St Patricks Church, Fortitude Valley
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St. Patrick's Church, 2013
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| Location | 58 Morgan Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′28″S 153°02′18″E / 27.4577°S 153.0382°ECoordinates: 27°27′28″S 153°02′18″E / 27.4577°S 153.0382°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1880 - 1882 |
| Architect | Andrea Giovanni Stombuco |
| Architectural style(s) | Gothic |
| Official name: St Patricks Church | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600210 |
| Significant period | 1880-1882 (fabric) |
| Significant components | stained glass window/s, trees/plantings, memorial - statue, furniture/fittings, pipe organ |
| Builders | John Arthur Manis O'Keefe |
 Location of St Patricks Church, Fortitude Valley in Queensland
Location of St Patricks Church, Fortitude Valley in Queensland
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St Patricks Church is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church at 58 Morgan Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Andrea Giovanni Stombuco and built from 1880 to 1882 by John Arthur Manis O'Keefe. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
This stone Gothic-styled church was erected in 1880-1882, to accommodate the growing Catholic population in Fortitude Valley. It replaced an earlier St Patrick's, erected in Wickham Street, opposite Duncan Street, in 1861, one block from the residence of the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane, James O'Quinn.
In the 1860s, Irish Catholics, brought to Queensland through the efforts of O'Quinn's Queensland Immigration Society, congregated in Fortitude Valley and adjacent suburbs. St Patrick's parish extended from Spring Hill, through Fortitude Valley to Newstead, Teneriffe and New Farm. By the late 1870s, the parish had outgrown the Wickham Street church.
The new St Patrick's Church was one of the last of the substantial masonry ecclesiastical structures erected under Bishop O'Quinn's patronage, and was the largest church built during his occupancy of the Queensland Bishopric, 1861 to 1881, being at the time of greater seating capacity than St Stephen's Cathedral. O'Quinn transposed to Queensland, Ireland's Bishop Cullen's philosophy that new churches and ecclesiastical institutions should be expensive and Gothic, symbolising the new age of Irish Roman Catholicism. His successor, Robert Dunne (Bishop and later Archbishop of Brisbane 1882-1917), opposed such ostentatious displays, which had nearly bankrupted the Brisbane diocese.
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