St. Peter's Church (Twillingate)
St. Peter's Church (Twillingate)![[St. Peter's Church: Image]](045.jpg)
St. Peter's Anglican Church was consecrated by Bishop Feild onJuly 3, 1845 and replaced an earlier church which had been built in 1827. The nave of the church had, in fact, been completed by 1842 and the tower in 1844. In 1884 a chancel was added by Titus Manuel and built in memory of Edwin Duder. The church has a strong connection with St. James in Poole, Dorset, the home port of many of the Newfoundland merchants and in particular of John Slade. Slade contributed timbers to the building of St. James Church and acquired from the old church the brass candle sconces. Those sconces which he gave to St. Peter's still decorate the walls.
The galleries in the church take its interior back to an earlier period of church design. It is interesting to note that Bishop Feild consecrated the church for he, as an ardent Gothic Revivalist, was strongly opposed to the use of galleries and had them removed from as many Newfoundland churches as he could. One further note of interest is the bell which was given by the congregation in 1862 as thanks for the great crop of seals taken in that year.