard. |
It was opened 1923 and was dedicated to
Saint Matthew. It was made in to a Conventional District in 1931.
Sources:
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