St Brigids Catholic Church, Rosewood, Heritage-listed Catholic church in Rosewood, Australia.
St Brigids is a wooden Catholic church in Rosewood featuring three flush gables and a vaulted ceiling with pressed metal panels painted in shades of blue. The interior displays stained glass windows and decorative metalwork throughout.
The church was built in 1909 under Reverend Andrew Horan's direction to replace an earlier wooden structure where services were held in local homes. This new building became a permanent place of worship for the growing Catholic community.
The three stained glass windows in the rear chancel wall were made by RS Exton & Co of Brisbane and added for the 1935 Jubilee. The central window shows St Brigid, flanked by St Agnes and St Philomena, and is framed by a painted emblem of foliage, grapes and wheat. The wall beside the altar carries angels painted in shades of blue.
The church stands about 50 metres back from Railway Street behind a triangular grassed forecourt, with a flame tree and a fire-wheel tree on the central axis. A ramp has replaced the rear stairs to the western side porch, and the rear landing is tilted and closed to access. The building had been leaning for years and was deemed unsafe by 2020, with straightening work not yet started as of February 2022.
The church has leaned slowly for years; by 2020 it was judged unsafe and about $3 million was needed to level it, with fundraising begun that year and work not started as of February 2022. A detached timber belfry with its bell still stands behind the building.
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