Description
Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Courtesy of Royal BC Museum
Location
Victoria Public Market at the Hudson, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Country
Canada
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
TWW Comment
The original building was the gift of Lady Angela Burdett couts (heiress to the Coutts private bank fortune and a devout Church of England benefactor, who also endowed the Diocese).She had a corrugated iron building shipped in pieces to the new colony, along with a prefabricated rectory, a Bishop and two workmen. This building, located at Douglas and Fisgard where the Hudson Market is now, was known unofficially as “the Iron Church”. It was the first consecrated Anglican church in British Columbia. Burnt down in 1960 and was rebuilt nearby.-- https://www.stjohnthedivine.bc.ca/about/our-history
