Historic Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Herberton
The Anglican Diocese of North Queensland has begun listing its vast real estate holdings after it was placed into receivership late last year.
Receivers were appointed to restructure the organisation after the church was ordered to pay compensation to victims of historic institutional abuse between the 1950s and 1980s.
Colliers Townsville is handling the sale of the assets, which include three in the Cairns region, two in the Charters Towers region, four in the Townsville region and two in Bowen.
The Cairns assets include inner-city St Luke’s Anglican Church, historic Holy Trinity Anglican Church at Herberton on the Atherton Tablelands, and a modern residential house – St Alban’s Rectory – at Innisfail Estate.
Inside St Luke’s Anglican Church at 335 McLeod Street, Cairns North
3 Reid Crescent, Innisfail Estate, is among the properties for sale
Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Herberton, which was built in 1889 to service the mining district, is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
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Inside the Herberton church
Out west, the sale includes a high-set house with four bedrooms in Charters Towers, known as St Paul’s Rectory, and four adjoining lots totalling a combined 8092sq m in Pentland.
Three adjoining properties at 30–34 Macrossan Street in South Townsville are also on the market, with the combined site coming in at 3036sq m.
The site, which includes a church hall, church and a low-set dwelling is known as the St John’s Anglican Church Precinct, according to the heritage register.
30-34 Macrossan Street, South Townsville
The church was built in 1907, with the current church the third to be built on the site after the two previous ones were destroyed by cyclones.
Also for sale in Townsville is 70 Bundock Street, Belgian Gardens, which is the current home of St Mark’s Anglican Church.
St Mark’s Anglican Church is also for sale by EOI
Parishioners have launched a bid to save the historic church and war memorial site.
A timber-framed church at 8 Endeavour Road, Arcadia, which is on Magnetic Island, is also listed for sale.
The Bowen region assets include a high-set house on a 1022sq m block located within the “major centre zoning” in Bowen, and a high-set dwelling on a 921sq m site in Proserpine.
More church-owned assets will hit the market soon.
Expressions of interest for all of the currently advertised church-owned properties close at 4pm on July 16.