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  • The first recorded service is dated 4th April 1886 some five years before the church was consecrated.

  • The services were held in the Hotel Bellevue and often had to be held twice for lack of space and numbers in the congregation

  • Typically Sunday services, in the early years, consisted of:
               Holy Communion at 8:30 am
               Matins at 11:00 am
               Holy Communion at 12:00 am
               Evensong at 5:30 pm

  • In the 120 year history of Church activity, 11,448 services of various kinds have taken place (Weekly, Sunday, Baptisms and Blessings), while 10,821 services have been held in the Church.

  • Over the same period 256,110 people have attended one or more services (18.940 in the Bellevue and 238,020 in the Church).