Building Details - Architects of South Australia

Constructed of pink and white marble and red sandstone sourced from Central Australia, it was ‘intended to interpret and express history, the history of Flynn and the Inland; to speak of Flynn, with a message not only for the worshipper, for every inlander, for tourist and townsman alike’. It was conceived as three forms in one: a circle of stones within an oval court and, uniting them, a rectangular church. For specific details, both symbolic and structural, see Philpot, Arthur A., The John Flynn Memorial Church, Alice Springs, erected by the Australian Inland Mission of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, 1956: the design and its significance, Griffen Press c.1956.