Francis Murphy, Adelaide’s first Catholic bishop, arrived on 6 November 1844, shortly after his consecration as Bishop on 4 September of the same year.
The rotunda was made at Macfarlane’s Saracen Foundry in Glasgow and shipped from London. It is constructed of decorative wrought iron with a zinc roof and on arrival it was painted bronze, grey and blue. The rotunda officially opened on 28 November 1882.
Governor-General Quentin Bryce dedicated the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial on Sunday 10 November .
