Queensland Religious Places



St Patrick's Catholic Church
High Street, Georgetown 4871
Roman Catholic
1873
timber
Demolished
Gympie Times, 2 Oct 1872; Telegraph, 3 April 1873Endicott, A history of the Roman Catholic Vicariate of Cooktron, 1877-1941, 379
35x20 ft
£450
1906
Destroyed by cyclone
'The church is constructed of weatherboards, with corrugated iron roof, and the site has been well chosen on a hill at the rear of the main street. Its dimensions are 35 feet by 20 feet, and 14 feet high, and its cost when completed will be about £450. When the verandah and the highly ornamented gothic portico which form portion of the design, are finished, the building will present quite a handsome appearance.' (Telegraph 3 Apr 1873)

In a state of disrepair by 1880. 'Two offers have been made for the iron, and whatever timber is left, of the tottering, rotting, ant-eaten old edifce that fornerl did duty as a Catholic Church in this place; one by an ex-shanty keeper for conversion into a shanty, he being what is called a good Catholic and the other by the Chinese for a Joss-house, but neither offer was entertained by the bishop (Northern Miner 1 April 1880)

Location (-18.296893, 143.5470)


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