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All Saints' Church, Tamrookum, Queensland
The All Saints Church at Tamrookum was the last and most developed of R. S. Dods' six timber chapels and coincides with the peak of his ecclesiastical work.
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Church, Dural, NSW
This building is the first stage of a church complex. The project had a limited budget and costs determined much of the design. The decision to use a curved haunch timber portal frame as the primary structure came about through early cost management studies.
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John XXIII College Chapel, Mt. Claremont, WA
The John XXIII Chapel continued the long tradition of timber construction in Australian ecclesiastical building.
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Manilla Presbyterian Church
The architect of this small parish church at Manilla embraced plywood and exploited its natural finish and structural capacity as a shear skin in the elements of roof design.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
The first church at Croydon was a constrained monastic chapel: the centre of prayer for a cloistered religious community. Built in 1937, it had a seating capacity of 100. As the suburbs of Melbourne grew to surround the site, this chapel became too small to accommodate the increasing congregation and renovation and extensions were planned. As a result, the monastic chapel has now been incorporated into a new parish church with a 520-plus overflow capacity.
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St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Gracemere, Qld
A multi purpose church with curvaceous and segmented timber portal structure and veneered ceiling panels
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St Patrick’s Cathedral
After the original church building was extensively damaged by fire in 1996, the trustees of St Patrick’s Cathedral sought to establish a new cathedral complex to meet the needs and religious aspirations of the people of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta. The trustees aimed to restore the original church as the Blessed Sacrament Chapel and build a new cathedral extension to accommodate 800 people. The cathedral complex was also to include a cloister, new parish hall and incorporate the historic Murphy House, the original presbytery.
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Wesleyan Chapel, Queenscliff, Victoria
This is a small church, with buttressed masonry walls and a high pitch timber framed roof. The roof structure has three King post trusses whose rafters run past the bottom chord onto the masonry buttress. This church appears to be one of the first examples of the structural use of glue laminated timber in Australia.
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