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St Paul's Anglican Church

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Dates1850-DenominationAnglicanHistory

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The first Church of England services in Ipswich were held in a timber building in Ellenborough Street. A brick church was then erected in 1850 on the corner of Brisbane and Nicholas Streets, opposite the present-day church on Brisbane Street. This was always intended to be a temporary building and was later used as a Sunday School and day school. It was demolished in 1877.

Construction of the new St Paul’s Church commenced in 1855 and was completed in 1859. The Reverend John Moseley was the rector at that time. Originally called St Paul’s Church of England it became St Paul’s Anglican Church in 1981. In 1882 the first Galilee Porch, made from cast iron, was installed at the entrance to the church. This would be replaced in 1926 with the current Galilee Porch War Memorial.

In 1885, the congregation had outgrown the building, and so aisles and a vestry were added in 1888/1889 to the design of F. D. G. Stanley. The western extensions added in 1929 were designed by prominent Ipswich architect, George Brockwell Gill.

The Rectory built in 1895-1896 was designed by George Brockwell Gill. It replaced an earlier building on the same site which had become dilapidated (which you can see in the 1876 photograph). There have been only minor changes made to the current rectory building since it was constructed. It ceased being the rectory in 1990 and is now used for church office purposes.

Clergy (incomplete)

Name	Years
Rev John Wallace	1851-
Rev John Mosely (1829-1879)	1854-1858
Rev Lacy Henry Rumsey (1824-1915)	1858-1864
Rev Phillip Richard Spry Bailey (1836-1900)	1862-1864
Rev John Mosely (1829-1879)	1866-1874
Rev John Herman Leopold Zillman (1841-1919)	1868-
Rev Frederick Richmond (1843-1937) - curate	1872-1873
Rev John Herman Leopold Zillman (1841-1919)	1876-
Rev William Frederick Clark Kennedy (1856-1937) - curate	1883-1885
Rev Benjamin White Clinch (1852-1933) - curate	1885-1886
Rev Hugh Simmons (1858-1941) - curate	1886-1888
Rev John Southey (1856-1922)	1887-1891
Rev Frederick George Williams (1869-1946) - lay reader	1891-
Rev Edward Meeres (1848-1920) - locum tenens	1891-1895
Rev Alfred Davies (1867-1930) - curate	1892-1893
Rev Henry Edward Whittington (1871-1965) - curate	1895-1897
Rector Arthur Robert Bartlett (1851-1923)	1895-1900
Rev Henry Lilley (1873-1932) - lay reader	1896
Rev Alexander McCully (1848-1921) - curate	1897-1898
Rev Sanford Woods (1863-1926) - curate	1898-1900
Rev Herbert John Boon (1869-1940)	1901
Rector William Charles Pritchard (1856-1931)	1901-1903
Rev Albert Ernest Attkins (1872-1947) - curate	1906-1907
Rev Charles Christopher Compton (1875-1933) - curate	1907-1909
Rector Thomas Lewis Harris Jenkyn (1863-1926)	1908-1922
Rev Frank Knight (1889-1964) - curate	1916
Rev John Davidson Anderson ( -1953) - curate	1916-1918
Rev Frederick Thomas Montgomery Palmer (1890-1975) - curate	1918-1919
Rev George Wells (1891-1970) - curate	1920-1924
Rev Neil Colin Campbell Bertram (1897-1958) - curate	1923-1925
Rev Charles Edgar Delacour De Labiller (1869-1941) - locum tenens	1925
Rev George Ernest Easter (1891-1972) - curate	1925-1926
Rev Ernest Warnock Mead (1883-1944) - curate	1926-1927
Rev Francis Butler Cregoe Birch (1883-1976)	1926-1927
Rev William Herny Simmons (1899-1977) - curate	1927
Rev Robert Angus Munro (1903-1987) - curate	1927-1928
Rev Eric Lefroy Cassidy (1901-1978) - curate	1927-1930
Rev Charles Swynfren Carnegie Arkwell (1905-1968) - curate	1929-1931
Rev Raymond Horace Lowe (1906-1992) - curate	1932
Rev William Don Clavell Dunbar (1906-1999) - curate	1932-1936
Rev Philip Sydney Seymour (1904-1977) - curate	1932
Rev Cecil Brook (1903-1955) - curate	1933-1936
Rector Reginald Beatty Massey (1887-1960)	1933-1942
Rev Allan Challes Haysom (1909-2000)	1935-
Rev Cecil Dudley Smythe (1910-1960) - curate	1935-1939
Rev Albert Edward Loxton (1909-1988) - curate	1937-1938
Rev Basil Arnold Talbot (1912-1943) - curate	1937-1939
Rev Henry Rupert Orme (1912-1969) - asst curate	1938-1942
Rev Kenneth Vincent Moore (1901-1968) - curate	1939-1940
Rev Gilbert Cooper (1899-1988) - curate	1939-1942
Rev Edric George Albany (1906-1996) - asst	1939-1942
Rev Henry Kestell Cornish (1890-1971)	1942-1963
Rev Harry Perkins (1903-1998) - curate	1945-1947
Rev John Andrew Madssen (1913-1981) - curate	1956-1958
Rev David Hubert Shand	1963-1966
Rev Robert Stanley Snell - asst curate	1966-1967
Rev Leonard Hilton Nairan O.A.M. - asst	1967-1969
Rev Maurice Clement Pay (1905-1983) - rural dean	1968-1971
Rev Robert George Walsh (1939- ) - asst curate	1969-1970
Rev Herbert William Robey (1917- ) - rural dean	1971-1977
Rev Robert W. Nolan (1947- ) - asst	1970-1974
Rev William Jones Jolly	1976-1978
Rev Albert Leonard Kemish ( -2010)	1978-1980
Rev Ronald Henderson Grigg - asst curate	1980-1982
Archdeacon Irvine Scott (1926-2014)	1980-1987
Rev Richard George Penny - asst	1982-1985
Rev Gavin Melville Ott (19383- )	1985-1987
Rev Iain Furby - asst curate	1987-1989
Rev P.W. Manktelow - asst	1989-1991

Rev Mpole Samuel Masemola	2025-

References (online)St Pauls Anglican Church and Rectory, Queensland Heritage Register [accessed 19/03/225]Ipswich, QLD - St Paul's AnglicanIpswich, QLD - St Paul's Anglican, Australian Christian Church Histories [accessed27/05/2026]

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StreetNicholas StreetLimestone StreetBrisbane StreetEllenborough StreetSuburbIpswichCity & StateIpswich, QueenslandGeo Coordinates^[1]

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ClericsRev. P.W. ManktelowRev. Iain FurbyRev. Richard George PennyRev. Gavin Melville Ott (1938- )Archdeacon Irvine Scott (1926-2014)Rev. Albert Leonard Kemish ( -2010)Rev. William Jones Jolly (1941- )Rev. R.W. Nolan (1947- )Rev. Herbert William Robey (1917- )Rv. Robert George Walsh (1939- )Rev. L.H. NairanRev. Robert Stanley SnellRev. David Hubert ShandRev. Edric George Albany (1906-1996)Rev. Allan Challes Haysom (1909- )Rev. Dr. W. PritchardRev. Lacey H. RumseyCannon BirchRev. Herbert HeathRev. Frank C. BirchRev. Ian H. StockdaleRev. John MoseleyRev. Basil Arnold TalbotMembers of the CongregationAlison SmithWilliam John Jones (1875-1944)Thorn familyJames George CollinsMary Ann Christina (Annie) GordonPearson Welsby CameronMaurice BowersOliver PerryMavis Doreen Parkinson (1915-1942)ArchitectGeorge Brockwell Gill (1857-1954) - ArchitectCharles Balding - ArchitectFrancis Drummond Greville Stanley (1839-1897) - ArchitectBuildings & StructuresSt Paul's Rectory

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