Following shortly after Tuffnell's visit, Reverend Thomas Jones arrived at Rockhampton, becoming the popular pioneer Anglican rector.

Jones encouraged his congregation to raise sufficient funds in 1862 to allow construction of a small timber church to be built on what later became the site of the present Cathedral Hall.

[1] The St Paul's Cathedral Hall, a superb extant Federation style red brick building with wide verandas supported by turned wooden posts, was completed c. 1900.

This new brick building was initially utilised by the Anglican Church at Rockhampton in the establishment of the Saint Paul's Day School which opened in 1901, and continued at this location until the end of 1912, after which these premises became known as the Parish Hall.

Robertson was a Sydney architect and surveyor (c.1890-96), who moved to Rockhampton where he married Elizabeth Frances Leighton on 26 April 1896.

Robertson began a successful architectural practice in Rockhampton at East Street from January 1897 until 1905 when he returned to Sydney.

Another noted work by Robertson includes Nelson House (1910) in Sydney, which was the first self-supporting steel framed building erected in Australia.

[1] St Paul's Anglican Cathedral Hall was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 June 2000 having satisfied the following criteria.