[5] From that time until the 1860s, the area south of the river that would become Woolloongabba remained an undeveloped stretch of wetland known as One Mile Swamp.

Advertisements for the allotments cited the benefits of an uninterrupted supply of fresh water from One Mile Swamp; the development of transportation and mail routes through the area to places like Cleveland and Ipswich;[6] and the promise of a bridge across the Brisbane River.

[8] In 1869, an allotment at Clarence Town Estate, atop a hill at Woolloongabba was donated to the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane by the Reverend Robert Gregory Creyke (born 9 June 1820, Yorkshire – died 11 February 1889, Cleveland, Queensland).

Its meetings and services were held in local buildings such as the Buffalo Hotel on the corner of Ipswich road and Hawthorne Street.

Reverend Simmonds, Rector of Woolloongabba Parish, in which the gaol stands, attended to one of the men, an Aboriginal man called Jacky.

[24] The priest of Holy Trinity Woolloongabba, then Reverend W. P. Oakeley, also attended a condemned Aboriginal man called Billy Broom at Boggo Road Gaol on Monday 11 June 1900.

[25] Parish life around the turn of the century was busy; there were services with large congregations (a record 154 communicants on Sunday 12 April 1903), weddings, social gatherings, concerts and activities such as amateur dramatics, debating and cricket and fund raising events.

[26][27][28] However, on 28 April 1900, James Amos Drevesen (born 1879 – died 1954, Queensland), a 21 year old married man who worked carting produce from wharf to market, was diagnosed with Bubonic plague.

As authorities put in place quarantine measures, this street leading to Holy Trinity Woolloongabba was barricaded.

[33] The Holy Trinity Women's Guild along with many other groups, delivered a wreath to the Brisbane mayoress at the town hall.

[35] In the first months of the Great War little changed at Holy Trinity Woolloongabba: Sunday services, weddings, fetes and fundraising continued.

[41] In the 1920s, fund raising for a new church building at Holy Trinity Woolloongabba recommenced with a system of long-term subscriptions.

[48] On Sunday 19 June 1949, a war memorial bell and belfry were dedicated at Holy Trinity Woolloongabba by Archbishop Halse.

[50] In April 1950, one of several bamboo crosses sent from Japan was placed in Holy Trinity Woolloongabba to symbolise Japanese repentance for the murder of Australian missionaries in Papua New Guinea during World War II.

The crosses bear the hand written words of the Anglican Bishop of Tokyo, Maekawa, "Concerning God, repentance; Concerning man, reconciliation".

[1] The plan comprised a prominent tower, vestry, entrance porch and nave with side aisles and octagonal chancel.

Finishes throughout the church included face brick internal walls with black tuckpointing, timber panelled ceilings and external roughcast render.

[1] The Spanish Mission revival characteristics include the stucco external finish, terracotta cordova roof tiles, barley twist columns, and heavy timber joinery.

[1] The church has a traditional cruciform floor plan, with shallow transepts, an octagonal chancel at the eastern end and a dominant tower projecting from the north western corner.

At the base of the tower, on the northern face is a one storeyed semicircular projection, with a half dome roof clad with painted copper tiles.

The principal entrance to the church is via a centrally located double timber door with circular motifs on each of five panels on the exterior aspect.

The door is protected by a small open porch, which has a gabled awning clad with cordova tiles and a vaulted concrete soffit supported on substantial columns with Composite order capitals.

Within the central bay, above the entrance, is a row of six round arched window openings divided by thin twisted columns and glazed with coloured glass leadlights.

[1] The side aisles of the northern and southern facades of the building are lined with paired round arched openings divided by twisted columns with Composite order capitals and flanked by panels with dog tooth mouldings.

Above the height of the side aisles are taller paired round arched openings aligned with the lower windows, but glazed with two tones of green leadlighting.

[1] The eastern end of the church features a number of single round arched openings glazed with stained glass panels.

The side aisles are further divided by round archways defining each of the bays of the nave and springing from the compound columns of the principal arcades.

Also in the sanctuary area are two early patterned stained glass panels in round arched openings within the raked walls behind the altar.

A large concrete pulpit, to which access is provided by three steps, is found in the choir section of the church and is decorated in the manner of the exterior of the building, painted white and featuring the repeated arch moulding as a cornice.

[1] In 1956 after the original rectory was destroyed the church acquired an adjoining property with an early house from the Sawyer family.