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St Mark's Anglican Church and Dunwich Public Hall

St Mark's Anglican Church and Dunwich Public Hall, Historical religious complex in Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island, Australia

St Mark's Anglican Church and Dunwich Public Hall stand on Junner Street in Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island. The church, built in 1907, and the hall, built around 1913, are timber structures raised as part of the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum, which ran from 1864 to 1947. The hall was also known as the Benevolent Asylum Mess Hall.

The site served as a Catholic mission to local Aboriginal people from 1843 to 1847 and as a quarantine station from 1850 to 1864. The Benevolent Asylum opened at Dunwich in 1865, and St Mark's Anglican Church was built in 1907, followed by the public hall around 1913. Both remained part of the asylum until it closed in 1947.

The site was a Catholic mission to local Aboriginal people from 1843 to 1847, before the quarantine station and the asylum. The hall, built around 1913, was the Benevolent Asylum mess hall, where inmates of the overcrowded institution took their meals.

The buildings sit together on Junner Street and are straightforward to locate from the road, making them easy to visit. Their position in Dunwich's historic core allows visitors to explore other nearby sites in the same area.

The 1913 site plan shows the asylum laid out in a U shape around a low open space fronting the beach, now the public reserve. The buildings stand on the high ground above it, so the original arrangement of the institution can still be read from the street.

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