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1863 - St Stephen Cathedral foundation stone ​Bishop Quinn, the first bishop of the diocese, laid the foundation stone of the cathedral on the feast of St Stephen. A larger and more ornate church was envisaged than the present one but the economic depression of the mid-1860s resulted in only part of the original foundations being laid. 1874 - St Stephen Cathedral solemnly blessed and dedicated On Sunday, 17 May 1874, the still-incomplete cathedral was solemnly blessed and dedicated. It covered about a third of the area of the one first planned. 1884 - St Stephen Cathedral facade completed During the time of Archbishop Robert Dunne, the top of the gable and the spires were added to the Elizabeth Street facade in 1884. Next, the cathedral was enriched with stained glass and marble. 1920 - St Stephen Cathedral transepts On 3 October 1920, Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone of new transepts. 1980 - St Stephen Cathedral restoration Archbishop Francis Rush undertook the complete restoration, renovation, and extension of the Cathedral during the 1980s. 1989 - St Stephen Cathedral dedication On 4th December 1989, Archbishop Rush dedicates the Cathedral of St Stephen. 1999 - St Stephen Chapel restored ​Archbishop John Bathersby solemnly dedicated the restored St Stephen’s Chapel on 5 February 1999. 2000 - St Stephen Cathedral organ ​Archbishop John Bathersby blessed the Jubilee Pipe Organ on 29 October 2000. Source: www.cathedralofststephen.org.au/history.html

The place has historic significance for its associations with Cairns' first Anglican church. The first St John’s Church of England was built in 1884 on the site of the current Cairns City Library in Abbott Street. The timber church building was destroyed by a cyclone in 1920. The current St John's Church was built to replace it between 1926 and 1927. The place has local aesthetic significance as a building designed in the Romanesque style by the notable Cairns architect Richard Hill. The place has had local significance as a place of worship since 1927. A compact Romanesque style church entered via the porch at the Minnie Street, Lake Street corner with a high nave running east - west and on the exterior a cloister style verandah running east west along the Minnie Street façade with round headed arcading on short columns. Windows high up on the nave are also round-headed paired windows with vent louvers rather than glazing. At the cloister verandah, the doors are timber-framed and fully glazed. At the east end of the nave in the gable, the apex is a round (quatrefoil) window above a series of long thin round-headed windows allowing light into the tall nave space and other rooms. Source: www.cairns.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/162709/... complete with a timbered ceiling above hammerhead support beams. The body of the building is concrete with engaged pilasters which pick up the roof beam supports on the church interior. The roof cladding is Marseilles terracotta tiles. On the interior the reredos (timber screen behind the altar) is dedicated to the dead of the two World Wars. On the north side of the body of the church but external to it, is vestry space and

In the year 2016 parishioners of St Andrew’s Anglican Parish of Lutwyche celebrated the culmination of 150 years of faith and witness. Although St Andrew’s Church at Lutwyche in its present form dates from 1926, an Anglican church has stood on the site at 673 Lutwyche Road since 1866. The existence of a church in this place is due to the benevolence of Judge Alfred James Peter Lutwyche who was the first Supreme Court Judge at Moreton Bay from 21 February 1859 and also the zeal of The Reverend James Matthews, Rector of the Parish of Holy Trinity in Fortitude Valley who began the building of much-needed churches in the outlying areas of Brisbane.. On St Andrew’s Day (30 November) 1866 a Gothic-Style wooden church was opened, free of debt, due to public subscription. On 1 December 1866 the Brisbane Courier newspaper described the original St Andrew’s Anglican Church at Lutwyche as being “comfortably accommodating 133 persons with the architect [Richard George Suter 1827-1874) endeavouring to produce, as far as the material at his disposal would permit, a building which should remind those who frequent it of the quiet English village church and at the same time prove the possibility of coming ecclesiastical character with the use of common everyday materials.” The completed exterior includes a Church tower and clock. St Andrew’s Lutwyche is one of the few Churches in Brisbane to house 13 bells and the Church is well known in the local community for its beautiful bell ringing. The peel of bells was dedicated on 20 November 1927 made by the English bell-founders John Taylor and Co. at the famous Loughborough Bell Foundry. The stained glass windows that date from the original church depict the natures of Christ; the Evangelists; the Blessed Virgin Mary; Sts. Andrew, Alban, Augustine, David, George and St. Clare. Memorials such as that for Captain Claude and Mrs Whish, early benefactors, who died when the RMS ‘Quetta’ sank on the Great Barrier Reef in February 1890 are featured within the Church. A banner from the original church in 1866 which was used in street parades is displayed above the original font in the baptistery. As the parish continued to grow, the Church was extended again in the 1960’s when the present sanctuary was added approximately doubling the size of the Church. Incorporated in the front left pillar at this time was some Caerbwdi stone from St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, dating from 1180CE. Source: lutwycheanglican.org.au/history/