Saint Marys Church

St Mary's by using the Sea is a historical past-indexed non-denominational church at Port Douglas, Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia. It became built from 1913 to 1914. It is likewise referred to as the previous St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. It become introduced to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. St Mary's with the aid of the Sea became built in 1914 replacing an in advance Roman Catholic church at Port Douglas, which had been destroyed with the aid of the cyclone of March 1911.

Port Douglas changed into installed in 1877 as a port to provider the newly opened Hodgkinson goldfield, west of the Great Dividing Range. In the length 1877 to 1893 Port Douglas functioned often as a port for the mining hinterland and secondarily as an administrative and provider centre for the encircling developing agricultural districts. The Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of North Queensland turned into installed in 1877 and first staffed largely by Italians.

The aim become to ship missionaries a number of the Aborigines, but, while the first clergymen arrived they had been required to serve the needs of recent cities, the mining increase having brought into the vicinity many Europeans, including big numbers of Irish Catholics. In 1884 the Irish Province of the Order of Saint Augustine agreed to take on the work of the Vicariate which became suffering to serve a scattered populace of Catholics in a big region with very few monks. The first chapel in Port Douglas became established in 1878 and by means of November 1881 a church were erected under the path of Father Peter Bucas, a Breton, on land on Port Hill.