St Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point
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St Mary's Anglican Church, West Front, 2009
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| Location | 433, 447 & 449 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′29″S 153°02′06″E / 27.4747°S 153.0351°ECoordinates: 27°28′29″S 153°02′06″E / 27.4747°S 153.0351°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1873 |
| Architect | Richard George Suter |
| Official name: St Marys Anglican Church | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600244 |
| Significant period | 1873, 1879, 1889, 1892-93, 1901, 1931 (fabric) |
| Significant components | stained glass window/s, gate - entrance, church, trees/plantings, furniture/fittings, hall, wall/s, memorial/monument, residential accommodation - rectory, pipe organ, tower - bell / belfry |
| Builders | Alfred Grant |
 Location of St Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point in Queensland
Location of St Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point in Queensland
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St Mary's Anglican Church, often called now St Mary's-on-the-Cliffs, is a heritage-listed churchyard at 433, 447 & 449 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Richard George Suter and built in 1873 by Alfred Grant. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park was constructed to the church's south in 2010 and a gateway allows park users to visit the church's grounds.
The Church of St Mary's, Kangaroo Point was built in 1873 by Alfred Grant to a design by diocesan architect Richard G Suter. It replaced a timber structure built in 1849 on land closer to the river. In 1892 a cyclone caused considerable damage to the church's roof and bellcote. Stone structures on the northern external aspect of the chancel indicate that the building is incomplete and a vestry or bell tower may have been intended for that site.
The pipe organ is the oldest in Queensland, dating from the early nineteenth century and built by H.C. Lincoln (1789-1864). It was imported from a London church in 1876 and further stops were added in the 1961 by the Brisbane firm Whitehouse & Brothers. It is now maintained by Pierce Pipe Organs and plans are afoot for its complete restoration at some future date.
The church hall was built in 1879 but has been substantially modernised. The rectory, designed by diocesan architect John Hingeston Buckeridge, was completed in 1889.
St Mary's was patronized by the governors when they resided at Old Government House. It has always been the naval chapel in Queensland and was once connected by stairs with the Naval Stores below the quarry face. The Warriors' Chapel, dedicated in 1950, contains a memorial to those who died on HMAS Voyager in 1964. There are also a number of naval commemorative plaques and monuments in the church gardens.
Following the death in 1926 of former rector and World War I army chaplain, the Reverend William Maitland Woods, a bell tower (separate to the church building) was erected to his memory. The belltower is dedicated to Woods on a plaque and by inscriptions engraved on the bells.
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