Dr. John Dunmore Lang, whose advice to the immigrants was to combine for Christian fellowship and worship rather than establish separate denominations.

In March 1850, the United Evangelical Church was created, combining those of Presbyterian, Baptist, and Congregational beliefs, under the ministry of the Rev.

He wrote of this period: "One of the difficulties that met us at the threshold was the impossibility of procuring, on any terms whatever, a proper place for holding meetings.

There was only one place in the town (the hall of the School of Arts) where a hundred people could be comfortably accommodated and that was occupied by the Presbyterian congregation under the charge of the Rev.C.

The dilapidated wood building overhung a dark, sluggish creek, which meandered through the centre of the town, and after tropical showers the approach to it was almost impassable.

T. Bell, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, died, and the building he had occupied was rented for a time for use for Congregational meetings.

[1] In May 1859, the congregation was ready to establish their own church building and proceeded to buy land on the corner of Wharf and Adelaide streets for £260.

[1] Charles Tiffin was the Colonial Architect and designed many of Brisbane's important buildings, many of which were also built by Joshua Jeays, e.g. Old Government House.

So, although the first church was not very large, it was considered to have an imposing structure, based on simple early English lines.

[1] Forty years later in September 1943, the ashes of his wife Mrs Wolstenholme were sent from England (where she had lived as a widow) to be buried with her husband in Toowong Cemetery.

[15] In January 1925, they purchased the property Inchcolm in Wickham Terrace with a view to demolishing it to make way for a new church building.

[18] The final services in the Wharf Street Congregational Church were held on Sunday 25 September 1927 by Rev.