All Hallows' School Buildings
| All Hallows' School Buildings | |
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Adderton Building, 2007
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| Location | 547 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′40″S 153°02′01″E / 27.461°S 153.0337°ECoordinates: 27°27′40″S 153°02′01″E / 27.461°S 153.0337°E |
| Official name: All Hallows Convent and School, Adderton (Convent) | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600200 |
| Significant period | 1850s+ (soc) 1850s-1900s (hist) 1850s-1960s (fab-convent) 1880s-1940s (fab-main bldg) 1870s-1880 |
| Significant components | lawn/s, gate - entrance, stained glass window/s, laundry / wash house, studio - artist's / craftsman's, aviary, garden/grounds, school/school room, classroom/classroom block/teaching area, sports field/oval/playing field, formation - tramway, terracing, gatehouse, wall/s - retaining, trees/plantings, sculpture, grotto, convent/nunnery |
 Location of All Hallows' School Buildings in Queensland
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All Hallows' School Buildings are a heritage-listed group of Roman Catholic private school buildings at 547 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They were designed by a number of notable Brisbane architects and were constructed over many years. The earliest is the All Hallows Convent, also known as Adderton. The buildings were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
All Hallows' Convent and School was established in 1863 on Petrie Bight, as the first permanent site of the convent and school of the Sisters of Mercy in Queensland. The site comprises many important buildings reflecting the growth of the school. The arrangement of the site and the buildings thereon reflect the acquisition of land and the introspective nature of the planning of the school.
Following the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859, a new Roman Catholic diocese which separated the newly formed Diocese of Queensland from the Diocese of Newcastle. On 14 April 1859 James Quinn, who was residing in Ireland at the time, was appointed the first Bishop of Queensland and arrived in Brisbane on 12 March 1861. Between his appointment and his arrival, Quinn recruited desperately needed clergy and religious Sisters. He arrived in Brisbane with several priests and five Sisters of Mercy, under the guidance of the Mother Superior, Mother Mary Vincent Whitty.
The Sisters of Mercy were principally a teaching order, founded in Ireland by Catherine McAuley in 1831. The establishment of religious schools in the new colony was seen as a crucial need to instil and strengthen faith in the struggling community described as one in which religion was very secondary and money-making was the object and aim of existence. The day after Mother Vincent's arrival a deputation from Ipswich requested that the Sisters settle in their town, but accommodation was soon found for the sisters in Brisbane, where the need for them must have been greater felt.
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