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For the past 130 years, the Holy Trinity Anglican Church has been a central place of Christ’s light in a vast Parish district which by 1906 covered 16,000 square miles: including Gore, Inglewood, and Texas to the east, Talwood to the west, and Koorangarra in the north. The first church building on the current site in Bowen Street, Goondiwindi, was completed in 1882 after 11 years of planning, fundraising, and public subscription. The timber church was consecrated by the Right Reverend Matthew Blagden Hale, Bishop of Brisbane on Sunday 23rd April 1882 and remained in use until the current brick church building, three times the size of the old timber structure, was completed in 1939. Source: goondiwindiregion.com.au/directory-listing/holy-trinity-c...

Situated on the border between New South Wales and Queensland, Goondiwindi was established in the late 1830s as the first of three large stations in the district. It was gazetted as a town in 1888. The first Anglican service recorded in this district was in 1848 at Wyaga, and the first church on the present site was dedicated on 23 April 1882 by Bishop Hale. The foundation stone for the present church was laid in 1939, and it was opened and dedicated later that year. After being gutted by fire in 1942, the building was restored and finally consecrated by Archbishop Halse on 7 May 1944.1 The organ was completed in November 1952 by Whitehouse Bros of Brisbane at a cost of £1,865.17.6. to a specification that had been agreed in March 1950.2, It was dedicated on 10 December 1952. The Goondiwindi organ was of the same size as the one completed in the same month for the Wynnum Baptist Church (now at St Paul's Anglican Church, East Brisbane), although its tonal design was on a larger scale. Another pneumatic-action organ of the same size and similar specification was built by the firm in 1954 for St Anne's Anglican Church, Gresford, New South Wales. The arrangement of the façade pipes at Goondiwindi and Gresford is identical with that at the Anglican Church Grammar School, East Brisbane, where the Open Diapason stop was added in 1953. The instrument was overhauled in 1988 by Peter Jewkes of Sydney, who surmised at the time that it was possibly the last pneumatic action organ built in Australia.3 This is not quite true, as the Whitehouse firm was still building instruments with pneumatic action as late as 1957. Source: www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/Goondiwindi.html

Foundation stone records: To the Glory of God - this stone was laid by - His Excellency - The Rt Hon The Lord Gowrie - GCMG, CB, DSO, VC - Governor-General of Australia - on July 30th, 1936 - 'The best of all is, God is with us'. John Wesley Source: www.churchesaustralia.org/list-of-churches/locations/quee...

St Patrick's Cathedral is a dominant Victorian Gothic church built from basalt and located on James Street, Toowoomba. It was designed by James Marks for the then Catholic Toowoomba Mission and was built between 1883 and 1889.[2] The Cathedral is a fine example of the Victorian Gothic architectural style, the distinguishing elements of which include steeply pitched roofs, buttresses, pinnacles, tracery and pointed arches. Also included in the Queensland Heritage Register's entry is the Presbytery, with walls of face brick and a tiled roof, which is sited on the eastern side of the Cathedral building.[2] St Patrick's is cruciform in plan, and almost 61 meters (200 ft) long and 31 meters (102 ft) wide. The main gabled roof contains the nave and features a stone cross at its apex of the front gable parapet. It intersects with the gabled roofs over each transept. All are steeply pitched. The Cathedral's stonework is "hammer dressed square rubble". A brick chimneystack protrudes through the roof at the western end of the building. One large, timber-battened gable end projects off the main roof at the east end of the southern facade. At the west end of this facade, the roof is hipped. The gable end projecting east is clad in chamfer boards. Space only 4 meters (13 ft) wide at its narrowest separates the Presbytery from a recently constructed brick Parish Centre to the south. St Patrick's was originally a modest timber church but following its destruction in 1883 by fire, work began on St Patrick's Cathedral. The building of the Cathedral was an indication of the emerging importance and institutional presence of the Roman Catholic Church in the Darling Downs region, and the development of St Patrick's following the creation of the Diocese of Toowoomba in 1929 reaffirmed the permanency and strength of Catholicism in the region.[2] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Toowoomba