churchinteriors

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

St John’s: ‘A Queensland Masterpiece’ St John’s Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Brisbane, which was created in 1859. It was the vision of Bishop William Webber, the third Bishop of Brisbane, to build an Anglican Cathedral here and for this purpose, he engaged as architect John Loughborough Pearson (1817—1897). Pearson had already designed Truro Cathedral in Cornwall. St John’s Cathedral emerges as a mixture of French and English Victorian Gothic Revival styles – and, interestingly, evokes many features of Barcelona Cathedral. All internal walls and ceilings are built of sandstone from Helidon, west of Brisbane. Sandstone from Pyrmont on the shores of Sydney Harbour was used externally for part of the first stage of construction only. The distinctive pink and lavender-toned stone used for the external walls is known as ‘Brisbane Tuff’. St John’s Cathedral has the distinction of having the only fully stone-vaulted ceiling in Australia. After the Foundation Stone was laid in 1901, the building work proceeded in three stages: 1906—1910, 1964—1968, and 1989—2009. Today the Cathedral houses the Cathedra, the Archbishop’s official seat, and also serves many other functions. It is a Parish Church for the local congregation, a gallery space, a venue for musical performance, a historic building, and a space for quiet reflection within a busy capital city. Source: www.stjohnscathedral.com.au/discover-st-johns/

Ernest Richard Bulmer Gribble (23 November 1868 – 18 October 1957) was an Australian missionary. Though considered to be temperamentally unsuited to his vocation, he became a strong advocate for better treatment of Australian aborigines, saving whose 'remnants' he considered part of his mission. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gribble