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NTQD4437 St John's Church, Mundoolan, Tamborine, south-east Queensland

A family memorial chapel built near the graves of the first Collins generation in 1900-02, to honour that generation, has the solidity contributed by the rough drressed honey coloured sandstone (quarried from a paddock less than a kilometre away) that is not common in Queensland rural churches. The tower, added in 1915, adds to this with its Norman-style keep. The walls are buttressed.

 

The family ias associated with the North Australian Pastoral Company, and one of the daughters married into the Fraser family that produced Malcolm Fraser, prime minister 1975-83.

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Uploaded on July 20, 2011
Taken in January 1959