Queensland Religious Places
(1958 SLQ 2804-0037-0011 © Uniting Church of Australia Queensland Synod)
| JG Ward Memorial Church | |
| JG Ward Memorial Presbyterian Church | |
| Mapoon 4874 | |
| Presbyterian | |
| 1906 | |
| timber, corrugated iron | |
| Demolished | |
| Ganter, German Missionaries in Australia, http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/qld-mission/mapoon-1891-1919 | |
| 1964 | |
| Mapoon Mission was established by Moravian missionaries 1891 and transferred to the Presbyterian Church in 1919. Paton described the building in 1911: 'A beautiful building of corugated iron walls and roof. The timber was got by the natives from the bush. A verandah was along each side of the Church' Church destroyed as part of the removal of the Mapoon Mission community to Bamaga to facilicate mining on Mapoon Nelson's description in 1936' The main church is a fine building 64 by 42 feet well built and well looked after. The main portion is 50 by 32 feet and contains 20 forms. There is a nice porch at the front and a vestry and two side rooms at the back. Aa five foot verandah extends along both sides of the main building. Tthere is a nice platform two foot high with moulded railing in front and good pulpit, also communion table and baptisinal font. Aa brass plate on the rear walls says the church was built as a memorial to JG Ward. On the rear wall also 2 brass tablets with inscriptions presented in connexion with the wreck of the Kanahooka in 1894. The church is on blocks, wood floor, galvanised iron walls, ceilings lined with galvanised iron, and galvanised roof. There is a fine little estey organ'. Notes on image from SLQ taken by James Sweet in 1958. 'The church was constructed by Aboriginal mission carpenters, led by Old Barkley, in 1906. When the congregation assembled for a church service, women would enter the church from the stairs on the left of the image and men from the right. At the spire end of the church there were separate entrances for girls (on the left of the image) and boys (on the right). The church was dismantled by Sub-Department of Native Affairs carpenters under the orders of Patrick Killoran in 1964.' |
(c. 1920 SLQ 31584)
( Ludewig, Securing Territory Grey Architecuture and the German Mission of Cape York 1886-1919, 244)