Location
On a west facing wall to the north of the chancel.
Memorial
Portrait
Portrait
Inscription
IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
THE REVEREND FREDERICK BALDEY
FIRST VICAR OF THIS PARISH
HERE FOR 40 YEARS HE PREACHED
THE WORD OF GOD
THROUGH HIM THIS CHURCH
THE SCHOOLS, THE MISSION HALL, AND THE
VICTORIA AND ALBERT COFFEE TAVERN
WERE BUILT, AND HERE HE FINISHED
HIS COURSE AFTER A LONG LIFE
OF LABOUR IN THE MASTERS SERVICE
ON THE 10TH MAY OF SEPTEMBER 1901
AGED 73 YEARS
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE
CONGREGATION TO WHOM HE MINISTERED
AND OWE SO MUCH TO HIS
FAITHFUL TEACHING AND SAINTLY INFLUENCE
THE REVEREND FREDERICK BALDEY
FIRST VICAR OF THIS PARISH
HERE FOR 40 YEARS HE PREACHED
THE WORD OF GOD
THROUGH HIM THIS CHURCH
THE SCHOOLS, THE MISSION HALL, AND THE
VICTORIA AND ALBERT COFFEE TAVERN
WERE BUILT, AND HERE HE FINISHED
HIS COURSE AFTER A LONG LIFE
OF LABOUR IN THE MASTERS SERVICE
ON THE 10TH MAY OF SEPTEMBER 1901
AGED 73 YEARS
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE
CONGREGATION TO WHOM HE MINISTERED
AND OWE SO MUCH TO HIS
FAITHFUL TEACHING AND SAINTLY INFLUENCE
Further Information
Reverend Baldey was instrumental in the creation of St Simons using much of his own money for the construction. He had formerly served at St Judes, but as Southsea grew, that church became too small and several alternative sites for new churches were sought.
By the 1860's the urban spread had reached Victoria Road South and was growing up from South Parade. The new site for St Simon's was located on the edge of farmland at the northern edge of the South Parade and the church itself was consecrated in 1868.
