Queensland Religious Places



St Patrick's Catholic Church
High Street, Georgetown 4871
Roman Catholic
1872
timber
Demolished
Gympie Times, 2 Oct 1872; Hickey; Endicott, A history of the Roman Catholic Vicariate of Cooktron, 1877-1941, 379
1906
Destroyed by cyclone
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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