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The courtyard area has been developed as a covered greenhouse linked to the wide verandahs around the courtyard. Attached to the house by a covered way is a separate timber building, also with exterior studding. The building is raised on concrete stumps and has a gabled roof clad in corrugated iron.
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is particularly well known, partly because of his 35 years in office. Feetham was an attractive and eccentric personality, born in
England in 1873 as the son of a vicar. Intelligent and well-educated himself, he took an interest in the provision of education which was to be a focus for much of his
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at the rear. It is set on low stumps and has steeply pitched gabled roofs clad in corrugated iron and topped with large decorative ventilators. In form it consists of two large wings parallel to each other and linked by a transverse section at the front. A wide passage through the centre of the
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and vernacular architecture; perhaps appropriate for an
English church transplanted to tropical Australia. It also responds well to the climate with wide verandahs right around the house to obtain the best of both breeze and view. A terrace at the front of the house has a lawn with trees and
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The Bishop's Lodge, as the first and subsequent, purpose-built, residence for the
Anglican Bishop of North Queensland, is important in demonstrating the pattern of establishment and growth of the Anglican Church in North Queensland in the late 19th century.
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and St James Church was constructed with a vicarage beside it. The church was opened on 1 October By 1877 a school, St James
English Church School, was in operation and in 1878 the Diocese of North Queensland was created, with the new bishop,
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in 1971, followed by extensive repair work. In the 1970s a bathroom was added on the south west verandah and the
Feetham chapel was created on the north east verandah by glassing in this area. This has preserved a view across
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in 1865. It grew quickly as a supply centre and by 1873 the port was receiving international as well as coastal traffic. By 1880 Townsville was the port for several major goldfields and had opened the first stage of the
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and requested the appointment of an incumbent to the parish of
Townsville. This was accepted by the Reverend James Adams. On 24 December 1872, land for a church was purchased at the foot of
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The verandahs at the sides and centre front are also supported decorated timber posts and those at the front corners of the building have clusters of bracketed posts. The verandah
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for liturgical commemoration and styled "Blessed John Oliver Feetham". In the 1970s a memorial chapel was established on the verandah where he died.
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linking the front and rear verandahs, and effectively divides the house into two parts, with bedrooms on one side and living areas on the other.
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