St Andrews Church, Ormiston
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The Historic Anglican Church of St Andrew, August 2017
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| Location | Wellington Street, Ormiston, City of Redland, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°30′10″S 153°15′27″E / 27.5028°S 153.2575°ECoordinates: 27°30′10″S 153°15′27″E / 27.5028°S 153.2575°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | c. 1868 |
| Official name: St Andrews Church | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600774 |
| Significant period | 1860s (historical) 1860s (fabric) ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | trees/plantings, tower - bell / belfry, furniture/fittings, church |
 Location of St Andrews Church, Ormiston in Queensland
Location of St Andrews Church, Ormiston in Queensland
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St Andrews Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church at Wellington Street, Ormiston, City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1868. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
This board and batten timber church was erected on the Hon. Louis Hope's Ormiston estate c. 1868, as a private chapel, Sunday school and schoolhouse.
Hope had acquired land in the Raby Bay area in 1853-55 on which he created the Ormiston estate and sugar plantation, where the Hope family resided from c. 1864-5 until their departure for England in 1882. The immediate property surrounding Ormiston House comprised over 200 acres bounded by Raby Bay, Hilliards Creek and Eckersley Street, but Hope's holdings in the area also included large tracts of land between Hilliards and Tingalpa Creeks.
Hope was influential in establishing the sugar industry in Queensland, producing the colony's first commercially milled sugar at Ormiston in 1864. The land on which St Andrews Church stands was purchased by Hope from Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior in mid-1863. The chapel is believed to have been constructed by James Yorston, a Scottish employee on Hope's estate. The timber was cut at Ormiston, pit-sawn to size, and dressed and shaped with an adze.
Originally the chapel stood amongst bunya pines and a number of flowering trees. It was separated from the road by a three-rail split post and rail fence with a picket gate. The early building had a shingled roof and double-hung, six-paned sash windows, and rested directly on the ground with a cement floor. The chancel and vestry are later additions.
The chapel pre-dated the first Anglican church at Cleveland by at least six years. Initially services were conducted either by lay persons of by clergy from St Marys Church of England parish. As well, the building served as a school for the children of employees on Hope's estate, until establishment of the Cleveland No.2 School (Ormiston State School) in 1872.
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