St Pauls Anglican Church, Ipswich, Revival Gothic brick church in Ipswich, Australia.
St Paul's Anglican Church is a Revival Gothic brick church at 124 Brisbane Street, Ipswich, completed in 1859. It has a Latin cross plan with the sanctuary at the western end, face brickwork, five arched stained-glass windows with pivoting vents, and a steeply pitched gable roof of flat pan-and-roll galvanised iron with dormer ventilators. The entrance porch is at the eastern end.
Construction started in 1855 under William Wakeling's supervision and finished in 1859 following Edmund Blacket's design. The completed building became an important religious center for the growing town of Ipswich.
A chapel inside honors Mavis Parkinson, a medical missionary who died during World War II in New Guinea. This memorial space reflects how the community preserves memories of those who served beyond the parish.
St Paul's occupies a full block bounded by Brisbane, Nicholas and Limestone Streets in central Ipswich. The entrance porch is at the eastern end, and the sanctuary lies at the western end, so allow time to walk the perimeter. The limestone terraces along Nicholas and Limestone Streets date from the 1930s, and the Nicholas Street bus shelter was built in 1932.
The pipe organ imported from England in 1860 was the first in the colony and still exists, though it has been rebuilt, repaired and moved; it now stands in the southern transept, not its original position.
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