103-708: The Quetta Memorial Precinct is a heritage-listed Anglican church precinct in Douglas Street, Thursday Island , Shire of Torres , Queensland , Australia . The precinct comprises the All Souls and St Bartholomew's Cathedral Church , the Bishop's House , and the Church Hall . The precinct was built as a memorial to the 134 lives lost in the shipwreck of the RMS ; Quetta on 28 February 1890. The church
206-555: A phylactery was said to contain a tear shed by Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus. The cathedral of Autun , not far away, is dedicated to Lazarus as Saint Lazaire . The first written records of Christians in France date from the 2nd century when Irenaeus detailed the deaths of ninety-year-old bishop Pothinus of Lugdunum ( Lyon ) and other martyrs of the 177 persecution in Lyon . The emperor Theodosius I (r. 379-95) makes Christianity
309-452: A Church of England warden, on 8 November 1902. The building was of timber construction, and measured 50 by 25 feet (15.2 by 7.6 m), with a 9-foot (2.7 m) deep verandah along front and sides. It was designed by John Hamilton Park , of Cairns , who had trained as an architect under FDG Stanley in the 1880s, and who in 1899 was foreman for the construction of military works on Thursday Island, where he also practised as an architect for
412-459: A civilised people. . . . Just lately the Islanders have begun to look back on bipotaim (time prior to the coming of the missionaries in 1871) more favourably, and while they remain devoutly Christian, a growing number now seek in elements of the pre-colonial culture the means to reaffirm their identity as Torres Strait Islanders and so strengthen their sense of community." By the mid-1880s, nearly
515-624: A focus not only for Christian worship and ceremony in the Torres Strait, but also for Torres Strait Islander identity, and plays a leadership role in the community. The ceremonial signing of the Torres Strait Regional Agreement, along with a special church service, were celebrated here on 1 July 1994, a date co-inciding with the annual celebration of the "Coming of the Light" (the arrival of Christian missionaries to
618-713: A historic house requires consulting the urban planning administration bureau, and the real estate administration bureau. As of 31 June 2011, there are 287 declared historic houses in Hangzhou, proclaimed as 5 batches. In the near future, it is going to issue the sixth batch which includes 51 historic houses. [REDACTED] Colombia : National monuments of Colombia ; (in Spanish) Monumentos Nacionales de Colombia [REDACTED] Comoros : National Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Comoros) [REDACTED] Republic of
721-656: A large presence in the country, as do other traditionalist priestly societies in full communion with Rome such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter , Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest and others. Some of the most famous French saints and blesseds include St. Denis , St. Thérèse of Lisieux , St. Irenaeus , St. John Vianney (the Curé of Ars ), St. Joan of Arc , St. Bernadette , St. Genevieve , Louis IX of France , St. Elizabeth of
824-665: A new diocese, which produced a small annual income of £ 300. On 3 August 1900, the Anglican Diocese of Carpentaria was created, encompassing the Torres Strait, Cape York Peninsula , the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria and the whole of the Northern Territory . In Queensland the boundary of the new diocese extended to south of Port Douglas , with Cairns remaining in the Diocese of North Queensland. There
927-579: A parochial theological college at Nundah . In 1901 Bishop White also attempted to establish a School for Girls in the Japanese Schoolroom at Thursday Island. A number of Japanese were very active in the Church of England on Thursday Island in the late 1890s. By January 1901 some Anglican services were being conducted in Japanese (through an interpreter), and the Japanese community had erected
1030-553: A reconciliation with the Church through the 1801 Concordat , whereby the State would subsidize Catholicism (recognized as the majority religion of the French), as well as Judaism , Lutheranism , and Calvinism . After the 1814 Bourbon Restoration , the ultra-royalist government, headed by the comte de Villèle , passed the 1825 Anti-Sacrilege Act , which made stealing of consecrated Hosts punishable by death. Never enforced, this law
1133-409: A resident minister. In 1891 a rectory was built from locally raised subscriptions. Situated on the high ground of the Church of England property, at the northeast end of the site, the rectory was highset on timber stumps, of exposed timber stud-framing, lined with deep chamferboards , and surrounded by verandahs . It had a centrally positioned front door, and french doors with fanlights opening onto
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#17327719753311236-423: A short period. The building was erected by contractors Byres and Young, of Thursday Island, and was officially opened by Bishop White on 21 January 1903. Other ground improvements during the first half of 1903 included the construction of a belfry tower (with a bell purchased from Townsville ), and the enclosure of the cathedral grounds with a picket fence of "gothic design" along Douglas Street, and wire netting at
1339-456: A small building known as the Japanese Schoolroom on Church of England property. Little is known about this building, but it seems to have been used mainly for conducting evening English classes. The building also served on occasions as a venue for Church meetings. Whether or not the venue was the deterrent, the Girls' School was not supported, and closed within a few months. In the early 1900s both
1442-567: A substantial block of land in the main street, bounded by Douglas (formerly Tully), Jardine and Chester Streets, and adjacent to the Catholic missionaries, was vested in the Synod of the Diocese of North Queensland for church purposes. In April 1887, the first Anglican church committee on Thursday Island met to arrange for regular visits from a Church of England curate, and in June a church building fund
1545-404: A total of 5.5 million cases of sexual abuse of people under 18 in France. These crimes were committed by between 2900 and 3200 priests and community members. A number of alleged Marian apparitions are associated with France. The best known are the following: The 1905 French law on the separation of Church and State removed the privileged status of the state religion (Catholic Church) and of
1648-448: A vestry, accessed off the chancel/sanctuary. Windows in the clerestory, sanctuary, chancel and at the ends of the aisles, are lancet-shaped and have fixed stained-glass memorial panels. There is a 1960s addition to the front (southeast), which extends the nave and aisles by two and a half bays. It does not replicate the earlier structure, having a distinctive style and separate form, with a single roof, much less steeply pitched than that of
1751-452: Is a bank of clear-glass, hopper windows . Internally, the early section of the nave has a high open ceiling, timber lined (unpainted), with exposed timber trusses . There is a fine timber ventilation frieze along the full length of the side walls of both the nave and the chancel/sanctuary, just beneath the roof. Interior walls are rendered to resemble stonework, and the floors are of concrete. Reflecting church liturgical practices of its era,
1854-521: Is likely that the side and rear verandahs were first enclosed at this stage, and there was an ecclesiastical arched timber balustrade to the front verandah by this date. Bishop White travelled widely through his diocese, and the See House on Thursday Island was used primarily as the Bishop's College. In 1903, Lord Beauchamp renewed his support, but the college closed in 1907 following the establishment of
1957-678: Is organised into 98 dioceses , which in 2012 were served by 7,000 sub-75 priests. 80 to 90 priests are ordained every year, although the church would need eight times as many to compensate the number of priest deaths. Approximately 45,000 Catholic church buildings and chapels are spread out among 36,500 cities, towns, and villages in France, but a majority are no longer regularly used for mass. Notable churches of France include Notre Dame de Paris , Chartres Cathedral , Dijon Cathedral , Reims Cathedral , Saint-Sulpice, Paris , Basilique du Sacre-Coeur , Strasbourg Cathedral , Eglise de la Madeleine , and Amiens Cathedral . Its national shrine , Lourdes ,
2060-401: Is timber-framed with fibrous cement sheeting and cover-strips, and has a pair of centrally positioned, aluminium-framed glass entrance doors, with stained glass memorial windows either side. There is a small, cantilevered , ply-covered awning over the front doors, and above this are two round windows with fixed stained-glass panels. These both feature ship motifs. On either side of the entrance
2163-507: Is visited by 5 million pilgrims yearly. The capital city, Paris , is a major pilgrimage site for Catholics as well. In recent decades, France has emerged as a stronghold for the small but growing Traditionalist Catholic movement, along with the United States , England and other English-speaking countries. The Society of Saint Pius X , a canonically irregular priestly society founded by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre has
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#17327719753312266-533: The Congregationists and the authorities. Anti-clericalism slowly declined among the French left-wing throughout France in the twentieth century , while the question of religion and of freedom of thought seemed to have been resolved. However, it is still present as a defining trait of the left-wing, while most right-wing Frenchmen describe themselves as Catholics (although not necessarily practicing). Thus,
2369-930: The Frankokratia existed where French Latin Catholics took over parts of the Byzantine Empire . A crusade also took place on French territory in the County of Toulouse (contemporary Languedoc ) with the Albigensian Crusade in the 13th century, called by Pope Innocent III . This played out on local level with fighting between the Catholic White Brotherhood and the Cathar Black Brotherhood . The Cathars lost and were subsequently exterminated. In 1312,
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2575-673: The French Revolution (1789–1799) was followed by heavy persecution of the Catholic Church. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Laïcité , absolute neutrality of the state with respect to religious doctrine, is the official policy of the French Republic . Estimates of the proportion of Catholics in 2020 range between 47% and 88% of France's population, with the higher figure including lapsed Catholics and " Catholic atheists ". The Catholic Church in France
2678-776: The KONS of Bosnia and Herzegovina; State level Local level (entities, district Brčko, cantonal, and regional) [REDACTED] Botswana : Sites and monuments in Botswana [REDACTED] Brazil : List of National Historic Heritage of Brazil , as maintained by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage ; (in Portuguese) Listas de patrimônio do Brasil [REDACTED] Bulgaria : National Institute of Immovable Cultural Heritage [REDACTED] Cambodia : Law on
2781-505: The Pope in Rome . Established in the 2nd century in unbroken communion with the bishop of Rome , it was sometimes called the " eldest daughter of the church " ( French : fille aînée de l'Église ). The first written records of Christians in France date from the 2nd century when Irenaeus detailed the deaths of ninety-year-old bishop Saint Pothinus of Lugdunum ( Lyon ) and other martyrs of
2884-773: The Society of St. Pius X , push for the return to the Ancien Régime or at least pre-separation situation, contending that France has forgotten its divine mission as a Christian country (an argument already upheld by the Ultras presenting the 1825 Anti-Sacrilege Act ). 2006 Statistics from the Catholic Church in France: 74% of French Catholics support same-sex marriage and 24% oppose it. 87% of French Catholics believe society should accept homosexuality , while 10% believe society should not accept homosexuality. Within France
2987-629: The Vatican 's influence. Anti-clericalism was popular among Republicans , Radicals , and Socialists , in part because the Church had supported the counterrevolutionaries throughout the 19th century. After the 16 May 1877 crisis and the fall of the Ordre Moral government led by Marshall MacMahon , the Republicans voted Jules Ferry's 1880 laws on free education (1881) and mandatory and secular education (1882), which Catholics felt
3090-636: The archbishop of Strasbourg . They are approved by the Pope and in practice selected by him, but formally nominated by the French president following diplomatic exchanges with the Holy See through the nunciature. During the application of the 1905 law, prime minister Emile Combes , a member of the Radical-Socialist Party , tried to strictly enforce measures which some Catholics considered humiliating or blasphematory, leading to clashes between
3193-670: The clerestory in the 1980s. In 1989 the cathedral was re-roofed. In 1996, after nearly a century, the Diocese of Carpentaria was re-absorbed by the Diocese of North Queensland. At this time the Bishop's House on Thursday Island was vacated. The cathedral still provides an important focus for the Anglican parishes of the Torres Strait, which today comprise Bamaga , Coconut Island , Darnley & Stephen Islands, Kubin & Moa Islands, Mabuiag, Murray Island , Saibai & Dauan Islands, Thursday Island, and Yorke Island . All Souls' and St Bartholomew's Cathedral Church (Quetta Memorial) remains
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3296-600: The official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380. In 496, Remigius baptized Clovis I , who was converted from paganism to Catholicism. Clovis I, considered the founder of France, made himself the ally and protector of the papacy and his predominantly Catholic subjects. On Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire , forming the political and religious foundations of Christendom and establishing in earnest
3399-461: The 177 AD persecution in Lyon . In 496 Remigius baptized King Clovis I , who therefore converted from paganism to Catholicism. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire , forming the political and religious foundations of Christendom in Europe and establishing in earnest the French government's long historical association with the Catholic Church. In reaction,
3502-412: The 19th century, British shipping began to make regular use of Torres Strait , entering into a passing trade with the Islanders. Colonial occupation commenced in the 1860s and 1870s with the arrival of beche-de-mer crews, pearl-shellers , Protestant missionaries from the southwestern Pacific, and government officials. Queensland had no jurisdiction over the Torres Strait until its annexation in 1872 of
3605-542: The Anglican Church be invited to subscribe to the erection of a church on Thursday Island, as a memorial to those lost in the Quetta . The idea was put to a general meeting of Thursday Island's Anglican congregation, held at the courthouse on 20 July 1890 and chaired by Bishop Stanton, where it was resolved: That in the opinion of this meeting, it is desirable that a Church and Parsonage be erected on Thursday Island;
3708-513: The Bishop and the local parish worked to improve the Church of England premises on Thursday Island. In the period 1901–1904 a parish hall and a new rectory were erected, the whole of the church ground was fenced, a belltower was built, renovations were made to the Japanese Schoolroom, and additions were made to the South Sea Home – both the latter established on Church property in the 1890s. By January 1902, with Bishop White's encouragement,
3811-492: The Bishop's House on Thursday Island was renovated, with substantial internal changes. Memorials placed in the cathedral in the late 20th century include a timber screen of very fine traditional Islander work, carved by Abia Ingui of Boigu Island , which was placed between the Blessed Sacrament Chapel and the low altar in 1989. Vibrant stained glass windows , designed by artist Oliver Cowley, were placed in
3914-468: The Church to be a fitting memorial of those who were lost in the wreck of the "Quetta" on the night of February the 28th last, and that the Church Committee take the necessary steps for carrying this into effect. Some discussion ensued as to whether the memorial should be a Union Church , but only an Anglican church could be erected on Church of England property. The first step was to attract
4017-593: The Church". The King of France was known as "His Most Christian Majesty". Following the Protestant Reformation , France was riven by sectarian conflict as the Huguenots and Catholics strove for supremacy in the Wars of Religion until the 1598 Edict of Nantes established a measure of religious toleration . The French Revolution radically shifted power away from the Catholic Church. Church property
4120-701: The Congo : National Inventory of the Cultural Heritage of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [REDACTED] Denmark : National Register of Sites and Monuments, as maintained by the Danish Agency for Culture [REDACTED] Djibouti : List of monuments of Djibouti French Catholicism The French Catholic Church , or Catholic Church in France is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with
4223-911: The Congo : Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Republic of the Congo [REDACTED] Costa Rica (in Spanish) Monumento Nacional de Costa Rica [REDACTED] Croatia : Register of Protected Natural Values of the Republic of Croatia [REDACTED] Cuba : Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural [REDACTED] Cyprus : Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus [REDACTED] Czech : (in Czech) Seznam národních kulturních památek České republiky , (in German) Liste der Nationalen Kulturdenkmale Tschechiens , as featuring on MonumNet [REDACTED] Democratic Republic of
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4326-815: The Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales [REDACTED] China : Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (全国重点文物保护单位), designated by State Administration of Cultural Heritage Sites Protected at the City Level of Hangzhou are districts, artifacts or buildings legally declared to be "protected". According to the "Regularations of historic districts and historic buildings in Hangzhou" effectivated from 1 January 2005, historic buildings are those artifacts or districts that have lasted more than 50 years, and of significant values for history, science, and art study. In Hangzhou, declaring
4429-525: The Diocese of Carpentaria. The front of the cathedral was extended in 1964–1965, but not to Buckeridge's original concept. In 1965 St Bartholomew was declared the patron saint of the cathedral, which became known as The Cathedral Church of All Souls and St Bartholomew (Quetta Memorial). In 1968 the Diocese of the Northern Territory separated from the Diocese of Carpentaria, and around this time
4532-635: The French government's longstanding historical association with the Catholic Church. The Council of Clermont , a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen led by Pope Urban II in November 1095 at Clermont-Ferrand triggered the First Crusade . The Kingdom of France and its aristocracy were prominent players in the Crusades in general. Following the Fourth Crusade , a period known as
4635-666: The French monarch Philip IV of France was involved in the suppression of the Knights Templar by Pope Clement V ; Philip was in deep financial dept to the Templars. The Avignon Papacy was the period from 1309 to 1377 during which seven French popes, resided in Avignon . Prior to the French Revolution , the Catholic Church had been the official state religion of France since the conversion to Christianity of Clovis I , leading to France being called "the eldest daughter of
4738-692: The Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles . Provençal tradition names Lazarus as the first bishop of Marseille , while Martha purportedly went on to tame a terrible beast in nearby Tarascon . Pilgrims visited their tombs at the abbey of Vézelay in Burgundy . In the Abbey of the Trinity at Vendôme ,
4841-415: The Muralag islands, the Kaurareg people , shared some cultural characteristics with Cape York Aborigines and spoke the same basic language, Kala Lagaw Ya . However, the Kaurareg were a maritime people who lived from harvesting the sea, shifting camp sites regularly. Waiben had a restricted water supply, and it is thought that no permanent Kaurareg settlement was established there. During the first half of
4944-837: The Preservation of Afghan Cultural Heritage [REDACTED] Albania : List of Religious Cultural Monuments of Albania [REDACTED] Algeria : List of cultural assets of Algeria [REDACTED] Andorra : Bé d'interès cultural , as maintained by Patrimoni Cultural = Cultural Heritage of Andorra ; (in Catalan) Llista de monuments d'Andorra [REDACTED] Angola : Património Histórico-Cultural Nacional [REDACTED] Argentina : National Historic Monuments of Argentina ; (in French) Monument historique national (Argentine) [REDACTED] Armenia : State Heritage of National Register (Armenia) [REDACTED] Australia : Heritage registers in Australia [REDACTED] Austria : Denkmalgeschütztes Objekt , as maintained by
5047-418: The Protection of Cultural Heritage [REDACTED] Cameroon (in French) : Liste de monuments du Cameroun [REDACTED] Canada : The Canadian Register of Historic Places , while it confers no historic designation or protection itself, endeavours to list all federal, provincial, territorial and local sites. [REDACTED] Chile : National Monuments of Chile , as maintained by
5150-413: The Quetta Memorial Church was constructed in stages, as funds became available, and was never completed as originally designed. The Hon. John Douglas , Government Resident at Thursday Island and a staunch supporter of the project, laid the foundation stone on 24 May 1893. Six months later, on 12 November 1893, the completed sanctuary /chancel (built to slightly smaller dimensions than the original design)
5253-413: The Quetta Memorial Church would become a cathedral. It appears that by 1901 the aisles had been constructed, but in timber, which was a temporary measure. These had lancet windows along the sides, as in Buckeridge's original design. The building seated about 250 persons, in wooden chairs rather than pews , was already a place of pilgrimage , and something of a tourist attraction. A number of relics from
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#17327719753315356-494: The Rev JJE Done was appointed to take charge of the Mission, establishing his headquarters on Mabuiag Island . In September a second priest was appointed to St Paul's on Moa Island (established c. 1906 ) and in 1917 a third priest was stationed at Darnley Island , taking over Darnley, Murray, Stephens and Massig (Yorke) islands. As Torres Strait Islanders converted from Congregational to Anglican practices, All Souls' Cathedral Church and Quetta Memorial became increasingly
5459-465: The Right Rev. George Henry Stanton consecrated as the first bishop. The new diocese constituted a vast area of about 300,000 square miles, bounded on the west by the Queensland– South Australian border, on the south by latitude 22°S, on the east by the ocean, and encompassing the islands of the Torres Strait. Anglican services on Thursday Island were held initially at the Court House, conducted by lay preachers and occasional visiting clergy. In 1885–1886
5562-405: The Strait on 1 July 1871). A strong spirituality and sense of self-determination are considered by many Torres Strait Islanders to be the two pillars of local society: if one is missing, the community is "unbalanced". The Anglican precinct on Thursday Island is located at the southwest end of the island, in the oldest section of the town, one street back from the foreshore. The site is bounded by on
5665-429: The Theological Training College for three years, from 1 January 1901. The Primate of Australia and others contributed towards a fourth studentship. The new theological college was known as Bishop's College , and was established in the See House on Thursday Island, which in late 1900-early 1901 was enlarged to 11 rooms, providing accommodation for 4 college students, as well as the Bishop and the Thursday Island rector. It
5768-445: The Torres Strait, reinforced the status of the Strait's Pacific Islander maritime workers, and paved the way for European missionaries. From 1871 to the mid-1880s, Congregational missionary the Rev. Dr Samuel MacFarlane headed the western division of the London Missionary Society's New Guinea mission. He was based initially at Erub, then moved to Dauan, where he established a school for island boys. Torres Strait Islanders now refer to
5871-457: The Trinity , St. Vincent de Paul , St. Louise de Marillac , St. Catherine Labouré , St. Louis de Montfort , St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle , St. Francis de Sales , St. Margaret Mary Alacoque , Bl. Nicholas Barré , St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and St. Bernard of Clairvaux . According to long-standing tradition, Mary , Martha , Lazarus (Marie, Marthe and Lazare in French) and some companions, who were expelled by persecutions from
5974-418: The arrival of the Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait in July 1871 as "the coming of the light", a cause for celebration and memorial: "For generations of Islanders the arrival of the missionaries has marked the divide between darkness and light. They brought deliverance from a life most preferred to forget, certain aspects of which had become anathema to their religion, and to their idea of themselves as
6077-453: The cathedral. In 1904 a new timber rectory was built in the church grounds, completed to accommodate a new minister and his wife who arrived on Thursday Island in September. Also, by October 1904, the South Sea Home, apparently situated on the Church of England property, had been extended. A description of the Anglican community on Thursday Island in 1905 reveals a multi-cultural community, whose economy and culture were connected closely with
6180-418: The church was promoted as a focus for missionary work in the Diocese of North Queensland, and already attracted numbers of Japanese and South Sea Islanders – groups prominent in the Torres Strait pearl-shell industry. At the same time the Bishop of North Queensland, Dr Barlow, was working toward the establishment of a new far northern diocese, the centre of which was likely to be at Thursday Island – in which case
6283-416: The construction of the Quetta Memorial Church in the 1890s. The Bishop deliberated over this, but having studied early minutes, it was clear that the original intention had been to erect an Anglican church, and in December 1903 he refused the petition. In February 1904 the Bishop modified his position by offering visiting ministers the use of the parish institute, but he would not be moved on the issue of use of
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#17327719753316386-423: The controversy twenty years later, although the dividing lines also passed through each political side due to the complexity of the subject. On this occasion, several Muslim associations have allied themselves with conservative Catholics to reject the law. One consequences of the law was that some Muslim middle and high school students who refused to remove their veils or "conspicuous religious symbols" withdrew from
6489-469: The draft laws presented by François Mitterrand 's government in the early 1980s, concerning restrictions on the state funding of private (and in majority Catholic) schools, were countered by right-wing demonstrations headed by the then mayor of Paris, the Gaullist Jacques Chirac , who was to be his prime minister in 1986 and would succeed him in 1995 as president. In the same way, the 2004 law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools , revived
6592-421: The earlier nave, and considerably lower, extending across both nave and aisles. The side walls of this extension are of concrete with articulated bays. On either side, the bay closest to the original nave has a square headed timber door with a fixed stained glass panel (rectangular) above. There are casement windows in the next bay, on either side, again with a stained-glass panel above. The front of this extension
6695-414: The earliest section of the nave are housed under separate, steeply pitched, gabled roofs which have late 20th century corrugated iron roof cladding. Typical of this style of church design, the chancel/sanctuary roof is lower than that of the nave, but, unusually for an Anglican church, is at the northwest end of the building, such that the entrance to the nave is from the southeast, which faces Douglas Street,
6798-401: The floor of the chancel is raised above that of the nave, and the floor of the sanctuary, at the far end of the chancel, is raised further. The high altar is placed here, three steps above the floor of the chancel. At the southeastern end of the chancel, projecting into the nave, is the low altar, which rests on a concrete platform raised two steps above the floor of the nave, but one step below
6901-431: The floor of the chancel. Both altars are constructed of local granite in a random rubble pattern. A pulpit of moulded concrete is located on the concrete platform in front of the chancel, on the southwest side. The nave has two rows of timber pews, and there are timber choir stalls in the chancel. The early section of the nave is separated from the aisles by lancet-shaped concrete arches with plain mouldings, which support
7004-399: The focus of religious life in the Torres Strait. During the Second World War most of the civilian population of Thursday Island was evacuated to the mainland, and the Island became a garrison town. During this period services continued to be held at the cathedral, and oral history suggests that the church hall was requisitioned for military purposes. The 1960s was a period of change within
7107-510: The front verandah. Once the rectory was completed, Rev. William Maitland Woods was installed as the first incumbent clergyman of the parish of Thursday Island, and canvassing began for funds for construction of a Memorial Church – a durable edifice, of artistic proportions, worthy of its commemorative intentions. Nearly £ 1600 was subscribed at this first appeal, from all over Australia and from Britain, and not restricted to Anglicans. Thursday Island's Presbyterians were particularly supportive of
7210-461: The great waters," and few strangers visit Thursday Island without a pilgrimage to the cathedral and its relics of the dangers of the deep. Following the death of the Hon. John Douglas in 1904, it was decided to complete in concrete the northeast aisle of the cathedral as the Douglas Memorial Chapel, to serve for daily services and devotional meetings. Plans were commissioned from JH Buckeridge, but fund raising for this project took many years. The chapel
7313-468: The heritage listing. The principal structures on the site include: The grounds contain a number of memorials, a bell tower, mature plantings, garden paths, stone-edged gardens and fencing. The Quetta Memorial is a late 19th/early 20th century Gothic Revival style church in mass concrete, rendered to resemble stonework, with a 1960s front extension of concrete and fibrous cement sheeting. The whole rests on concrete foundations . The chancel/sanctuary and
7416-598: The hierarchy consists of: Immediately subject to the Holy See : Other: France is the location of one of the world's major Catholic pilgrim centres at Lourdes . Growing discontent with respect to the influence of the Catholic Church in education and politics led to a series of reforms during the Third Republic reducing this influence, under the protests of the Ultramontanists who supported
7519-603: The islands of the southern half of the Strait, a measure intended largely to protect Queensland interests in the pearl-shelling and beche-de-mer fisheries in the Strait and along the Barrier Reef, and to regulate the employment of South Sea Islanders in these enterprises. At annexation, Torres Strait Islanders acquired the same official status as mainland Aborigines. In 1877, the official Queensland Government settlement at Somerset on Cape York Peninsula (established 1864)
7622-680: The line of the arches between the earlier nave and the aisles, and support the roof of this section. The extension floor is of concrete. The church contains many relics and memorials associated with the wreck of the Quetta in 1890, with other Torres Strait shipwrecks, and with persons closely associated with the work of the church. Heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers , inventories of cultural properties , natural and human-made, tangible and intangible , movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances
7725-494: The local parish had decided to erect a Parish Institute, a purpose-designed church hall in which to hold parochial meetings, social gatherings, church society meetings, a Sunday School, etc. The construction of this hall was considered essential to the expansion of the work of the parish. Funds were raised in 1902, tenders were called in October that year, and the foundation stone was laid by Hon. John Douglas, Government Resident and
7828-484: The main street in the town of Thursday Island. The earliest section of the nave is four bays in length, with a clerestory . The southeast gabled end of the nave has later sheeting, mimicking timber boarding, and replacing earlier weatherboards . The nave has a single-storeyed, skillion-roofed aisle along either side, in which the bays are articulated by concrete piers, and with pairs of lancet-shaped arched timber doors in each bay. The southwest aisle extends to incorporate
7931-481: The nave had been constructed, but were clad externally with temporary timber boarding, until the aisles could be built. A skillion-roofed timber vestry had been erected on the western side of the church, off the chancel. There was no debt on the building, but the Church Building Committee was anxious to complete Buckeridge's design, and a second appeal for funds was launched in 1895. At this time
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8137-517: The project. After considering the cost of brick or stone, the Church Building Committee decided that the memorial church should be constructed in concrete, and commissioned a design from John Hingeston Buckeridge, Brisbane's Anglican diocesan architect from February 1887 until 1902. Buckeridge designed about 60 churches in southern Queensland and later church and mission buildings in British New Guinea . Like many Queensland architects, he
8240-399: The public school system in favour of the private, but publicly funded, Catholic schools (where the law does not apply, being restricted to the public education system). In any case, since the 1905 law on the separation of the Church and State, the prevailing public doctrine on religion is laïcité – that is, neutrality of the state with respect to religious doctrine, and separation of
8343-524: The rear of the property. The Japanese also raised funds to improve their school. In October 1903 a deputation of prominent Thursday Island citizens, including the Hon. John Douglas, petitioned Bishop White to allow visiting clergymen of other denominations to preach at the cathedral. The claim was made on the grounds that other denominations, particularly the Presbyterians, had contributed significantly to
8446-607: The religious and the public spheres, except in Alsace-Lorraine and in some oversea territories. This state neutrality is conceived as a protection of religious minorities as well as the upholding of freedom of thought, which includes a right to agnosticism and atheism . Although many Catholics were at first opposed to this secular movement, most of them have since changed opinions, finding that this neutrality actually protects their faith from political interference. Only some minority traditionalist Catholic groups, such as
8549-450: The roof structure. At the northwest end of the northeast aisle is a small chapel, separated form the remainder of the aisle by a low timber railing, and from the nave by a carved timber screen of indigenous design. The 1960s extension has a much lower ceiling, clad with fibrous cement sheeting. The side concrete walls are rendered, but the front wall, which is timber framed, is lined with fibrous-cement sheeting. Square concrete pillars follow
8652-425: The sea: The congregation of the cathedral is an interesting one, comprising soldiers from the garrison, pearl-shellers, visitors from ships, South Sea Island and Japanese communicants, in addition to the white population, and often a detachment of native Christians from Mobiag or one of the other Torres Straits islands. Special prayer is offered daily for "those engaged in fishing, travelling, or doing their business in
8755-564: The sides, which when opened, made the cathedral extremely light and cool. A number of memorials were placed in the cathedral in the early years of the 20th century. These included: Late in 1914 the London Missionary Society approached the Bishop of Carpentaria with a request that the Diocese take over the society's Torres Strait Mission. The offer was accepted, and the hand-over was formalised in March 1915. On 1 July 1915
8858-431: The southeast by Douglas (formerly Tully) Street, on the southwest by Jardine Street, on the northwest by Chester Street, and on the northeast by the Catholic precinct. The land slopes slightly toward the southeast and the Douglas Street frontage, which has a low concrete fence extending in front of the church and church hall grounds. Several houses at the southwest end of the site, although church property, are not included in
8961-432: The three other state-recognised religions (Lutheranism, Calvinism, Judaism), but left to them the use without fee, and the maintenance at government expense, of the churches that they used prior to 1905. A notable exception is Alsace-Lorraine , which at the time of the separation was part of Germany , and where the pre-1905 status, including the concordat, is still in force. This was negotiated in 1918 when Alsace-Lorraine
9064-553: The whole of the Torres Strait Islander population was nominally Christian. French Catholic missionaries established a presence on Thursday Island in 1884–85, but Protestantism was well-established in the Torres Strait by this date. In 1878, shortly after the establishment of permanent settlement on Thursday Island in 1877, the Church of England Diocese of North Queensland separated from the Diocese of Sydney , with
9167-413: The wreck of the Quetta were displayed, and there were various memorials to persons who had died in, or had been saved from, the Quetta, as well as relics or memorials to other Torres Strait shipwrecks. The association of the place with the Torres Strait, and with the sea, was very strong. In the second half of the 1890s Bishop Barlow travelled to England, where he raised £ 10,000 as a minimum endowment for
9270-595: Was confiscated, and the church crop tax and special clergy privileges were eliminated. With the 1790 Civil Constitution of the Clergy , the clergy became employees of the State, and the Catholic Church became a subordinate arm of the secular French government . During the Reign of Terror, traditional Christian holidays were abolished and Catholic priests were brutally suppressed , locally through mass imprisonment and executions by drowning . Napoleon Bonaparte negotiated
9373-484: Was consecrated by the Right Rev. Dr Christopher Barlow , the second Bishop of North Queensland , as All Souls Quetta Memorial Church. At this time Douglas made an appeal for the Bishop to permit clergymen of other Protestant denominations to conduct services in the church, but the Bishop made no formal statement on this. By mid-1895 the chancel and four-fifths of the nave had been completed. The concrete side arches to
9476-541: Was declared bankrupt in 1892, following the collapse of the building industry during the depression of the early 1890s , and moved from Brisbane to Sydney . He prepared the design for the Quetta Memorial Church in 1892–1893, most likely from Sydney. The original design was for a Gothic Revival style building with chancel , nave of 5 bays in length, aisles , bell tower spire , vestries , and side entrances. However, like many Queensland churches,
9579-571: Was designed in 1892–1893 by architect John H. Buckeridge . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 July 2001. The Quetta Memorial Precinct on Thursday Island was established in the early 1890s. The principal buildings on the site are: Thursday Island (indigenous name: Waiben) is located within the Prince of Wales (Muralag) group , just off the northwest tip of Cape York Peninsula . The original inhabitants of
9682-659: Was en route to Britain, and carried nearly 300 passengers, many of them from prominent Queensland families. Most of the Europeans on board were drowned, and the loss was felt throughout colonial Queensland. Shortly after the accident a visiting Anglican priest, the Rev. AA Maclaren, conducted a burial service over the site of the wreck of the Quetta . At a meeting of the Thursday Island Church of England Committee on 10 April 1890, Rev. Maclaren proposed that members of
9785-590: Was established. Little more was accomplished, however, until a tragic shipwreck in the Torres Strait in 1890 proved a catalyst for the construction of an Anglican church on Thursday Island. On the night of 28 February 1890, the British mail and passenger ship RMS Quetta struck an uncharted rock in the Adolphus Channel , off Albany Island , and sank with the loss of 133 lives. It remains one of Queensland's and Australia's worst maritime disasters. The ship
9888-849: Was extended to the islands of the northern half of the Torres Strait. The first Christian missionaries to establish a presence in the Torres Strait were associated with the London Missionary Society . From 1871, as the first step in bringing Christianity to Papual New Guinea , the society began to land its Pacific Islander teachers (mostly from the Loyalty Islands ) in the Torres Strait, at Erub ( Darnley Island ), Tutu (Warrior Island) and Dauan (Cornwallis) islands in July 1871, and at Mabuiag (Jervis)), Moa (Banks), Massid ( Yorke ) and Saibai islands in 1872. These lay teachers brought an indigenised form of Protestantism to
9991-490: Was finally opened on St Peter's Day , 29 June 1913. It contained a memorial stained glass window executed by Kayll and Reed of Leeds , of an elderly St John (in the likeness of John Douglas) at Patmos , which was donated by Torres Strait Islanders. Almost immediately, fundraising began for completion of the southwest aisle, which was opened on 20 June 1915. The new aisles deviated from Buckeridge's 1892 design, in that they now had rows of paired, lancet-shaped arched doors along
10094-415: Was installed at Thursday Island on 18 November 1900. At this time the All Souls' Quetta Memorial Church became the All Souls' Cathedral Church and Quetta Memorial . Thursday Island parishioners agreed that the bishop should be appointed dean of the cathedral, with a sub-dean to be appointed to take charge of parochial matters. The cathedral was also to be used for parochial purposes. The existing rectory
10197-402: Was moved to the newly surveyed town of Port Kennedy on the southern side of Thursday Island. The new location provided a sheltered, deepwater anchorage, and was more centrally located along the main shipping route through the inner channel of Torres Strait, the principal trade route to Asia and the northern route to England. In 1879, at British Colonial Office direction, Queensland jurisdiction
10300-489: Was no large population centre in the whole of the new diocese. Access was principally by sea, and so Thursday Island, centrally located on a major shipping route, was chosen as the seat of the Bishop. The Ven. Gilbert White , Archdeacon of North Queensland, was consecrated as the first Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Carpentaria, at St Andrew's Cathedral , Sydney, on St Bartholomew's Day , 24 August 1900, and
10403-546: Was repealed in the July Monarchy (1830–1848). On 5 October 2021, a report was published by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) which showed that up to 330,000 children had become victims of sexual abuse within the church in France over a period spanning 7 decades (1950–2020). This constitutes 6% of total sexual abuse in France, since the same report notes that there are
10506-483: Was returned to France at the end of the first World War, and approved by both France and the Holy See with the Briand-Ceretti Agreement . As a consequence, and although France is one of the countries in the world where the state and church are most separated, the French head of state is paradoxically the only temporal power in the world still nominating Catholic bishops, namely the bishop of Metz and
10609-574: Was to be taken over by the diocese as the See House, or Bishop's House, and a new residence was to be provided for the clergyman of the Thursday Island parish. The new bishop had a formidable task ahead, and little funding. Fearing that it would be difficult to attract clergy to the diocese, he proposed to establish a diocesan theological training college on Thursday Island. This was made possible following an undertaking by Lord Beauchamp , Governor of New South Wales , to support three students at
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