St. Jude’s Church, North Adolphustown 2008
Deed May 11 1892 Adolphustown Concession 4 E ½ L18 (St. Jude’s Church) Franklin Churchill Bogart & Eugenia Bogart (his wife) to The Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Ontario $1.00 That certain parcel of land lying in the east half of Lot Eighteen in the Fourth Concession of the Township of Adolphustown beginning at the road and running south along the line between the west half of lot seventeen and the east half of Lot eighteen one hundred feet, then west seventy feet, then north one hundred feet to the Road again.
Neat St. Jude’s Church It Was Recently Opened at Gosport, Lennox County Gosport is a locality which is separated from the mainland by Deseronto bay on the north, Quinte’s bay on the west and Hay Bay on the south, is a peninsula not easy of access and consequently has not received much of the church’s attentions. At the beginning of the century, the indefatigable pioneer missionary, who travelled over all the ground between Kingston and Napanee, the Rev. John Langhorn, used to hold services in the house of Capt. Parks, U.E. Loyalist, on the north side of Hay Bay. After him no church clergyman visited the section till a few years ago when it began to receive fortnightly services from Adolphustown. Indeed, we may say from Belleville for Rev. Albert L. Geen has come from there every second week to take duty or to enable it to be taken at Gosport or Park’s school house. The church people, a small band, seem to have appreciated these efforts, for when a movement was made in the spring to erect a church among them, they responded heartily and liberally. Frank Bogart, whose wife is an attached churchwoman, gave the building site. The churchmen of the parish of Adolphustown and Fredericksburgh subscribed over $200 towards the church. John Soby, Picton, gave and collected for it the sum of $71. The Rev. A.L. Geen, by giving all the glass used in the building and in many other ways, has warmly and materially furthered the undertaking, while the builder, Alfred Rendell, of Napanee, as if catching the spirit which was abroad, put his whole heart and energies into the work and in the short space of two months, completed a church which for workmanship, design and cheapness does the utmost credit to this taste, skill and honesty. It is a small building 32 ft. x 18 ft., but well proportioned and church-like, with painted windows and doors. Inside everything is neat and well finished. The wainscoting and the ceiling are of ash boarding, oiled and varnished. The altar stands on an elevated dais and the wall about and on each sides of it is paneled to form a reredos. The centre panel over the altar has the word Jesus inscribed in gilt letters over a cross. The side panels contain the sacred monograms Alpha and Omega. The windows are glazed with coloured glass in the margins and enameled centre lights. Two vases filled with flowers occupied the shelf over the altar. All looked bright and comfortable. The opening services were held on St. Simon and St. Jude’s Day, Oct. 28^th. The clergy present, to assist in the services were Rev. Rural Dean Baker, Rev. Canon Burke, Rev. Arthur Jarvis, Rev. Albert L. Geen and Rev. R.S. Forneri. The chief service of the day, the communion service, was celebrated by the rural dean, who, in the proper place, read a formal declaration of the opening of the church for public worship, naming it St. Jude’s Church. The rural dean also preached a telling discourse from the text, “I was glad when they said unto me we will go up into the house of the Lord.” After service, the clergy adjourned to the residence of John Soby, Jr., where an excellent dinner awaited them. At seven o’clock evening prayer was said and an admirable discourse was delivered by the Rev. Canon Burke on the uses of the church. At this service two infants were baptized, the one, a girl, belonging to Mrs. Sherman, and the other a boy, the first born of Mrs. Thos. Tierney. The singing, which was by the choir of St. Alban’s Adolphustown, was excellent and the service throughout was bright and hearty. It was a day of “joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the voice of melody” which will long be remembered by those who took part in it. After the service, all the clergy were invited to the hospitable house of Mrs. Hermance’s for supper. We may add that the church yet needs help and will be thankful to receive it through Rural Dean Baker from any who sympathize with the efforts of a small band of church people to plant the church among them. November 3 1892 Weekly British Whig
Interior of St. Jude’s 1922
St. Jude’s in the early 1970s
In 1974, the church was moved from Lot 18 to Lot 20 and re-erected at Perfect Vue Resort

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