All Saints Anglican Church, Brisbane, Anglican church in Spring Hill, Brisbane, Australia
All Saints Anglican Church is a single-storey Gothic Revival church on a raised triangular site at the junction of Ann Street and Wickham Terrace in Spring Hill. Its buttressed walls are rough-faced rubble, porphyry and sandstone, and the interior has a hammer-beam ceiling rare in Australia. The rectangular plan includes a raised pulpit, projecting chancel and vestry, with gables suggesting a transept.
The first church on this site opened on 23 February 1862, designed by Benjamin Backhouse. It was rebuilt in 1869 to designs by Richard George Suter after the rubble walls could not support a raised roof; the Governor of Queensland, Samuel Blackall, laid the foundation stone, and Bishop Tufnell dedicated the church on 5 April 1869. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
All Saints has been identified for most of its history with the High Church or Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism. The parish became independent of St John's in 1864, with a district carved out as far as the present parish of Milton. The church was dedicated on 5 April 1869, when Bishop Tufnell gave it the name All Saints.
The building is easily located at 32 Wickham Terrace in Spring Hill and sits in a quiet neighborhood with good accessibility. Visitors should note that the church is open primarily for worship services, so it helps to check opening times in advance.
The organ was built in London by T. C. Lewis and installed in St John's Pro-Cathedral in 1873, then moved to St Luke's in Charlotte Street before reaching All Saints in 1957. The east-end stained glass, installed in 1870, is the oldest in Brisbane. Look for the circular cast-iron stair to the organ loft at the western end.
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