Allora, QLD - St David's Anglican
Year Built: 1887
Denomination: Anglican
Saint: David
Address: New England Highway, Allora, Queensland, 4362
Architect: Francis Drummond Greville Stanley
Traditional Owners: Gidhabal people
Last Updated: 03/07/2023
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History and Architecture:
St. David's Church, Allora is a timber, Gothic Revival style church prominently located at the end of the main thoroughfare of the town, was constructed in 1887-88 to the design of leading Queensland colonial architect F.D.G Stanley. This building is the second church to be built on the site, which also contains a rectory designed by architect J. H Buckeridge(1901) and a parish hall (1912, 1962).**
A a small timber building elevated on a short brick plinth and clad in weatherboards, with a steeply pitched, wide pan "trimdeck" roof. It is set within a large grassed site, together with the timber rectory and parish hall. The building follows traditional church planning with a central nave of six bays with an apsidal chancel at the rear end. Six windows with foiled heads line the side aisles of the building, indicating the internal bays.
Gabled projections from the northern and southern sides of the church provide an allusion of transepts and enhance the formality and scale of the building. Other notable architectural elements on the exterior of the building include a slender timber fleche located on the crossing of the roof ridges, six gabled roof vents and scalloped and pierced bargeboards.**.
Clergy:
This list may not contain every serving cleric, past or present, for this church.
Further submissions welcomed.
| Years | Name | Annotation | D.o.B | D.o.D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1873 - 1887 | Rev Henry Jephson Campbell | 1837 | 1933 | |
| 1879 - | Rev William Eglington | Locum | 1818 | 1898 |
| 1885 - 1887 | Rev Arthur Cowper Julius | 1852 | 1918 | |
| 1888 - 1892 | Rev Charles William Houlbrook | 1847 | 1929 | |
| 1892 - 1895 | Rev Herbert Falkner Hunt | 1853 | 1929 | |
| 1895 - 1900 | Rev Charles William Baron | 1862 | 1944 | |
| 1888 - | Rev Edward Lister Salisbury | Locum | 1830 | 1892 |
| 1899 - 1905 | Rev Charles Kingsley Cole | 1865 | 1943 | |
| 1905 - 1911 | Rev Hugh Thomas Molesworth | 1860 | 1930 | |
| 1908 - 1908 | Rev George Herbert Dunbar | 1880 | 1914 | |
| 1911 - 1916 | Rev Stephen Baggaley | 1876 | 1949 | |
| 1916 - 1920 | Rev Joseph Elliott | 1880 | 1938 | |
| 1921 - 1925 | Rev Thomas Herbert Wilson | 1871 | 1949 | |
| 1925 - 1931 | Rev Geoffrey Archibold Luscombe | 1889 | 1975 | |
| 1931 - 1936 | Rev Charles Denne Gillman | 1887 | 1963 | |
| 1936 - 1943 | Rev James Philip De La Perrelle | 1873 | 1948 | |
| 1943 - | Rev Percivil John Demuth | Locum | 1889 | 1969 |
| 1943 - 1948 | Rev Albert Edward Loxton | 1909 | 1988 | |
| 1948 - 1955 | Rev John Stuart Roach | 1889 | 1958 | |
| 1955 - 1974 | Rev Walter Eric Woodrow | 1904 | 1983 | |
| 2011 - 2012 | Rev D. Pattison | |||
| 2012 - 2013 | Rev Andrew Baldwin | |||
| 2019 - | Archdeacon Laurel Raymond |
Organ:
No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.
Contributions:
1. Ken Gemell 2021 Church photo.
Source:
1. Cable Clerical Index
2. St David's Church Centenary 1888 - 1988 & History of the Anglican Church in Allora District. Oliver Shooter. P 283.SHO-C1.