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The present church was built about 1854 in Grafton as a mission church of St. John’s |
Church Street. It was moved to the more rapidly growing community of Berwick |
(where, in 1869 the Windsor and Annapolis Railway caused a population shift) in |
1876, largely through the efforts of Mrs. Joseph Andrews and Mr. Thomas Ashe, a |
stonemason from Ireland, who, it is reported, built the foundation on which the |
church still stands with his own hands, and may even be responsible for providing |
the Altar Stone of Jerusalem origin which graces the wooden altar. The reredoes is |
a memorial to Mrs. Andrews given by the Guild. The chancel and vestry were added |
after the move to Berwick, and the structure was consecrated by Bishop Binney in |
1883. The first priest to serve while the church was in Grafton was the Rev. J.O. |
Ruggles, succeeded by the Rev. F.J.H. Axford during whose time (in the year 1887) |
the mission was transferred from the parish of Cornwallis to the parish of...
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