[1] Holy Trinity church was built in 1889 to serve the Anglican community in the rapidly developing mining town of Herberton and in the surrounding district.

The tin fields around Herberton and the other towns which sprang up in the district in the early 1880s proved to be the richest discovered on the Australian mainland.

In 1887 he left to set up in practice as an architect and soon gained enough work to take on William Henry Allan Munro as a junior partner.

The problem of providing pastoral care to a large and sparsely settled area led to the foundation of the Brotherhood of St Barnabas (one of the orders of the Bush Brothers).

Originally consisting only of Vaughan Williams and one other priest, it was modelled on the Brotherhood of St Andrew founded in central Queensland a few years earlier.

In the 1920s a number of improvements were made to the church and it gained several fine pieces with carving by Miss Philpott, including the baptismal font, altar and a sanctuary chair and table.

She died in 1928 and a Children's Corner chapel was created in 1929, in a section of the porch opposite the main entrance of Holy Trinity, as a memorial to her.

The gabled roof is clad with corrugated iron and a small projection at the front shelters a bell hung below the eaves.

[1] Internally, the church has king post trusses with diagonal struts and the roof is lined with timber boarding on the rake.

Walls are lined with horizontal boarding, and a shallow pointed arch frames and separates the raised sanctuary from the nave.

The church retains its pews and the baptismal font, altar and a chair and table in the sanctuary feature richly carved panels.

It was the foundation church for the Brotherhood of St Barnabas, which was formed to address the problem of reaching small and isolated communities which could not support a resident priest.