The original land and the building known as Christ Church, was the gift of Colonel |
Edward Kent Strathern Butler of Martock (Windsor), grandson and sole heir of |
James Morden. It was Col. Butler who offered the inhabitants of French Cross a |
site for a town, a church and a schoolhouse on the condition they would change the |
name of the village to Morden in honor of his grandfather, a storekeeper of |
| ordinance in Halifax who was the prime mover in the building of St. Mary’s Church, |
Auburn. The original church, of colonial architecture with a gallery in the west end, |
was built in 1854. Nestled in a grove of spruce, the building was very picturesque. |
It burned to the ground on one Sunday night in 1905. |
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The Rector, Rev. Henry T. Parlee, who was also an architect, designed and |
supervised the building of the new church, including cutting most of the trusses for |
the roof. The ironwork was done by James Cochraneof Aylesford. It is...
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