Albert Street Uniting Church
Brisbane, Australia
Albert Street Uniting Church is a heritage-listed Uniting church at 319 Albert Street (on the corner of Ann Street), Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Henry Male Addison and built from 1888 to 1889 by Thomas Pearson & Sons. It was originally known as Albert Street Methodist Church and Central Methodist Mission. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The first Methodist church in Brisbane, a modest brick chapel, was constructed in 1848–49 at a cost of £150, on the corner of Albert Street and Burnett Lane. Many of the bricks and stone used in its construction had come from a demolished building on the corner of Queen and Edward Streets. It was opened on 10 March 1849, with the first service conducted by a Presbyterian minister, Rev. Thomas Mowbray. The building measured 35 feet long and 18 feet wide, and could seat 150 people. A parsonage was also built in 1849 behind the church facing Burnett Lane, and originally consisted of only two rooms, with two additional rooms added later. The first church was replaced in 1856 by a larger building. It was built by Joshua Jeays, who also built Parliament House and the first stage of Old Government House. It cost £2667, was 80 feet long by 40 feet wide, and could seat 500 people. This building had stained glass windows, some of which were transferred to the current church building. Several pews from the first building were kept, whilst additional pews were crafted for the second building. These pews are now located in the gallery of the current church building. The first service in the second building was conducted on 6 December 1856 by Rev. John Eggleston. In 1878, work was done on this building to replace the roof shingles with slate, add a gallery along the Albert Street side, and install a pipe organ built by James Cole of Manchester. This pipe organ was moved to St Thomas' Anglican Church in North Ipswich in 1892.
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