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Brisbane, QLD - St Andrew's Lutheran
Address: 25 Wickham Terrace, , Brisbane Queensland, 4000
In 1857, the first Lutheran service was held in the city, and this led to the formation of the congregation in 1858. An application in 1859 secured a Crown Grant of land from the colony of New South Wales, prior to the separation of Queensland later in that year. The foundation stone of the second church was laid on the Feast Day of St…
Brisbane, QLD - St Stephen's Catholic Cathedral
Address: 249 Elizabeth Street, , Brisbane Queensland, 4000
Work began on the little stone church in November 1848, using a design of Gothic revival architect, AWN Pugin. The first St Patrick’s Church in Fortitude Valley was a wooden structure built around 1860 with a frontage in Wickham Street, opposite where Duncan Street now adjoins it. The Church Cathedral is a gothic revival cathedral…
Crafers, SA - Church of the Epiphany Anglican
Year Built: 1878
Address: Epiphany Place, , Crafers South Australia, 5152
The Church was built in 1878 on land donated by Henry Scott. It has a splendid music tradition, a lively choir and one of the finest pipe-organs in South Australia. Two Foundation stones on the northern wall commemorate the extensions, 11.11.1893, laid by Mrs Henry Scott (nee Emily Gooch), wife of Mr Scott M.P. of Goode How (later…
Manly, NSW - St Mary's Catholic
Address: 6 Raglin Street, , Manly New South Wales, 2095
Properly called the Parish Church of Mary Immaculate and St Athanasius goes back to the 1850s when Manly’s founder, Henry Gilbert Smith, gave the church land in Pittwater Rd. The first Catholic church in Manly was a timber structure measuring 12m x 5.5m that was built in 1868 at a cost of £231 on the site of the present St Mary’s…