page_title: St. Andrew's Church, Toogoolawah
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St. Andrew's Church, Toogoolawah / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Robin Dods' architectural drawing of St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Toogoolawah
context_page_description: St Andrew's Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church at Mangerton Street, Toogoolawah, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built from 1911 to 1912 by local builder Donald Alexander Menzies at a cost of £839. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
  When first constructed, it featured a shingle roof, a hand carved altar and a choir stall screen and was described at the time as "a welcome advance in the church architecture of this district". The Anglican Church Chronicle reported that "The treatment is original and effective and proves that the possibilities in connection with the architecture of wooden buildings are wider in extent than is commonly supposed".
context_section_description: St Andrew's Church was constructed in 1911-1912 for the Anglican congregation in Toogoolawah, on land donated in 1911 by Mary Elizabeth McConnel of Cressbrook. The McConnel family were personal friends of Archbishop of Brisbane St Clair Donaldson.
  The town of Cressbrook Creek (later Toogoolawah) was founded when her husband, JH McConnel, subdivided a large section of the Cressbrook estate in the late 1890s, and established a condensed milk factory on Cressbrook Creek in 1898. The town expanded when the rail connection to Ipswich was completed in 1904, and again after purchase of the factory by the Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company Ltd in 1907.
  
  Prior to construction of the church, services at Cressbrook Creek had been conducted at the Union Church, and then in the Anglican hall built by the McConnels in 1906.
  Brisbane diocesan architect Robin Smith Dods prepared the designs for the church in 1908. He was well known to the McConnels, having designed in 1901 the Victoria Chapel at Cressbrook station.
  St Andrews was erected in 1911-1912 by local contractor DA Menzies, who constructed most of the buildings in Toogoolawah until the mid-1920s. The contract price was £839. It was completed in January 1912. St. Andrew's was dedicated by Archbishop Donaldson on 12 May 1912.
  The original building had no buttresses. In February 1913 it was reported that, "St Andrew's Anglican Church was severely strained and put out of plumb by a very severe windstorm last week-end. The roof and superstructure only appear to have suffered." Garden fetes raised money and tenders for repairs were called in April 1913. By August it was reported that these repairs included buttressing the church, and these buttresses have been a feature of this church since that time.
  In 1925 the St Andrew's Rectory was built for £1008 by a local contractor and it was formally opened and blessed by Bishop Henry Le Fanu on 10 July 1925.
  The original split cedar shingles were replaced in 1966 with sawn shingles of local iron bark and crow's ash.
  The original stables beside the church were removed in 1978 to relocate the Anglican Church Hall there.
  The Church received the baptismal font from Archbishop Donaldson's private chapel at Bishopsbourne as a gift before its dedication, and now has many stained glass windows. St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Toogoolawah, celebrated a hundred years of service on 12 May 2012 where Rob Nolan, Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Brisbane and Bishop of the Western Region, conducted the centenary service.
caption: Robin Dods' architectural drawing of St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Toogoolawah
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