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Records of the Scottish settlers in the River Plate and their churches (1897) (14784433722)
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Dodds, James, of Buenos Aires
St. Andrew's Scotch Presbyterian Church, Buenos Aires. Completed in 1835, it was demolished in 1893. Identifier: recordsofscottis00dodd (find matches) Title: Records of the Scottish settlers in the River Plate and their churches Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Dodds, James, of Buenos Aires Subjects: Scots Presbyterian Church Publisher: Buenos Aires : Grant and Sylvester Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Secretaries of State, andshall hold such their offices for and during His Majestys pleasureand no longer. We thus notice that £400 sterling was the maximumto be paid by the British Government, and in this way ina wealthy congregation the stipend might and sometimeswas raised to £800 sterling per annum. Although the building of the church was now prosecutedwith vigour, we find that two years were spent in itsconstruction. An accident occurred which caused a con-siderable delay and an extra expenditure of $5000. Theinterior pillars seem to have settled clown from someimperfection in the foundations, thus fracturing the roof tosuch an extent that both pillars and roof had to be rebuilt.The foundation stone was laid on the 25th February 1833,and the church was opened for public worship on the 25 thApril 1835, but a longer period had yet to elapse before thebenefit of the Consular Act could be felt, and not till 1838was the first supplementary amount paid to us by the BritishGovernment. Text Appearing After Image: CHAPTEK XV ST. This beautiful church was opened for divine service onSunday, 25th April 1835, and, according to the custom ofthe Presbyterian Church, without any outward formal dedi-catory display; but a very impressive
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- Neoclassical architecture in ArgentinaChurches built in 1835Scottish diaspora in ArgentinaDestroyed in 1893Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a scriptBuenos Aires in the 1890sFlickr images reviewed by FlickreviewRBuilt in Argentina in 1835