Sinnamon Memorial Uniting Church
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| Sinnamon Memorial Uniting Church | |
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| Seventeen Mile Rocks Church | |
 Sinnamon Memorial Uniting Church, 2014 | |
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| 27°32′18″S 152°57′06″E / 27.5382°S 152.9516°E | |
| Address | 675 Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, Sinnamon Park, City of Brisbane, Queensland |
| Country | Australia |
| Denomination | Uniting |
| Previous denomination | Methodist |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | Rocks Road Sinnamon Memorial Methodist Church |
| Status | Church |
| Architecture | |
| Completed | 1888 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Chamferboard; corrugated iron |
| Administration | |
| Synod | Queensland |
| Presbytery | Bremer Brisbane |
| Parish | Centenary (Middle Park) |
| Official name | Sinnamon Memorial Uniting Church, Seventeen Mile Rocks Church |
| Type | State heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600235 |
| Significant period | 1888 (fabric) 1888-1966 (historical) |
| Significant components | Furniture/fittings |
| Builders | Wilson Henry |
Sinnamon Memorial Uniting Church is a heritage-listed Uniting church at 675 Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, Sinnamon Park, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1888 by Wilson Henry. It is also known as Seventeen Mile Rocks Church. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[1]
In 1888, this building replaced a small bark and shingle chapel erected in 1880 at the corner of Goggs and Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, adjacent to the former Seventeen Mile Rocks School. The builder was Wilson Henry, a local resident and a cousin to the Sinnamon family, pioneers of the Seventeen Mile Rocks area since the mid-1860s. The new building was intended for use by the Church of England, but as the church was unable to supply a clergyman, the congregation was served by the Primitive Methodist Church of Ipswich, whose minister arrived by rowboat. By the 1950s the congregation had dwindled to sisters Edith and Isobel Sinnamon. In 1966, the western extension of Seventeen Mile Rocks Road to the new suburb of Jindalee necessitated relocation of the building, which was moved onto land donated by Hercules V. Sinnamon from the Sinnamon family's original 1865 holding. Two years later the chapel re-opened as the Rocks Road Sinnamon Memorial Methodist Church and though lacking a regular congregation, it served for occasional functions. In 1980, the church centenary was commemorated by the planting of pine trees around the perimeter. Since the Sinnamon family and their relatives had filled most church positions over the years, the building was aptly re-sited and renamed.[1]
Description
This small chamferboard building sits on concrete stumps well back from Seventeen Mile Rocks Road, on a grassed site with recent perimeter pine plantings. It has a simple rectangular plan, with a small front porch. The high-pitched gabled main roof and front porch roof were shingled originally, but these have been replaced with corrugated iron. The ceiling is lined with six inch tongue and groove boards and the walls are strengthened by two iron tie-bars. The frame, which was exposed on the inside, is now boarded and sheeted internally. Early furnishings include four silver-plated kerosene lamps with tin shades, a medium-sized harmonium and a simple pulpit of vertically jointed cedar raised on a dais with two steps on either side. Seating only sixty persons on twelve pine pews (now painted), this was a typical small rural chapel.[1]
