315 Carnarvon Street
Church Hall (1863)
Gothic Revival Style

The Church hall was originally St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and under the pastorship of Rev. R. Jamieson, was the first Presbyterian Church on the British Columbia mainland. This traditional wooden gothic church was built in 1863 by the contractor A.H. Manson. Rev. R. Jamieson had arrived in New Westminster in 1862. His first congregation was 80 residents who met in the original Clarkson Street Court House prior to the building of the wooden church, the first St. Andrew's. Jamieson lived and operated a school in the manse, originally located on the site of the brick church. In 1898, the church and manse were spared from the Great Fire of 1898. The Holy Trinity Cathedral, St. Pauls Reformed Episcopal Church and the Baptist Church, were all destroyed, therefore all three held services at St. Andrew's. In 1922, Gardiner and Mercer raised and remodelled the old church hall for Sunday school purposes.

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