In 1895, the Congregational Sunday School had 429 scholars and fifty-one teachers under the superintendence of James Clarke Cribb.

[1] George Brockwell Gill's plans provided for a number of classrooms accommodating both children and adults.

The East St elevation has a central entry portico, and a decorative gable breaks the roofline above.

The north and south walls have skillion roofs under clerestory windows, and timber stairs and entrance porticos.

The Memorial Hall is a distinctive member of a small grouping of public buildings on East St, which include the Police Station (1930s) and Old Ipswich Courthouse (1859 and 1880).

The main entrance portico to the west has series of concrete arches with keystones on brick columns under a gabled roof.

The roof is crowned with a timber and corrugated iron fleche with four gables with finials, which when erected contained a Boyles patent ventilator.

[1] The hall is an impressive two-storey height space with exposed timber trusses, clerestory lighting, a hardwood floor, and rendered masonry walls.

The mezzanine sits behind three arches springing from pilasters in the western wall, and has a wrought iron balustrade.

The stairs have finely turned and carved balustrades, striped timbers to the soffits, and meet an arched window with coloured glass at the half landing.

[2] Uniting Church Central Memorial Hall was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 July 1993 having satisfied the following criteria.

It exhibits a range of aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, including the fine detailing and rich use of materials of the exterior; the contribution to the townscape as a distinctive and substantial decorated brick building amongst a group of public buildings on East St; the impressive spatial quality of the hall and entrance vestibule; the decorative detailing of major internal elements; and the fine craft-work of the stairs and stained glass windows.

As the Sunday school and hall for over ninety years, it has a special association with the Congregational (now Uniting Church) community of Ipswich.

[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.

It has a special association with the life and work of a number of people associated with the life of the church, in particular James C Cribb, Joseph Hargreaves, and Alexander Nichol, who served as Superintendents of the Sunday School; and members of the church, who served during the First World War, whose names are recorded on the roll of honour.