Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/St James' Church, Sydney

St James' Church, Sydney (February 2014)
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests.


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The result was: not scheduled by BencherliteTalk 11:19, 21 February 2014‎ (UTC)



St James' Church, Sydney commonly known as St James', King Street, is an Anglican parish church in inner city Sydney, Australia, consecrated in February 1824 and named in honour of St James the Great. It became a parish church in 1835. Designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, St James' is part of the historical precinct of Macquarie Street which includes other early colonial era buildings such as the Hyde Park Barracks. The church building is the oldest one extant in Sydney's inner city region. It is listed on the Register of the National Estate and has been described as one of the world's 80 greatest man-made treasures.


 * Comment - Love the article, but the blurb is too short. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:10, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Likewise, I like this article and will be glad to support it, but two issues: (1) the blurb is short...TFA needs about 1,200 characters, right now it's at 735 characters with spaces (123 words)...so about 465 characters short (i.e. about 70-80 words). (2) Is there any reason for a specific request for 26 January? I don't happen to see that date mentioned in the article.--ColonelHenry (talk) 05:45, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Australia Day, said the nominator / principal author on my talk. This ought to have gone on the pending list, as it's 11 months away, so I'll put it there and check to see whether the wording of my message can be improved. BencherliteTalk 10:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

St James' Church, Sydney (June 2014)

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 25, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 13:11, 26 June 2014 (UTC)



St James' Church is an Anglican parish church in Sydney, Australia, named in honour of St James the Great. It is the oldest extant church building in the city's inner region and it has been in continuous service since it was consecrated in February 1824. Its original ministry was to the early convict population of Sydney as well as to the administrative élite. In succeeding centuries, the church has maintained a special role in the city's religious, civic and musical life as well as close associations with the legal and medical professions. The church building was designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway. Worship is in a style commonly found in the High Church and moderate Anglo-Catholic traditions of Anglicanism. In both style and teaching, St James' contrasts with the majority of churches in its diocese where services are generally in the more austere style associated with Low Church and teaching takes a more socially conservative approach. Part of a historical precinct, it is listed on the Register of the National Estate and has been described as one of the world's 80 greatest man-made treasures.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Wells Cathedral was TFA on 23 February. However, it is an English cathedral whereas St James' is an Australian church.
 * Main editors: Whiteghost.ink
 * Promoted: 26 January 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: 25th July is St James' Day in Western Christianity. There are many churches around the world dedicated to St James and the article exists in five other language versions. This is my first FA and first TFA.
 * Support as nominator. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 08:06, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, important building and parish tradition, good for the day, - I trimmed the blurb a bit, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:04, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * ps: I think this image would show better in small size, - and please go and get a better image of the recent organist playing, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:08, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. pps: I have been trying to get a better image. Still working on it! Whiteghost.ink (talk) 12:06, 24 June 2014 (UTC)