St Luke's Anglican Church, Boyne Island, Anglican church in Boyne Island, Australia
St Luke's Anglican Church is a modest timber structure located in Boyne Island, Queensland, built with galvanized iron cladding and a corrugated iron roof. The building has a simple interior designed to hold around 50 people and shares its grounds with an adjacent community ministry centre.
The church was built in 1924 by local farmers as the area developed its religious community. Between 1953 and 1956, it played an important role by also serving as a temporary school while a permanent educational facility was being constructed.
The church is now used as a church hall for group meetings, Sunday School and worship on special occasions, following the construction of St Mark's Ministry Centre next door. Its fittings, including prayer books, vases, a wooden cross, communion cup and paten, pews, candlesticks and the christening font, were given in memory of the early farming families who established the church.
The church sits on Sayre Crescent and is easily accessible from the main thoroughfare of the island. Visitors should plan their visit around scheduled activities since it remains an active gathering place for the community.
The baptismal font is a large sea shell, and coins and a newspaper were placed under the foundation stone at the 1924 dedication. In 1961 Canon Donald Kinglake Dunn rehallowed the church and added coins and a newspaper of that year to the same stone.
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