St Agnes Anglican Church is a heritage-listed churchyard at Ipswich Street, Esk, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.
Plans for the church were prepared in late 1888 by Brisbane diocesan architect John Hingeston Buckeridge, with working drawings following in 1889.
The building was erected in mid-1889 by local Esk contractor, sawmill proprietor and Anglican parishioner, Lars Andersen, and was dedicated on Monday 28 October 1889 by Bishop William Webber.
Webber had an understanding of ecclesiastical design and architecture generally and was responsible for bringing Buckeridge to Brisbane from London, appointing him as Diocesan Architect in 1887.
[1] The street entrance pillars were erected in honour of former parishioner and Brisbane Valley pioneer Francis Edward Bigge.
[1] St Agnes church is a weatherboard building with a steeply pitched ribbed metal gable roof with deep timber brackets to the eaves.
The building has a rectangular plan set on a later brick base, with a vestry added to the east and a porch to the north west.
This screen has a tongue and groove balustrade and decorative timber brackets forming a pointed arch in the centre.
[1] St Agnes rectory is a single-storeyed weatherboard building with a corrugated iron hipped gable roof.
The street entrance porch has a projecting gable to the verandah with decorative timber truss, finial and barge boards.
[1] St Agnes Church and rectory were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in exhibiting a number of aesthetic characteristics valued by the local community, including the intactness of the federation-era rectory, and the contribution, through scale, form and materials, of the buildings and grounds to the streetscape of Ipswich Street and to the Esk townscape.
[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.
The church and rectory have a strong association with architect JH Buckeridge, being examples of his ecclesiastical work in Queensland.