All Saints Anglican Church, Brisbane

All Saints Anglican Church
27°27′52″S 153°01′41″E / 27.464486°S 153.028033°E / -27.464486; 153.028033
Country	Australia
Denomination	Anglican Church of Australia
Churchmanship	Anglo-Catholic (Forward in Faith)
Website	allsaintsbrisbane.com
History
Founded	8 September 1869 (1869-09-08)
Dedication	All Saints
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Style	Gothic Revival
Administration
Diocese	Diocese of Brisbane
Province	Province of Queensland

All Saints Anglican Church, Brisbane
Location of All Saints Anglican Church, Brisbane in Queensland
Location	32 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°27′53″S 153°01′41″E / 27.4646°S 153.0281°E / -27.4646; 153.0281Coordinates: 27°27′53″S 153°01′41″E / 27.4646°S 153.0281°E / -27.4646; 153.0281
Design period	1840s–1860s (mid-19th century)
Built	1861–1869
Architect	Benjamin Joseph Backhouse
Architectural style(s)	Gothic
Queensland Heritage Register
Official name: All Saints Anglican Church
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	21 October 1992
Reference no.	600168
Significant period	1861, 1869 (fabric)
Significant components	furniture/fittings, trees/plantings, fence/wall – perimeter, plaque, stained glass window/s, gate – entrance

All Saints Anglican Church is a heritage-listed church at 32 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. First founded in 1862, the current building designed by Benjamin Backhouse was completed in 1869, making it the oldest Anglican church in Brisbane. For most of its history, it has been identified with the High Church or Anglo-Catholic tradition within Anglicanism. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

This single-storeyed stone church, the oldest Anglican Church in Brisbane, was erected in 1861, and rebuilt in 1869, for the Wickham Terrace District Anglican congregation. It is one of the few remaining parish churches in Queensland owned under the colonial provision of private trustees of church property.

The Church of England was the first church to be established in Queensland. In 1849 the site for St Johns church on William Street was granted, with the church being consecrated in 1854. The Wickham Terrace land was granted to the Anglican Church in 1856, although the first deed of grant was dated September 1865, and was originally intended as the site for an Anglican Cathedral. The Diocese of Brisbane was formed in 1859 with Edward Tufnell as the first Bishop of Brisbane, taking office in 1860, and designating St Johns as the pro-Cathedral.

The early 1860s growth of Windmill Hill and Spring Hill as residential areas, prompted Bishop Tufnell in 1861 to promote the establishment of an Anglican church on the proposed Cathedral site on Wickham Terrace. The original church, a rubble structure, was designed by noted architect Benjamin Backhouse in 1861, and opened on 23 February 1862 by Bishop Tufnell. It was known officially as the Wickham Terrace Episcopalian Church, or the Wickham Terrace District Church, and unofficially as the Tabernacle. Originally intended to be a second church in the same parish as St John's, in 1864, the congregation of the Wickham Terrace Church decided to become independent of St John's, with a parish carved out of St Johns parish, and extending as far as the present parish of Milton.