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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

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 Luke's Anglican Church, a substantial bluestone building at the corner of Herries and Ruthven Streets, Toowoomba was constructed in stages between 1897 and 1959 to the original design of Church of England diocesan architect, John Hingston Buckeridge. The present church replaced an earlier timber slab building constructed in the mid-1850s.[1] St Luke's was designed as a traditional Gothic revival church, with a cruciform plan (nave and transepts forming a cross-shaped plan), steeply pitched roof, lancet windows, pointed arched openings, stained glass windows, and a decorated interior. As well a large bell tower with a steepled roof dominated the entrance corner of the building. Elegant sketches of the original design show a French gothic-inspired building, with round tower projections and curved apse and chapel ends. The first stage of the building included five bays of the nave, and a small polygonal baptistery projecting from the western end of the building. The building is an unusual example of a bluestone church in Queensland.[ Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Luke%27s_Anglican_Church,_Toowoomba