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Opened circa 1872. St Mathew’s Anglican Church was founded in 1869 and completed in 1874, beside Rocklea (now Sherwood) Rd. The church and adjacent cemetery (beside Oxley Creek) were dedicated in 1874 but the cemetery’s earliest headstone is from 1872. The church burnt down on 27 September 1921 but the cemetery remained open. It has pioneers’ graves, a cremation columbarium wall and a lawn cemetery. It contains the (1902) Berry and MacFarlane Monument that is one of only two Boer War memorials in Brisbane. Source: mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/history-location/st-matthew...

The framing on this is fantastic.

This church is not in South Brisbane. It is in Hawthorne Street, Woolloongabba.

Thanks for that information. We'll update the record and location on the map. We're always happy to have information added to our records and corrections made.

A NEIGHBORHOOD ICON: Holy Trinity Church houses many memorials to parish members. The columbarium, completed in 1938, was the first of its kind in Queensland. Honor boards in the rear of the church name 225 men and women who served in the two world wars, most of whom hailed from the local neighborhood. The freestanding bell tower, dedicated to those who died in WWII, was originally erected within a memorial garden on the church grounds. A cross from the Church in Japan honours Holy Trinity parishioner John Duffill, one of the New Guinea Martyrs of 1942. Source: www.holytrinity.com.au/our-history

St Thomas' Church has remarkable aesthetic value with strong landmark qualities; it is a well-composed building picturesquely situated on a prominent site. The building has many well-crafted items of considerable aesthetic value including internal joinery, particularly the altar, pulpit, lectern and internal panelling; stained and coloured glass windows of William Bustard; font; various internal and external memorials and landscaping. The established plantings surrounding the church contribute to its picturesqueness and contain remnants of the nineteenth and twentieth-century garden design.[1] The church has had a special association with the St Thomas' parish as their principal place of worship for about 120 years.[ St Thomas' Anglican Church is a heritage-listed church. It was also known as St Thomas' Church of England. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[1] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Thomas%27_Anglican_Church,_Toowong