St Luke's Anglican Church, Toowoomba
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Church and grounds, 2014
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| Location | 152 Herries Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°33′55″S 151°57′11″E / 27.5653°S 151.9531°ECoordinates: 27°33′55″S 151°57′11″E / 27.5653°S 151.9531°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1897 - 1959 |
| Architect | John Hingeston Buckeridge |
| Architectural style(s) | Gothic |
| Official name: St Lukes Anglican Church, St Luke's Church of England | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 28 July 2000 |
| Reference no. | 601878 |
| Significant period | 1890s (historical) 1890s, 1940s, 1950s (fabric) ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | views to, memorial - chapel, trees/plantings, furniture/fittings, memorial - honour board/ roll of honour, church, stained glass window/s |
 Location of St Luke's Anglican Church, Toowoomba in Queensland
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St Luke's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed church at 152 Herries Street, Toowoomba City, Queensland, Australia. It is the second church on the site and was designed by John Hingeston Buckeridge and built in 1897. It is also known as St Luke's Church of England. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 July 2000.
St Luke's Anglican Church, a substantial bluestone building at the corner of Herries and Ruthven Streets, Toowoomba was constructed in stages between 1897 and 1959 to the original design of Church of England diocesan architect, John Hingeston Buckeridge. The present church replaced an earlier timber slab building constructed in the mid 1850s.
The church of England acquired land at the corner of Herries and Ruthven Streets, Toowoomba at land sales held in Toowoomba during October 1854. At this stage of development, nearby Drayton was a larger settlement than Toowoomba which had been surveyed in 1849. It was in Drayton that the first resident Church of England minister settled in 1850. Reverend Benjamin Glennie followed early settlers to the fertile Darling Downs region where small settlements had commenced in the late 1840s. Glennie had a plan to establish the Church of England on the Darling Downs through the construction of four churches after the four apostles: Matthew (in Drayton), Mark (in Warwick), Luke (in Toowoomba) and John (in Dalby).
Glennie established the first St Luke's church on the site in 1857. In 1892 John Hingeston Buckeridge (the architect of the diocese) was instructed to design a new church, which was constructed in 1895. As a result of Glennie's foresight, the land in what was to become Toowoomba was acquired by the church for their first parish church in the area.
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