The tower of Brougham Place Uniting Church has been a prominent feature of the Adelaide skyline for over one hundred years. At a public meeting in 1859 the plan to build a 'Grecian or Greco-Italian style' church at North Adelaide was first mooted. Well-known architectural partners, Edward Hamilton and Edmund Wright, won the subsequent competition for a church design. In 1871 Hamilton designed the addition of a tower. The building, capable of seating 600 people with an additional 200 in the galleries, was erected under the guidance of Thomas Frost, a church member and later a well-known architect. For many years this was the colony's largest church, and membership expanded as a recult of the progressive preaching of the Rev. James Jefferis.