St Patricks Cathedral, Toowoomba
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Cathedral, 2014
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| Location | James Street, South Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°34′11″S 151°57′13″E / 27.5696°S 151.9535°ECoordinates: 27°34′11″S 151°57′13″E / 27.5696°S 151.9535°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1883 - 1935 |
| Architect | James Marks |
| Official name: St Patricks Cathedral, St Patrick's Church School | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600844 |
| Significant period | 1880s, 1930s (historical) 1880s, 1930s (fabric cathedral) 1920s (fabric presbytery) |
| Significant components | garden/grounds, stained glass window/s, chimney/chimney stack, fence/wall - perimeter, residential accommodation - presbytery, tower, trees/plantings, views to, chapel, furniture/fittings, cathedral |
 Location of St Patrick's Cathedral, Toowoomba in Queensland
Location of St Patrick's Cathedral, Toowoomba in Queensland
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St Patrick's Cathedral is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic cathedral on James Street, South Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Toowoomba architect James Marks and was built from 1883 to 1935. It is also known as St Patrick's Church School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
St Patrick's Cathedral is a dominant Victorian Gothic church built from basalt and located on James Street, Toowoomba. It was designed by James Marks for the then Catholic Toowoomba Mission and was built between 1883 and 1889.
Early church services in the Darling Downs were often an itinerant affair conducted from private houses, inns or courthouses, and the origins of Roman Catholic worship in the region are to be found in the transient rituals conducted during the early 1840s. In 1843, Australia's first Catholic Archbishop, John Bede Polding, accompanied by Benedictine abbott, Dr Henry Gregory, toured the pastoral stations in Moreton Bay and Darling Downs with a portable altar. Along the way they preached to the shepherds they met and it was recorded in June 1843 that they "carried their own blankets with them and preferred sleeping on a sheet of bark on the floor . . . the custom of the Catholic priests . . . was, after a little desultory conversation, to ask if there were any Catholics present and that was all. In the morning the priest would walk out into the bush, accompanied by whoever was of his persuasion and there they would say what they had to say to each other". Five years later, Polding again visited the Darling Downs and that same year Father W. McGinty was appointed parish priest of Ipswich and the Darling Downs. Although McGinty regularly toured the Darling Downs to celebrate Mass, parishioners of the area became more vociferous in their call for a resident priest after Queensland separated from New South Wales in 1859.
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