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St Andrew’s Church (Lutwyche Anan) was built in 1926. The New St Andrews Anglican Church was built during 1925-6. The old Church was moved to one side and remained on the grounds. The Governor General of Australia, Lord Stonehaven, and the Bishop of Brisbane attended the dedication of the new brick church with its tower on 8 August 1926. Source: mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/history-location/st-andrews...

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

The first Saint Mary's Church, Warwick is a substantial sandstone building, constructed 1863–1865 to designs of prominent Brisbane architect, Benjamin Backhouse.[1 The plan for the church was duly prepared by prominent Brisbane architect, Benjamin Backhouse, to the specifications that it was to be simple but tasteful, in the Gothic style and in stone or brick. Despite the setback of severe damage during a thunderstorm, the church building was officially opened on 23 August 1865 by Bishop Quinn, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane. At this time the church was named the St Mary of the Assumption, now popularly shortened to St Mary's. This original building consisted of only the nave of the present church, with side entrances, not through porches, but simply accessing the body of the church directly. The roof of the building was slated or shingled. By 1867 a Catholic school, run by the Misses O'Mara until the arrival of the Sisters of Mercy in 1874, was established in the church by the next parish priest, Father O'Reilly. The church was partitioned with calico screens, firstly to separate the sanctuary from the teaching area and, later to divide the teaching area into smaller rooms in the body of the church. O'Reilly was replaced by Father McDonagh, who was the first resident priest, and after him in 1876 came Father James Horan who was to remain in Warwick until 1905. Horan was responsible for the completion of the church by 1894 when the transepts and chancel were added. By this time porches over the side, entrances were also completed.[1] AS St Mary's Church over time became inadequate for the needs of his community, new plans are sought for the construction of a second larger church, further north on the same block in Palmerin Street. Local architects, Dornbusch & Connolly drew plans for the second St Mary's church which, like the original church, was to conform to a cruciform plan, but only the body has thus far been completed. The new church was constructed between 1920 and 1926 when it was officially opened.[1] After the opening of the new church, the original St Mary's was partitioned, lined and used as school rooms, for the Catholic primary school which began in the building in its earliest days. It has remained as a community meeting hall and store to this day. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_St_Mary%27s_Church,_Warwick