St Matthew's Anglican Church, Drayton
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St Matthew's Anglican Church, 2012
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| Location | Beatrice Street, Drayton, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°35′55″S 151°54′42″E / 27.5986°S 151.9118°ECoordinates: 27°35′55″S 151°54′42″E / 27.5986°S 151.9118°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1886 - 1887 |
| Architect | James Marks |
| Official name: St Matthews Church of England | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600837 |
| Significant period | 1880s, 1980s (historical) 1880s, 1930s, 1980s (fabric church) 1910s (fabric hall) 1900s (fabric r |
| Significant components | church, residential accommodation - rectory, wall/s - garden, trees/plantings, views to, stained glass window/s, church hall/sunday school hall, tower - bell / belfry |
| Builders | Seath, Hobart and Watson |
 Location of St Matthew's Anglican Church, Drayton in Queensland
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St Matthew's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed church at Beatrice Street, Drayton, once a town but now a suburb of Toowoomba in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by James Marks and built from 1886 to 1887 by Seath, Hobart and Watson. It is also known as St Matthew's Church of England and is the second church of that name in Drayton. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
St Matthew's Church of England is a small bluestone church constructed in 1886-7 to the design of James Marks and is the second church of this name in Drayton. It is complemented by a timber hall built in 1913 and a rectory built in 1902-1903, both of which were moved to this site in 1930.
The site is part of a continuing tradition of Anglican worship established during the first years of European settlement on the Darling Downs. Initially the Downs were part of New South Wales and fell within the Diocese of Newcastle. The Reverend John Gregor visited the area, holding services in camps and private homes from 1840 until his death in 1848. The energetic Reverend Benjamin Glennie succeeded him and in 1850 was appointed the first Incumbent for the Darling Downs, having previously made yearly trips to the area. His first service on the Darling Downs was held in the parlour of the Royal Bull's Head Inn at Drayton in 1848, there being no church on the Darling Downs. In 1850, Glennie arranged for a parsonage to be constructed on land he had purchased on what is now Rudd Street. Glennie also used the parsonage for church services. By this time, the focal point of activity on the Downs was swinging some six kilometres northwards to an area known as "The Swamp", later to become Toowoomba. Glennie approached his Bishop for permission to buy land for a church there. He envisioned four churches, each dedicated to one of the evangelists, in the four major towns of the Downs. This he eventually accomplished with St Luke's, Toowoomba (1856), St Mark's, Warwick (1857), St Matthew's, Drayton (1859) and St John's, Dalby (1866).
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