The Anglican Ring




Arthur Custance writes that a great advantage of the Anglican service is that a minister is in a position to lead the congregation in a prayer which is not only good English but far more comprehensive in subject matter.

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This southwestern Ontario church was established in 1862 with the current brick building being built in 1900.   Now in a 2 point parish with St James Anglican, St Marys, Ontario.

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The first Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara was born in 1810 in Kingston, Ontario. He was rector of St Paul's Chatham, Thorold and St Georges' Toronto before becoming bishop.

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The congregation was established in 1834.   The first church was built in 1843.   The present building was opened on St. George's Day, April 23, 1881.   Unusual in an Anglican Church, the floor of the nave slopes quite noticeably down from the rear to the chancel.

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This rural parish is in Huron County in southwestern Ontario.   It is made up of Trinity Church, Blyth and St John the Evangelist Church, Brussels.   Settlers, mostly of Scottish descent, but with English as well have been worshipping here since the 1840s.

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The Church of St. James the Apostle is the oldest church in Wallaceburg, Ontario founded in 1864.   It has a beautiful nave and sanctuary and can seat approximately 220 parishioners.   St. James has been blessed with two large halls, both wheelchair accessible as well as spacious Sunday School rooms and a well-equipped nursery.

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There has been a church on this site in Ringmore, Devon probably as early as the seventh century. The church as seen today is from the 13th century and although many modifications have been made over the centuries it is still the same size and shape as when it was first built.

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Arthur Custance discusses architecture, music, imagery, ritual, liturgy - forms of art intended to assist in the act of worship.   Dr Custance writes that the Anglican liturgy has a certain solid spiritual permanence which has allowed the church to be revived under God again and again even when it seemed it must surely be utterly dead.

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Four Anglican churches, similar in design, built between 1824 and 1844 north of Lake Erie, Ontario.   Biography of Thomas Talbot.


Rev. Canon Howard's 1917 history of Christ Church beginning with the Reverend Richard Pollard, the first missionary of the Church of England in the district through to Rev. Canon Howard own appointment in 1910.


The development of the Anglican Church in British Columbia is traced through biographies of its first bishops: George Hills of Columbia, William Ridley of Caledonia and Acton Sillitoe of New Westminster.
The Anglican Ring